Movie: Inherent Vice

[Dave Monroe]

Not me.  This is somoen who took my preference for ELO to Steely Dan
(despite her being a big pop music fan, + my admitting that  SD is the
"better" band, I just enjoy my major-chord pop record, is all--was
called "an emotional terrorist," cut off for another couple of weeks.
For example).  But she just moved back to town (her husband works from
home, can live pretty much anywhere), going w/ her + the kids to
http://county.milwaukee.gov/MitchellParkConserva10116.htm tomorrow.

Here's my (un)god kids, by the way (parents ex-Catholic atheists):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn3Y4Dj2qyw

http://www.lifebeforethedinosaurs.com

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/on-the-red-couch-art-capps-of-life-before-the-dinosaurs/

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave, you and she take your fiction WAY too seriously.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Monday, May 25, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I actually recommended to a friend that she see the movie 1st, as it
>> streamlines the plot(s)/theme(s) well (enough).  So she of course read
>> the book 1st, + immediately started arguing w/ me four sentences in
>> (so, again, if anyone has definitive proof of the existence of a
>> Conutry Joe & The Fish  t-shirt [as eventually seen in the movie,
>> albeit more of a gig poster printed on a shirt, w/ Iron Butterfly et
>> al. ...]).  I ultimately noted that, well, everybody can make a
>> mistake (which Pynchon does in IV, calling Lew Alcindor Kareem Abdul
>> Jabbar a season too early), but made the fatal faux pas of sending
>> along a site enumerating the mathematical mistakes in Infinite Jest
>> (her Big Novel of choice, that + The Man without Qualities [q.v.]).
>> Took it as a personal attack (which apparently going after my favorite
>> author wasn't ... but I'm obviously used to bickering about Pynchon,
>> so ...).  Shoulda gone w/ Wm. S's shores o' Bohemia ...
>>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes. The "makes sense" aspect does make it *less* Pynchonian. But that's
>> > OK.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday, May 25, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The movie is a neater, more streamlined version of the book. Made
>> >> total sense to me, ie there were no loose ends or cryptic signifiers
>> >> that left me scratching my head. Seriously don't get the reviewers who
>> >> said 'not getting it is the point!'
>> >>
>> >> Then again, all of this kind of makes it *less* Pynchonian, but still
>> >> kinda more enjoyable than the book itself imho.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Dave Monroe
>> >> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/inherent-vice-from-page-to-screen-the-6-biggest-changes-from-the-book-20141215
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/19/inherent_vice_book_vs_movie_how_pynchon_s_novel_paul_thomas_anderson_s_movie.html
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> I just now saw IV movie on DVD.  I liked it a lot. Might the movie
>> >> >> be
>> >> >> better
>> >> >> than the book?  Is there a source that judges how close the movie
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> book
>> >> >> compare? Still, it felt a lot like Pynchon to me.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> David Morris
>> >> >>
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