Food, music, film, & what's fermenting in the city. Borbs and floofs in season. Joint account from #writer Nora Maynard and #composer / #musician Chester Jankowski. Posts here by Chester unless noted otherwise.
Terrific program by the Junction Trio at Carnegie Hall tonight. The Zorn piece was written for them and they played it beautifully. Watch out for these kids!
Sorry to see that Daniel Dennett has died. I was just thinking about him the other day and how he was the only member of that “new atheist” group to not turn out to be a total jerk. I knew him from way before that as I was doing a lot of reading in philosophy of mind in my early undergrad days in the ‘80s. I think I read Brainstorms right after G.E.B.
OK, The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has a great cast and all, but wow Purple Noon (1960) is, I think, the better film, and has Alain Delon in his first major film role.
And I only just* realized that the TeeVee show Ripley that folks are talking about—shockingly filmed in, gasp, black and white—is the same story.
@SRDas I had the window open and could hear the guy yelling, "TAXI! TAAAAAAXXXIIIIII!"
It reminded me of this turn-of-the-century TV commercial for a car service in nyc. It had a guy screaming for a taxi, then cut to 4 SATC-type women talking about all the places their car service driver would take them.
The last one was "sometimes... he just takes me home," followed by "Oooh, girl..." We always used to cringe-laugh at that.
Hey Mastodon friends, just want to say you are all appreciated! Thank you all for making this a great place to hang. You know who you are but if you don’t, I mean you too!
