Monday Questionnaire
My, how things change Edition
1. Who used to be good and isn't good anymore?
2. Name something you care significantly less about than you did five years ago.
3. What is the latest indication you've noticed that the culture is going to hell?
posted by Eric @ 11:14 AM
5 Comments:
Wooo! Optimistic way to start the new year, Eric.
1. Michael Jackson used to be good, but is not so good anymore. At all. Sadly.
2. Five years ago, I was much more concerned with fighting The Man. Now I'm not sure who The Man is. Because I just started a corporation, I suspect that I qualify as The Man, actually.
3. Heidi Fleiss is opening a brothel for women clientele outside of Las Vegas. Men are begging her for jobs. Gross. Like, totally gross.
1. It would be a wild overstatement to say they aren't good anymore, but both Cameron Crowe and Woody Allen made movies that disappointed me greatly this year, and because that's never happened before, I feel compelled to record it. If those two can make bad movies, I'm not sure there is much that's hopeful that can be said for the prospects of cinema.
2. Being angry at my parents.
3. Away on business this past week, the phone in my hotel room rang. It was room service, asking whether I'd enjoyed the meal I'd ordered two hours prior. So it wasn't enough that I paid thirty-seven dollars for some chicken and a spinach salad: now they wanted me to lie to them about it.
Eric--is it "Melinda & Melinda" that disappointed you on the Woody Allen front?
No, I liked Melinda and Melinda. He has another one out, called Match Point; it's playing in New York and L.A. now and will be going wider this month. I saw it in the city this weekend and after reading almost unanimous praise for it, of the sort Allen hasn't had in a while, my hopes were high. I tried hard to get on its wavelength, but ultimately I had to admit that I don't think it works. Very unfortunate.
1. Who used to be good and isn't good anymore? The Minnesota Vikings. (They never were great, but they used to be good.)
2. Name something you care significantly less about than you did five years ago. My reel-to-reel tape recorders. (Can't even get parts for 'em anymore.)
3. What is the latest indication you've noticed that the culture is going to hell? My teenage niece got her first tatoo while on vacation with her mother.
Eric - I'm looking forward to seeing Match Point, and because of the reviews I have high hopes. I believe Woody will be remembered as one of the greats. His personal life has damaged his career, but that will fade and his body of work will shine. (Also, I've had a thing for Scarlett Johansson ever since that opening shot of her butt in Lost in Translation.)
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