If you’d walked into a restaurant I would’ve become a waiter, if you’d walked into a burning building I’dve become a fireman, if you’d walked into an elevator I’dve stopped it between two floors and we’ve spent the rest of our lives there… Please forgive me but you can’t walk out of my life like that.
Henry Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait

Currently in LA on my way to San Francisco. This man showed me where to get the best french dip sandwiches in the world. We meet on the train, which was his last day of a thirty day travel extravaganza all over the country.

Currently in LA on my way to San Francisco. This man showed me where to get the best french dip sandwiches in the world. We meet on the train, which was his last day of a thirty day travel extravaganza all over the country.

Metropolitan

Metropolitan is a very witty film about New York City’s debutante society and has some of the best dialog I’ve heard, and equally great acting from a handful of non-actors. Check out the trailer!

Great Stereolab music video for Three Women. I would really love to know how they did this, and then I would love to do it.

On my first day in Paris, Christine and I ran all over the city trying to find the theater this film was playing at. We never ended up finding it, but I have feeling when I finally get my hands on a copy of La Chinoise, it will be my favorite Godard.

Friedrich

When exporting large video files from FCP my computer is pretty useless, so in between the long waiting periods I’ve been reading The Will to Power to pass the time:

What were the advantages of the Christian moral hypothesis?

1. It granted man an absolute value, as opposed to his smallness and accidental occurrence in the flux of becoming and passing away.

2. It served the advocates of God insofar as it conceded to the world, in spite of suffering and evil, the character of perfection -including “freedom”: evil appeared full of meaning.

3. It posited that man had a knowledge of absolute values and thus adequate knowledge precisely regarding what is most important.

4. It prevented man from despising himself as man, from taking sides against life; from despairing of knowledge: it was a means of preservation.

In sum: morality was the great antidote against practical and theoretical nihilism.