pynchonesque church

[Dave Monroe]

There's some incidental conversation in Dutch on an
elevator into a salt mine, and that's it.  Not even
(thankfully) incidnetl music.  But, yeah, that clean,
industrial, brightly lit symmetry, like a Kubrick
film, or an Andreas Gursky photograph ...

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/gursky/

http://www.artnet.com/artist/7580/andreas-gursky.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gursky_andreas.html

http://www.mam.org/collections/photography_detail_gursky.htm

It's soemthing other than else.  The industrialization
of a basic biological function.  Punctuated by
occasional (and ironic) lunch breaks ...

--- Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow.
> 
> The composition of these is incredible.  My initial
> favorite is #8; look at that color and framing!
> I am still a helpless sucker for symmetry.  It's my
> fatal flaw.  I love the title, too.  A user on IMDB
> said that there's no narration or dialogue, but is
> there a soundtrack at all? even a sparse one?

This reminds me, though ...
 
> On a similar thematic note, did you see that
> Richard Linklater is adapting _Fast Food Nation_?
> I read the book when it first came out, and I'm
> semi-interested in seeing it onscreen.  I saw the
> trailer for it, and they quote from the text
> verbatim (eg "there's shit in the meat").

... Abe Vigoda's first line in Goodburger (1997):

"Can you get me to a hospital? I think I broke my
ass."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119215/quotes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119215/

I got to see Linklater do a Q & A session after
premiering Waking Life @ the Chicago Film Fest a few
years back.  Sat across the aisle from Roger Ebert. 
He can be hit (Dazed and Confused) and miss (how do
you make a LESS edgy Bad News Bears, esp. with Billy
Bob Thornton hot off of Bad Santa [which ends with
music used in BNB; a heartwarming Yuletide classic, by
the way--o, seriously ...]?  Then there's School of
Rock [but do see Rock School, Zappa fans esp.], The
Newton Boys ...), but ... well, a character-based
narrative satire based on non-fiction social critique
...

> Thank you, though, Dave.  I'm definitely gonna
> track this down when it comes to Chicago.  It
> hasn't been released in America yet, right?

I saw it here (Milwaukee; you oughtta meet up with Tim
S. and me in Chicago sometime) last week ...

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre/calendar/Fall%2006/template_Fall06.htm#dailybread

... which USUALLY means, it's long since been south of
the Maier/Daley line, but ... well, the Reader hasn't
reviewed it yet, looks like w got it hot off the NY
Film Festival instead, with a US relesae date just in
time for, appropriately, Thanksgiving ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765849/releaseinfo


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