Special husband has been playing Ghostbusters on PS3 recently and admitted that it's a bit boring. We're now watching the movie on dvd. I can't help thinking that if this movie were made today, it'd be amovie about like, the psychological consequences of containing ghosts - you know, to like take all these spirits and lock them in a vault. In any event, it's true that they just don't make songs to go along with movies like that anymore.
Last week I saw a lovely play at the Steppenwolf called
UP by Bridget Carpenter. It's based partly on
this guy and partly on
this guy, but what I took away was that sad but true reality that you can't escape our socio-economic paradigm. Unless you like, move to a commune or something. Or buy a farm in Minnesota and live off the grid. I figure I'd last about three months on a farm.
Last week I saw a lovely play at the Steppenwolf called UP by Bridget Carpenter. It's based partly on this guy and partly on this guy, but what I took away was that sad but true reality that you can't escape our socio-economic paradigm. Unless you like, move to a commune or something. Or buy a farm in Minnesota and live off the grid. I figure I'd last about three months on a farm.
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Whenever I think about that kind of stunt, I always think about this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Antonio_de_Carli
"...that sad but true reality that you can't escape our socio-economic paradigm."
In which way do you mean this? (1) That we can't escape our heritage, that America is surprisingly class-bound and from generation to generation we tend to have the same class of jobs/lifestyles as our parents? or (2) We are bound to our identities and that no matter what bold actions we take to "lose" them we end up being the same anyway- [i.e. the classic noir example of the man who almost gets killed, leaves his wife and family in order to live his life to the fullest, but ends up just recreating his suburban life in another city]? or (3) that the capitalist-consumerist-spectacular society coopts and corrupts all of our values, until everything will have a pricetag?
Thanks for keeping the blog love alive!
3 months!!!!...I thinking it wouldn't take that long!
Amen Indiana Fan- I'm glad about 4 of my friends are still blogging- not just FBing. I saw a little British indy film about the first guy and his law chair. You should Netflix it- it was good. I wonder who used the title first- this playwrite or Pixar? Either way, you insipre me to want to go to the live theatre more.
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