Again...Again...Again

Here is an interesting piece by BBC radio on Phillip K. Dick who spent the last part of his life trying to figure out if he had, while in pain, experienced God. It’s short, but illuminating.

The Robot mentioned in the piece.

Spending the next two weeks tearing PROMISED LAND apart again. It needs to move faster and be nastier. I’ve been writing it like it was a FOX mini-series, or a made for SCI-FI movie. Whole sections have to go now. It needs to come sooner and more like a punch than a slap. But, it also needs to be smarter. Lets hope I can channel someone smart to help with this bit.

Outside the wind has picked up. From where I sit I can see the trees being pushed back and forth. One of them seems incapable of surviving, even though I’m sure it will. You can hear the wind before it hits, rolling across the mountains and into the valley as though water rushing from a broken dam trying to lap back on stolen shores. It comes in waves, and then recedes back.

Films from 2005 I saw and liked: (No particular order, and obviously limited recently to my forays into town)

ALL SHOULD SEE:
Sideways
Syriana
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Crash
The Aristicrats
ALSO GOOD:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Vanity Fair
A Very Long Engagement
The Aviator
Baadasssss!
PERSONAL GENRE FAVORITES:
Primer
Serenity
Mirrormask
Batman Begins
Sin CIty
2046 (Genre only by Sci-Fi elements and not for everyone so it goes here)
Harry Potter: and the Goblet of Fire
Kung Fu Hustle
WISH I"D SEEN (will see on DVD or in theatre)
Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)
A History of Violence
Broken flowers
Junebug
Lord Of War
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Mysterious Skin
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride


There were many I have yet to see. Some I want to still see and some I plan to avoid like the plague. Don't have my list of films I rented and saw, but there are a few more. There were probably a number of foreign films that I never heard of that were good this year. But, we only get so many.