P.S. I'm a Kevin Bacon 3.
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ffloThe more interesting follow-up is that that film my mentor was in was also Jennifer Lopez's first film credit. In 1986. How 'bout that.
But I was in my film with the woman who was in My Little Girl with Mary Stuart Masterson, who was in a film called Digging to China with Kevin Bacon.
You know, though, we've got the spirit of the Kevin Bacon thing wrong, the way we do it. The big t'do about the Kevin Bacon thing is how hard it is to more than a 6. Like, a really high number, or no number, would be what'd make you exceptional. Unless you hadn't been in any movies.
Kinda like how we got turned around on Andy Warhol's point about the 15 minutes. We seem to think of that as our allotment or our moment of fame that we're entitled to, maybe, even, instead of an absurd reduction of the way things were going, which is (at least) what I think he was getting at.
Moreover, it's like this thing I tried writing to Jeopardy! champion Amy What's-Her-Name, after her run, because it'd been mentioned as an interest of her that she was into those marble race games that you can watch hours and hours and hours of on YouTube. I'd seen 'em, and kinda got the fascination, but what I tried writing to her about is that we're sorta wrong about the winning marble, cuz it's really the last marble to finish who's the strong one. You know? That's the marble that resisted gravity the longest, the strongest. The fastest is just the one that slid, unresisting, most easily to its domination---the one that fought least hard of all of 'em.
Amy What's-Her-Name didn't write back.
But I was in my film with the woman who was in My Little Girl with Mary Stuart Masterson, who was in a film called Digging to China with Kevin Bacon.
You know, though, we've got the spirit of the Kevin Bacon thing wrong, the way we do it. The big t'do about the Kevin Bacon thing is how hard it is to more than a 6. Like, a really high number, or no number, would be what'd make you exceptional. Unless you hadn't been in any movies.
Kinda like how we got turned around on Andy Warhol's point about the 15 minutes. We seem to think of that as our allotment or our moment of fame that we're entitled to, maybe, even, instead of an absurd reduction of the way things were going, which is (at least) what I think he was getting at.
Moreover, it's like this thing I tried writing to Jeopardy! champion Amy What's-Her-Name, after her run, because it'd been mentioned as an interest of her that she was into those marble race games that you can watch hours and hours and hours of on YouTube. I'd seen 'em, and kinda got the fascination, but what I tried writing to her about is that we're sorta wrong about the winning marble, cuz it's really the last marble to finish who's the strong one. You know? That's the marble that resisted gravity the longest, the strongest. The fastest is just the one that slid, unresisting, most easily to its domination---the one that fought least hard of all of 'em.
Amy What's-Her-Name didn't write back.
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Date: Feb. 17th, 2022 03:15 am (UTC)