Subject: Re: the undisputed & the contenders
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:17:56 EST
Aren't the opposing threads of inspiration and rivallry in art distressing? I find this particularly true of the lower levels of any artistic industry, where on one hand, there is an amazing level of empathy and `we're all in this together' feeling, and everyone feeds everyone else. Then, completely concurrently and not at all incongrously, everyone is at odds with one another, no one really wants anyone to succeed and everyone believes that *they* are the one with all the talent and promise. Patti Smith hated Debbie Harry. Jerry Lee Lewis hated Elvis Presley. I wonder at what level Jerry Salinger felt threatened by Ernest Hemingway?
Annie Hall. Sweet Salinger, now *that's* a movie! Woody may marry as many stepchildren as he likes, but gosh damn is he a great film-maker ;)
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:07:03 Tim O'Connor wrote: >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 > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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