I keep meaning to post something but when things are good the compulsion just isn't as strong. Same when things are bad. What I really feel the urge to do is mow down bad guys. With a tank. Not shoot them, just roll right on over them and let the treads do the talkin'.
I finally got to see Werner Herzog's "Stroszek" which has been on my list ever since I saw his amazing "Fitzcarraldo". "Stroszek" is decidedly less upbeat and surreal, a story about a bum and a prostitute from Berlin who end up in rural Wisconsin. The ending is bittersweet at best and disappointing at worst. Not sure I would recommend it.
I'm told that July 3rd there will be a guy shot out of a cannon and over the river that runs through downtown. There's a poster here. (Appropriately enough, it's the Cannon river.)
On an off note, I don't like to be referred to as "single". "Hey single". Yeah, that makes me mad. Just because I'm the only one in the room...
Posted by eric at June 28, 2005 10:01 PM
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The girl who called you single is also single. If that counts for anything. I don't blame you though, I wouldn't like it either.
Posted by: Betsy at June 29, 2005 07:44 AM
I hope that last comment didn't sound too cruel. I didn't mean for it to. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being single. There isn't.
Posted by: Betsy at June 29, 2005 07:54 AM
I suppose that's something.
Methinks thou dost apologize too much!
Posted by: EB at June 29, 2005 09:18 AM
"The unwanted son of a prostitute, Bruno S. was beaten so severely by his mother at age 3 that he became temporarily deaf. This led to his placement in a mental institution; he spent the next 23 years in various institutions, often running afoul of the law... He was very difficult to work with, though, sometimes needing several hours of screaming before he could do a scene."
If this is what the lead actor is like, I'm puttin' "Stroszek" at the top of my Must Watch list!
Posted by: Blandwagon at June 29, 2005 10:19 AM
Herzog has the unnerving tendancy to mix the real and the fantastic. Just watching the movie you get the feeling that not everything is right in the "real" Brunoland, not just the screen version.
If you're looking to find out what late 70s Wisconsin looks like to a German filmmaker, well, this would be it.
Posted by: EB at June 29, 2005 10:51 AM