Tu 3/23/21

 Tu 3/23/21

1005am. 310pm. 925pm. 

Up 810am: Cloudy with rain beginning this morning and continuing through the night- temps to 60. Very little rain actually fell.

I wrote up 'PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE' by Gore Vidal for the blog.

Watched 'BLACK OR WHITE' (Netflix). A grandfather and grandmother are raising their mixed race granddaughter. Grandma dies in a car accident and granddad must become a single parent, yet his black in-laws and the child's father have other ideas. The film concerns racial and class differences and sometimes the film's moralizing hits the mark and I suppose it could begin a dialog about racism and class, but overall it is somewhat ethically tone deaf. And it wasn't only the race issue that seemed confused, but equating alcoholism with crack use was also problematic; with Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Bill Burr, Anthony Mackie, and Gillian Jacobs.

Village Voice: "Occasionally, the film rouses into something thoughtful, even daring."

130pm: ON THE TREADMILL.... FOUR AND A HALF MILES, but tired and watched more of JOE ROGAN on Ari Sahffir's podcast and some- HOW NEAL FEEL. 

Watched 'CAFE SOCIETY' (Amazon Prime). A guy from the Bronx travels to Hollywood to try and get a job with his 'wheeler-dealer' uncle. He falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his uncle's mistress, but in the end the girl chooses the uncle.  Although the guy goes on to find a wife and start a family, he never stops wishing that she had picked him; with Steve Carell, Sheryl Lee, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Parker Posey, and Blake Lively. 

Read 'THE KING OF TORTS' for a half hour and then back on the treadmill at 615pm... TWO MILES and more of JOE ROGAN/ARI SHAFFIR.

In the tub with THE KING OF TORTS and listening to JOHN COLTRANE, THE RED HOUSE PAINTERS, SUN KIL MOON.

Watched 'TALK RADIO' (Amazon Prime- leaving 4/1). "Disturbing yet mesmerizing"..."Talk Radio says that the depravity of the mass media is fed and surpassed by the roar of the maniac crowd"..."Talk Radio, despite its collective intensity, is itself just another unenlightening late-night call-in session"; with Eric Bogosian, John C. McGinley, Alec Baldwin, and John Pankow. 


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