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snurriIrony overload: I'm feeling shy about posting my thoughts on shyness. I'll get there, though; probably not 'til next week, on account of I'm going to be traveling for the next few days, but yeah. I'm having thoughts.
I've been on record as not being much of a James Baldwin fan, but if you can find a copy of his story "Sonny's Blues" you ought to read it. I'm working my way through a Norton Anthology of Short Fiction that I must have bought for an English class a decade and a half ago, and that story had me nearly in tears, it's so damn beautiful.
"Don't Tempt Me" AKA Sin noticias de Dios is a film with a clever concept and a stellar cast that ultimately delivers very little. Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril play a devil and an angle struggling for the soul of a mortal boxer who's neither likable nor interesting. The Heaven/Hell struggle is far more interesting than the story on earth--Heaven is a 1940's black-and-white Paris, overseen by God's bombshell proxy Fanny Ardant, while Hell is America, run by besieged CEO Gael García Bernal. This film, though, was written for Abril and Cruz, and it shows. They get all the meaty lines and most of the sexual tension, leaving nothing for the film's linchpin, the soul everyone wants. That, and the easily-guessed but little-explored twist of Cruz's character, made this a disappointment.
I think the league ought to investigate Roger Clemens for throwing Kryptonite. Something ain't right, there.
Finally, a last-ditch call; anyone reading this going to be in Chicago on Thursday, and want to come along to the Police concert? Due to bad planning on my part I've got an extra ticket. Speak up if you want it.
I've been on record as not being much of a James Baldwin fan, but if you can find a copy of his story "Sonny's Blues" you ought to read it. I'm working my way through a Norton Anthology of Short Fiction that I must have bought for an English class a decade and a half ago, and that story had me nearly in tears, it's so damn beautiful.
"Don't Tempt Me" AKA Sin noticias de Dios is a film with a clever concept and a stellar cast that ultimately delivers very little. Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril play a devil and an angle struggling for the soul of a mortal boxer who's neither likable nor interesting. The Heaven/Hell struggle is far more interesting than the story on earth--Heaven is a 1940's black-and-white Paris, overseen by God's bombshell proxy Fanny Ardant, while Hell is America, run by besieged CEO Gael García Bernal. This film, though, was written for Abril and Cruz, and it shows. They get all the meaty lines and most of the sexual tension, leaving nothing for the film's linchpin, the soul everyone wants. That, and the easily-guessed but little-explored twist of Cruz's character, made this a disappointment.
I think the league ought to investigate Roger Clemens for throwing Kryptonite. Something ain't right, there.
Finally, a last-ditch call; anyone reading this going to be in Chicago on Thursday, and want to come along to the Police concert? Due to bad planning on my part I've got an extra ticket. Speak up if you want it.
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Re: the police
Date: 2007-07-05 08:27 pm (UTC)It seems like there's a lot of interest in the shyness thing. Will have to collect my thoughts on it.