NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Steven Koteff]

Sis loved it, was deeply absorbed/moved. She's moderately-to-severely
bipolar, and so had a really rough teenagerhood. Dropped out of high
school, few hospital stays, etc. She is very, very smart but is so
sensitive and has spent much of her life in so emotionally precarious a
state that she has spent a lot of time shying away from art that is at all
high-stakes. She's been a voracious reader, but much of that has been,
like, harlequins.

But lately she's been stable enough that I've been able to recommend things
to her, and she's been able to follow through. I'm sort of her cultural
gatekeeper so I'm basically trying my best to give her a trajectory that
probably apexes with her being able to appreciate something like *GR*, to
extract some of its wonders, etc. She can probably handle it from there.



On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> what did Sis think about it?☺
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> P
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> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Yesterday I got my sister very stoned and took her to see 2001. It was
>> playing at the Logan Theatre here in Chicago. Her first time seeing it
>> (she's 21) and the first time I'd seen it in theaters.
>>
>> I'm sure the movie and the director have been talked about ad mortem on
>> here but if anybody had anything to say about it I am all ears. I will
>> personally confess that I consider it an important part of my life, a work
>> of art that elicits genuine awe from me. Sometimes I put the scene of Hal's
>> deactivation on in the background on a loop while I work.
>>
>> Realized I've never actually read a Kubrick bio. Or anything about
>> him/his movies. Anybody have any recommendations? -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
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