April 28, 2005
Ed Witten in anti-Filibuster protest
link; also this at Not Even Wrong.
This isn't much to start a meme with, but still, I thought I'd give it a shot:
I don't have a bullhorn, but I've always wanted one.
[If you've got a copy of the Griffiths Elementary Particles book, take a picture of yourself Frist-Filibustering with it and send me a pointer to it (or a copy of it)....I'll add it to this page (or link to you), or whatever...]
Palindromes
link A Solondz movie—it doesn't look so good to me, after seeing the trailer. As corroborative evidence, I offer these two Solondz quotations from the magazine FLM ("The Voice of Independent Film," Spring 2005, pg 8):
(1) One of the first questions people tend to ask me after seeing Palindromes is, "Why did you cast so many actors in the role of Aviva, instead of just one?" I suppose if hadn't made this movie it would be my first question as well...
(2) ...for I remember when they changed actors playing Darrin on TV's Bewitched: one season it was one actor, the next another, and it didn't seem to faze Samantha at all...
Dave Eggers and Friends
Cameraphone photo taken before Dave Eggers (with Spike Jonze and David O Russell) showed two interesting documentaries at Dinkelspiel auditorium on the Stanford campus.
Spike Jonze, who seemed to be very uncomfortable in the spotlight, squirmed when Eggers asked him how he selects projects.
"I don't know, how would *you* answer that?" Eggers couldn't think of a good answer, either.
In mid-2000, Jonze made a great rough-cut documentary meant to illustrate what Al Gore is really like. Gore liked "Being John Malkovich," and let Jonze carry a handheld consumer video camera into his ranch in Tennessee (I think that's where it was) to shoot candid scenes with his family. It's a thirteen-minute film that was supposed to be used at the Democratic convention, but instead was shelved. Gore comes off very well in it, sitting around the dinner table being teased by his daugthers. Eggers asked Jonze why it was never used. "I don't know," he said, "I had a chance to show it on Nightline, but was finishing up another project. I feel kind of bad about that." [I'm paraphrasing, but that was the idea.]
[link (stanford lively arts) and link (mcsweeneys.net)]
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