Redemption Song - 050911

Redemption Song - movies, music & thoughts - 050911

Adaptation | The Blues: A Musical Journey | September 11 Revisited | failure

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MOVIES --


- TONIGHT -

Adaptation (2002)
Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a Los Angeles screenwriter battling enormous feelings of insecurity and impotence as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief, a book by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) whose main character, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), searches for love. Add to the mix Charlie's twin brother, Donald (also played by Cage), and you have a surreal, Spike Jonze-directed gem about the search for passion.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Curtis Hanson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston, Caron Colvett, Lynn Court, Roger Fanter, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Laura Love, John Cusack, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Rheagan Wallace
Director: Spike Jonze

The Blues! watch disc one of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey (7-Disc Series) AGAIN! ... very much looking forward to the rest of the series - invaluable stuff! see previous: 050910


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Dark City (1998)
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens in a hotel room to find he's wanted for a series of murders he doesn't remember committing. Murdoch encounters the Strangers, a group of ominous beings with a collective memory who can stop time and alter physical reality. He begins to piece together his memories -- childhood, love for his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and the key to the murders -- all the while trying to avoid the underworld of the Strangers.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Alex Proyas

see also below in MUSIC: The Blues: A Musical Journey


above quote[s] from netflix


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MUSIC --


The Blues! watched disc one of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey (7-Disc Series) TWICE last night... very much looking forward to the rest of the series - invaluable stuff!

see previous: 050910


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THOUGHTS --


see t r u t h o u t | 09.11

William Rivers Pitt | September 11 Revisited
truthout.org/docs_2005/091105A.shtml
William Rivers Pitt: Perhaps now that we have Iraq under our belt, perhaps now that we have Katrina under our belt, perhaps now that we have had a few unspeakably costly lessons on just how wretched, stupid, useless, blind, willfully ignorant, dangerous, petulant, frightening, narrow-minded, foolish and ultimately deranged this administration is, perhaps now we can look at September 11 for what it really was: just another Bush administration failure that came with another massive body count.


speaking of failure -
please see also: previous "THOUGHTS"


see also:
Norman Solomon | 9/11 and Manipulation of the USA
Traveling from New York City in late September 2001, on a pre-scheduled book tour, author Joan Didion spoke with audiences in several cities on the West Coast. In the wake of 9/11, she later wrote, "these people to whom I was listening - in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Portland and Seattle - were making connections I had not yet in my numbed condition thought to make: connections between [the American] political process and what had happened on September 11, connections between our political life and the shape our reaction would take and was in fact already taking. These people recognized that even then, within days after the planes hit, there was a good deal of opportunistic ground being seized under cover of the clearly urgent need for increased security. These people recognized even then, with flames still visible in lower Manhattan, that the words 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' had come...



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