blow-up is such an awesome movie.

i love the yardbirds bit. and the part where david hemmings and that model are just... rolling around, taking pictures, being sexy.

Yeah. Very cool. I love Vanessa Redgrave's part too. She's very strange in this one.

The bit where David Hemmings plays her some jazz really makes me cringe. And before anyone suggests otherwise, I don't think that was the intention.

Mmm, I think it was partly. I'm serious. I have to admit I've always felt a little ambivalent about that scene, never sure what it's point is. But I think we're supposed to see Hemming luring the fly into his web, and that is a bit creepy.

I'm guessing Ovation is one of those Satellite channels? I don't get those.

Ovation is on cable I think, too...maybe the Digital Cable. But yes, I do have satellite....

Throughout Blow Up, Hemmings' character (Robert?) is always immersed in the imagination of his own reality. The film has him having trouble, by the end, distinguishing what is real and what is imagined. The scene with Redgrave and the record is another instance of this, where Hemmings is showing Redgrave something that isn't there, showing her the "imagined" beat behind the "real" beat.

I have to say. That's brilliant!

Not really. I've watched the thing obsessively like 10 times now. It becomes really obvious when the movie becomes etched in your brain like that.

But that is what the character of Hemmings is about. The real vs. the imagined. So in each scene he sort of plays this conflict out, and that's what I think he's doing there, too.

Yes, I know about the issue of the real vs the imagined that runs throughout the film, culminating of course in him participating in an imagined game of tennis. (A difficult scene because it seems to suggest that prior to it he did actually have a grip on reality.) The idea of him trying to show her the 'real' beat behind the actual one never occured to me though and definitely allows the scene to make more sense than I'd previously credited it with.

It's an interesting film in general because it seems to insist upon the kind of 'deep' reading that its theme ultimately criticises.

I can't say I really liked Blow-Up. There were parts I liked like the Yardbirds bit, and when he's initially photographing Vanessa Redgrave in the park, and a couple other parts. But overall I didn't really dig it. But that was just one viewing, maybe better luck on round 2.

Tonight, 630 Eastern, on the Sundance Channel: Robyn Hitchock: Sex, Food.

What about tonight, May 8? Any recommendations?

did ya see the monster thread????

tonite I am watching the Houston Rockets take on the LA Lakers.

That's, like, sports, right?

Has Houston had an NFL team since the Oilers became the Titans?

scattered thunderstorms with a light-to-moderate chance for the development of severe supercells.

Goddamn it, help me out here!

hmm. Why do american football teams change their names? Houston Oilers was a classic name compared to the tennesee tits. I remember the season they came in with the carolina panthers, both shite names.

Fuck football. Sports represents the decline of western civilization.