Monday, February 2, 2009

All Eyes on Pennsylvania

Congratulations, Steelers! You are unstoppable.

It's so funny. There used to be EAGLES fans all over the place around here.

They started vanishing just a few years ago and being replaced with Steelers fans. You can't even find the Green jerseys in some stores anymore.

I remember when the Terrell Owens jerseys were going for 1.99 at the mall. When he was at the lowest point.

I guess he's been partially-rehabilitated or something.

Lee's son's been a Steelers fan from way back so of course he's in Heaven.


So PA is the place...Steeelers and now tomorrow...well today now...is GROUNDHOG DAY!!

I like that ALL IN THE TIMING guy. David Ives. I like his plays. Accessible but smart and often quite moving. Even though that movie is sort of lame. But some of the plays are really choice.

The short "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread" play is adorable and some of the ones about love relationships (the one with the mini golf course overlaps and temporal transparencies!) are just stellar.

It's been years since I read these things. I should reread them. I'd like to.

Some smart director needs to do what Altman did with Carver in Short Cuts.

Create a loose weave of the best David Ives plays. That would be such a fucking awesome movie!

I really loved Short Cuts. I haven't made a top ten but I bet it would be on it. It would definitely be on my top twenty if it didn't make my top ten.

Okay, GROUNDHOG DAY PREDICTION (my one bro's birthday btw):

The groundhog is going to come up, realize Bush is no longer President, come out of his nearly catatonic depressive state of groundhog listlessness brought on by a consciousness of the meaninglessness of good works in an evil empire that is constantly grinding down all feelings of a common humanity and killing innocent civilians overseas indiscriminately along with terrorists, scream with joy for the possibilities of a new America, and seek to start grassroots activist organizations online and in the street to lobby a newly pliable Congress, give up the fermented radish juice, meet an equally inspired young groundhogess like his new self, and begin the work of remaking America into a non-Deathstar nation.

Who cares if he sees his shadow or not. He's been living in the goddamn thing for years.

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