"In the hard-driving, competitive, ruthless materialistic world of the Gilded Age, to be unselfish suggested not purity but a lack of self, a lack of capacity for grappling with reality, a lack of assertion, of masculinity"--Anti-Intellectualism in American Life [Sound familiar?]
Dreamed of the song "Bobby Shaftoe"; going to sleep on the floor in a house where Robert Altman was about to start filming Short Cuts (a movie I haven't seen) and ending up with a non-speaking cameo in the movie, filmed lying on the floor.
Moira and I were going to look at the start of the series Twin Peaks on DVD, but it turned out that when I'd placed the whole first season on our zip.ca list I'd omitted the pilot. So I placed the pilot on the list and made it ASAP, and we'll keep this DVD till we've seen that one.
Saw "The Home Invaders," a particularly disturbing episode of Miami Vice.
Dinner was spaghetti.
Saw the Frank Miller-Robert Rodriguez comic book movie Sin City at the Royal. Stylishly paranoid, it's pretty cool in an unpleasant way. Mickey Rourke has an amusing "hard-boiled" role. Women are victims or deadly whores (or often both).
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