Sunday, January 29, 2006
Proof that there is a God!
In other news, I went to see my Mom today. She was fit and good and is planning parties. One will be on 22nd April, which is her 71st Birthday, and the other will be on 4th August which would have been her and my Dad's 50th wedding anniversary. She has been a Pynchon for 50 years. It's a long time. Apparently my Mom wants some outrageous bling as a Birthday gift this year. My Mom also told me that she has placed an order for a funky walking stick. This is a turn up, because not too long ago she told me that she would rather "kill herself" than have to use a stick. She claimed today that she did not remember saying that.
My Brother has bought himself a bluetooth phone and was eager to share some of the pornographic clips he had accumulated from his friends. All pretty typical stuff really. What disturbed me is that I could have told him the name of every actor and actress in the clips that he showed me. It's not good, is it?
This afternoon I went to see Michael Haneke's "Hidden" or "Cache". Michael Haneke made one of my favourite films of all time, "Funny Games". In my opinion, in it's depiction of cold and blank faced evil, "Funny Games" has yet to be bettered. Lorraine was very upset by "Funny Games". We saw it about a year after we started going out together, and she told me that if I ever took her to see anything like it ever again that it would be the end of us. True story.
"Hidden" is about a TV literary show host who starts to receive secretly filmed videotapes showing his house and himself and his wife coming and going. At first it is just annoying and disturbing and then the situation starts to escalate. I quite liked "Hidden", but it is a frustrating film. Slow, measured and deliberate and it has an oblique ending that will get you shouting at the screen in anger as everything is left open to your own interpretation. I read somewhere that Hollywood are planning a remake.
Fuck, no. Please.
In other news, I went to see my Mom today. She was fit and good and is planning parties. One will be on 22nd April, which is her 71st Birthday, and the other will be on 4th August which would have been her and my Dad's 50th wedding anniversary. She has been a Pynchon for 50 years. It's a long time. Apparently my Mom wants some outrageous bling as a Birthday gift this year. My Mom also told me that she has placed an order for a funky walking stick. This is a turn up, because not too long ago she told me that she would rather "kill herself" than have to use a stick. She claimed today that she did not remember saying that.
My Brother has bought himself a bluetooth phone and was eager to share some of the pornographic clips he had accumulated from his friends. All pretty typical stuff really. What disturbed me is that I could have told him the name of every actor and actress in the clips that he showed me. It's not good, is it?
This afternoon I went to see Michael Haneke's "Hidden" or "Cache". Michael Haneke made one of my favourite films of all time, "Funny Games". In my opinion, in it's depiction of cold and blank faced evil, "Funny Games" has yet to be bettered. Lorraine was very upset by "Funny Games". We saw it about a year after we started going out together, and she told me that if I ever took her to see anything like it ever again that it would be the end of us. True story.
"Hidden" is about a TV literary show host who starts to receive secretly filmed videotapes showing his house and himself and his wife coming and going. At first it is just annoying and disturbing and then the situation starts to escalate. I quite liked "Hidden", but it is a frustrating film. Slow, measured and deliberate and it has an oblique ending that will get you shouting at the screen in anger as everything is left open to your own interpretation. I read somewhere that Hollywood are planning a remake.
Fuck, no. Please.
# posted by Pynchon @ 10:42 pm 
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What the hell is a funky walking stick?!
Um, as for your question about being able to name all the porn actors, no it isn't good... Oh well, it's a hobby at least! :-)
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Um, as for your question about being able to name all the porn actors, no it isn't good... Oh well, it's a hobby at least! :-)
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