March 13, 2013
-
The Daily News1 Into the four a.m. watching Streetcar.
2 Marlon Brando eating chicken and making a pig out of himself.
3 So Stanislavski.
4 Great movie.
5 Moving On, Part One: I love calling movies movies.
6 Ironically I don’t often go to the movies.
7 No time.
8 I watch old movies in the middle of the night. I don’t usually watch them from beginning to end, because I never know when the dog’s cold nose and jingle/jangle awakening will open my eyes.
9 I often Google the plots.
10 It ain’t quite the same, but I do get to see a lot of pictures.
11 Pictures.
12 That’s what people in Hollywood call them.
13 What’s great about Streetcar is that very much of the original Broadway cast was retained in the movie.
14 Man.
15 These people have issues.
16 When I went through college majoring in English, I majored in pondering about reality vs. illusion.
17 Running theme of all the professors at the time.
18 Running theme of life, I imagine.
19 Meh.
20 I just try to stay a length-and-a half ahead of reality.
21 I embrace illusion.
22 It’s healthier in so many ways.
23 Moving on, Part the Second: Last week I went out to lunch with my family and ordered an ice cream sundae.
24 I’ve been on this health food diet lately, so it was fun breaking away from all of that.
25 I don’t think I’ve had an ice cream sundae in ten years.
26 I have this illusion that I’m constantly on a health kick.
27 I’ve been obsessed with eating weird stuff like blueberries and kale.
28 I’ve a confession to make.
29 I don’t like kale. How politically incorrect is that? It is bitter and interrupts the flavor of my trendy health foods.
30 All the rest of the trendy health foods I like.
31 It’s difficult to eat well, because first you need vegetables that don’t taste like poison. That’s almost an impossibility.
32 I lean towards farmer’s markets and Trader Joe’s, but I know I’d be better off having organic stuff delivered.
33 I really wish there was a company that could deliver ice cream sundaes.
35 Yeesh.
36 Moving on, Part the Thoid: I wonder if I should make Wednesdays ice cream sundae days.
37 Brando just shook up a beer and let it fountain over his head.
38 Quintessential Stanley Kawalski.
39 He’d do better having some kale and blueberries.
40 When did it ever come to this?
41 Moving on, Part Four: Vivien Leigh plays crazy with the best of them.
42 Brando plays a great healthy slob.
43 You could smell the beer and garlic coming out of his face.
44 Vivien Leigh just hopped on one of those old telephone’s shaped like a black daffodil.
45 I wonder what Streetcar would look like with cell phones and computers.
46 Somewhere in all of this we’ve lost something.
47 Maybe I watch these movies so that I could look through a window into the past.
48 I don’t want to live there.
49 I do enjoy watching it though. I’m an old fool looking through a window into the past. It’s an strange image. It is a reality.
50 Moving on, Part Five: I heard a radio show talking about how every television show, movie, and anything else is flying through outer space. I used to think about that when I was a kid.
51 I used to goof on how the light from the different stars is showing us different times. The light from each star is reaching us at historically different moments. Likewise all the light coming off the Earth is flying through space; each moment racing to infinity.
52 Somewhere in the far reaches of the universe, some space alien is probably watching old I Love Lucy’s.
53 Somewhere even further, some culture might be watching Streetcar, and Blanche DuBois. Somewhere in vast space someone must have technology better than ours.
54 Somewhere.
55 Time to leave.
56 See you again.
57 Peace.
~H~
