Feb 01
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Berlioz - Requiem (Agnus Dei)

I finally saw Tree of Life and I was worried about watching it because Terrence Malick has made my favourite movies and I didn’t want to be disappointed. But I loved it so much. So so so much. Afterwards was like when you start coming down and everything feels ordinary and it is horrible and everything was just so incredible a few minutes ago and why can’t you go back there and you sleep for days because it’s unbearable to have there and here right up against each other. I want to watch it again in a place with better colour and sound quality. I’ve watched the trailers on my pretty monitors and with headphones a million times for work and community cinema, while a nice idea, isn’t a very good place to see all that colour and hear all those sounds. It should feel like someone breathing on you.

It also made me even happier that the TSO is doing Brahms’s 4th Symphony in February.

LA Times article about the music in the film

Jan 31
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History – Film Trailer

I want to see this.

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newyorker: The Story of a Suicide He talked about Tyler’s senior year in high school. “I would characterize him as a child growing up,” he said. “He was getting more into being fashion-conscious. Now, this kid, he had to dress for orchestra—since he was seven, he was wearing suits and ties. But he was getting more trendy, in the last year or so.” Jane Clementi recalled that, not long before his death, Tyler had bought a spectacular new pair of glasses—bright green on the inside of the stems. His father said, “He was definitely trying to express himself.” They never saw any sign of depression, and can’t even see it retrospectively. “As a parent, what it says to me is that what you think you know, you don’t know,” Joseph Clementi said. “And that’s a hard thing, because we all think, I know what my kid’s up to. You don’t.” On the night Jane Clementi learned that Tyler was gay, she said, “I told him not to hurt himself.” Not long before, a girl from his school had committed suicide. “We had talked about it briefly that summer, and for some reason that thought came to mind. And all I said was ‘Don’t hurt yourself,’ and he looked me right in the eye and he laughed, and said, ‘I would never do anything like that.’ ” - In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations: http://nyr.kr/AeSgrV

newyorker:

The Story of a Suicide

He talked about Tyler’s senior year in high school. “I would characterize him as a child growing up,” he said. “He was getting more into being fashion-conscious. Now, this kid, he had to dress for orchestra—since he was seven, he was wearing suits and ties. But he was getting more trendy, in the last year or so.” Jane Clementi recalled that, not long before his death, Tyler had bought a spectacular new pair of glasses—bright green on the inside of the stems. His father said, “He was definitely trying to express himself.”

They never saw any sign of depression, and can’t even see it retrospectively. “As a parent, what it says to me is that what you think you know, you don’t know,” Joseph Clementi said. “And that’s a hard thing, because we all think, I know what my kid’s up to. You don’t.”

On the night Jane Clementi learned that Tyler was gay, she said, “I told him not to hurt himself.” Not long before, a girl from his school had committed suicide. “We had talked about it briefly that summer, and for some reason that thought came to mind. And all I said was ‘Don’t hurt yourself,’ and he looked me right in the eye and he laughed, and said, ‘I would never do anything like that.’ ”

- In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations: http://nyr.kr/AeSgrV

(Source: newyorker.com)

Jan 26
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Unless you want to talk about cats or horses I’m useless to you right now.

Jan 23
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Jose Feliciano - Twist & Shout