- I love Nickel Creek's cover of "Spit on a Stranger."
- I have missed a few days in the experimental test of my (limited) knowledge. I'll get back on track soon.
- Last night I went to BAM to see Margot at the Wedding, mostly because there was a Q&A afterward with the director, Noah Baumbach. Seeing as how The Life Aquatic and The Squid and the Whale are two of my very favorite movies, I thought it was a cool opportunity.
And, well, blah. The movie was interesting and deep and I probably need to see it again, but it was also one of those movies that triggered my "complicated nonsense" impulse. There were great things about it, though, mostly everyone's performance except Nicole Kidman's (whose acting was seriously compromised by her complete inability to cover her Australian accent). Baumbach also writes kids better than anyone else, and this was no exception. There aren't many writers who can write a kid like a kid (instead of a kid character who acts like an adult) and the moments that I really, really loved all had to do with Claude, son of the eponymous Margot.
This was my primary substantive disagreement with the Q&A host (who referred to the performances as "universally excellent" in a way that made it unclear whether he was talking about the performances in Margot or all of Baumbach's films), but I pretty much objected to the entire way the thing was conducted. The first part of it was ten really awkward minutes of the host trying to impress Baumbach with his cinematic knowledge and desperate love for the man himself (or his work or whatever). The questions from the audience were okay, but included a couple really dumb ones ("Why do you think Rex Reed hated the movie?"). I wanted to ask why there was absolutely no music in the movie (except for a couple of things sung by child characters absentmindedly) but I was so irritated by the host that I just left (also, I had to pee, but that's neither here nor there).
So, that's the content of my loserdom for the day.
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