Image suggested by a New York Times obituary this afternoon —
The above YouTube date — May 29, 2018 — suggests a review
of a post in this journal on that date: The Schwartz Meme.
Friday, December 29, 2023
Laurel Canyon . . . Continues.
Comments Off on Laurel Canyon . . . Continues.
Saturday, November 25, 2023
“On Hold”
"Moats, and boats, and waterfalls
Alleyways, and pay phone calls
I've been everywhere with you"
— "Home" lyrics,
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros,
from an album recorded in Laurel Canyon
and released in July 2009 (Wikipedia).
It does sometimes seem that way.
A related remark —
Comments Off on “On Hold”
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Dreaming in Episodes
From Twilight Zone , Season 1, Episode 9, "Perchance to Dream " . . .
Other entertainment that is more up to date:
Destiny . . .
"Maybe one night driving over Laurel Canyon
I'd look up in the rearview mirror, and I'd see
somebody or something coming up out of the darkness.
I had to drive the Canyon twice a day. It's a rough road.
One slip and you're over the edge."
— Actor Richard Conte in "Perchance to Dream " (1959)
For more on Laurel Canyon and the number 47
(the length in minutes of the above Loki finale),
see The Beckinsale Letter.
As for "Shadow Play " . . . See last night's The Intimate Monad.
Comments Off on Dreaming in Episodes
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
“The Pattern of the Thing Precedes the Thing” — Nabokov
|
Subtitles from “Laurel Canyon,” a 2002 film — 7 8 |
Related logo with “Fork me on GitHub” ribbon —
“When you come to a fork . . .” — Yogi Berra
Comments Off on “The Pattern of the Thing Precedes the Thing” — Nabokov
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Hollywood Nights
The conclusion of an obituary for a former resident of Laurel Canyon —
“He would go to all these old junk shops and buy
black-and-white photos of nobody actors,’’
Mr. Klein said. “He didn’t want stills of the stars.
He said, ‘Actors that never made it — that’s
the real Hollywood.’ ’’
— Guy Trebay in The New York Times , June 23
Related music and art — Posts tagged Hollywood Nights.
Comments Off on Hollywood Nights
Saturday, June 6, 2020
The Graduate (Alternate Version)
Kate Beckinsale plays a young Harvard Medical School graduate
working on a doctoral thesis in “Laurel Canyon” (2002).
From the subtitles of the opening scene —
8
00:01:06,713 –> 00:01:08,632
Oh, God.
9
00:01:08,799 –> 00:01:12,886
Oh, Lord. Oh, Jesus.
Comments Off on The Graduate (Alternate Version)
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Comedy Team: Tedious and Rigged
|
“Much of ‘Laurel Canyon’ proves tedious and rigged as it moves from Cambridge, where both Sam and Alex have graduated from Harvard Medical School, to California, where Sam will intern as Alex completes her doctoral thesis on the sex lives of fruit flies. — Malcolm Johnson in The Hartford Courant |
See as well this journal on the above Courant date — March 28, 2003 —
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas.”
— Saying attributed to Harvard linguist Anthony Oettinger
Comments Off on Comedy Team: Tedious and Rigged
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Once Upon a Time in Laurel Canyon
In memory of a screenwriter who reportedly died today —
“Ms. Frank… lived in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills….”
— The New York Times today
“Here, under the shadow of the great tree, I have found peace.”
— Mike Nichols in 1965
Comments Off on Once Upon a Time in Laurel Canyon
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020
Oettinger Quote
Quote Investigator on May 4, 2010* —
"QI has traced the core of the quotation
to the work of an early researcher in
artificial intelligence, Anthony Oettinger,
who was trying to get a computer to
manipulate the English language."
See as well Oettinger in 1963.
"And that was the state of the art."
— Adapted from Stephen Sondheim
* Cf. this journal on that date.
Comments Off on Oettinger Quote
Smart Jewish Girl*…
… Suggests the word dreamlogic. And so …
"You are getting sleepy, very sleepy …"
"In this state of free-association, each new thought
resembles or overlaps or somehow connects-to
the previous thought. As our alertness continues to fall —
as we continue to grow more tired — we lose contact with
external reality.
'The sweetness/ of the gentle world you had made for him
dissolving beneath/ his drowsy eyelids, into the foretaste of
sleep — .' (Rilke, transl. Stephen Mitchell.) Eventually we
sleep and dream."
— Edge.org, "Dream-logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought,"
by David Gelernter [7.7.10]
Comments Off on Smart Jewish Girl*…
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Exploring Schoolgirl Space…
"Old men ought to be explorers." — T. S. Eliot.
Rose the Hat in her younger days.
See as well Barsotti in this journal.
Comments Off on Exploring Schoolgirl Space…
The Demarcation of Nothing
"… nothing could be demarcated as 'hors d'oeuvre'…"
— Geoffrey Hartman in his Haskins Lecture for 2000
(quoted here on Columbus Day, 2004).
See also May Day 2016 and Gap Dance.
Comments Off on The Demarcation of Nothing