we rip up ivy to plant impatiens

[fflo]

I've been thinking about that line, and the story of it. Ask me someday and I'll tell you. I've also been thinking, for a while, about blues drumming, on the very absolute last-nanosec-or-even-later tail end of the beat. Tell you about that, too, sometime, if you like.

Tonight after The Pirate (bizarro 1948 Judy Garland musical at the Mich) I came home to Truly Madly Deeply on DVD. Glad I hadn't known it was the same bloke wot made The [Piece of Crap] English Patient, for that knowledge might have inhibited my openness to it. This Juliet Stevenson, and her face---wow. And now my head is also listening to "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" while it floats back to the duet of the main players, in the true climax of the film, bouncing lines from what turns out indeed to be Pablo Neruda, but not one of the Twenty Love Poems. Yes: a movie with a poem for its dramatic peak; how about that.

I wonder how I'd have taken in the film, had I seen it when it came out, in 1991. What an entirely different life it was then. Even in this rubble I am so much stronger, sounder, fuller, more alive than 15 years ago, or 10. Or 20, or 30.

Comments

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

What a great post, Truly Madly Deeply being one of my least favourite films notwithstanding!

So what's with the blues drumming story? I want to know. And the story of the line. And what's all this about rubble?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

So what do you hate about it most? I started out to say "So do you hate its (a)..., (b)..., or (c)..." but thought I'd not be so presumptuous after all.

No time just now for the other stuff. But stay tuned!

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

Mostly it's the horrible middle class ponce type people. I imagine they are sweet and quirky to an outsider, but I have to live amongst people like this and they get on my nerves quite a bit.

Tough talk today!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found myself wondering what the cultural context of the setting was---thought it might be bourge-y, like the 'burbs of cities I've known around here. I think there was a reference in it somewhere to an area I had those associations with---could it have been the place where the office is in The Office?

Gotta just get my ass over there and check things out some time.

[groovesinorbit]

I think that's the best I've heard you sound (or read you write) in a year. Go you. Yeah, the blues drumming technique. Gotta love it. What are your thoughts on the matter?

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Any association with The [Piece of Crap] English Patient inhibits my openness to it! You know how I feel about the aforementioned film!

I read this entry yesterday, and I was able to restrain myself, but I am unable to stay totally calm at the very mention of that "piece of crap"! Okay, I'm not going to get started. . . .

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Seems kind counselor dislikes that drivel as well! And disclaimerwill does, too. Vehemently. And somebody else I talked to about it recently, t'boot, seems to me.

Lookin' cool there, btw, S... I shoulda just given you that hat & those specs that day.