Re: the undisputed & the contenders


Subject: Re: the undisputed & the contenders
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 00:07:03 EST


On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:27:17PM +0000, Scottie Bowman wrote:
 
> As Satchmo is reputed to have commented
> when he first heard Bix: 'Nigger, you might
> just as well lay down & die.'
>
> That goes for all of us.

Funny synchronicity; I just described, yesterday or the day before, in a
private message, that I had this reaction when I saw Stardust Memories,
which I think is one of Woody Allen's finest movies. I went into a
four-month spiral of despair, consumed by the thought that I could never
make anything on a page sing the way that movie sang. And it did --
visually, sonically, and (in its fascinating use of narrative threads)
intellectually. My feeling was, Why try? You'll never match it.

--tim

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