The crazy sleeplessness of the worried for which there is no tonic costs the nation untold dollars in sloppy underproduction. Surely somebody has done a study. Stress and productivity must certainly have an inverse ratio. Why then do employers believe otherwise? Maybe because stress-free potheads are not good producers either. And surely someone has conducted a study about that.
I watched a portion of "Shaft" last night on HBO. Does anybody want to go back to the '70s? Do a 70's movie weekend. Listen to the voices of men in all of them (except Woody Allen films which were not macho at all). Men were expected to be confrontational most of the time. Then there were the touching moments when they were tender and blue. There was always a woman to understand them. Just look at a list of the best films of the 1970s and you'll see what I mean (here's the first list that comes up on a Google search).
Then look at the '80s. More emotion. More women. More comedy (again, here's the first list that comes up on Google).
Take a look/listen to the '90s (list).
A swiftly changing end to a century.
"Shaft" was just awful.
I'm calling on Q to inform us about music of the same era. I'll be interested in his take.
Formed by one century, deformed by the next. If you want to know what the '50s and '60s sounded like, just watch "Mad Men." They got it right.
Puss in Boots and I are quarreling. Last night. apparently, she went into my bathroom and pissed on the rug. She is mad because she feels I am not living my life for her. The more attention I give her, the more demanding and complaining she becomes. When I saw the rug, I got her and rubbed her nose in it and told her, "bad cat, bad cat," and put her outside. I let her back in, but she is not coming around. My job is bad enough. I need this?
Marlowe had a wonderful relationship with his cat in "The Long Goodbye" (now there's a '70s movie for the ages). It was much like his relationship with everybody in the movie. I would like to be cool like that.
Honey, you ARE cool like that!
ReplyDeleteNice to see that Magnolia scored high. I caught it back when I still had cable TV, tuned in right at the scene with the frogs, watched it in utter amazement to the end. I forget how long I had to wait to finally see it from the beginning. Great soundtrack with Aimee Mann.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a28kY1-s-Vc
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The version i sent you is different from the link above. I guess she recorded it twice. I prefer the other version but your link won't play.
ReplyDeleteA, I haven't thought of Magnolia in forever. It was strange, I remember. I will go back and watch it again as soon as I can.
ReplyDeleteQ, The link works. I've played it on both an Apple and a Dell computer from the blog.
Yes, it was very strange. I thought at first it had been directed by Altman but it's by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Anderson has a new one coming out in September, The Master, with Philip Seymour Hoffman again.