Well, I started reading bits of this book a few weeks ago and I am now starting at the beginning. I'm quite enjoying it. For the unknowing, Oliver Sacks is a doctor, famously for writing "Awakenings" which was then made into a film with Robin Williams. So he writes about his medical experiences. This book is about people and their relationship with music. Some have a stroke or were struck by lightning and suddenly develop an ability or a great passion for music. Others are born with a inability to recognise music (serious! they think that music and falling pots and pans do not sound any different). How bizarre.
So you know, it makes me think that there is something more than just "taste" at work with why there are so many forms of music, and how people could possibly enjoy rap, or jazz, or country... perhaps there is something far more neurologically based than we imagine.
Recently I also watched the film "Company of Wolves" that stars Angela Lansbury. On the corny level, this is right up there with Legend. It has bad effects, corny period costumes and the same kind of stilted acting, plus an array of strangely appearing animals close to the lens. What is that about? The stray frog, python, mouse? Anyway, its a morality tale being a retelling of the Red Riding Hood story. It deals with the coming of age.
The Italian film festival will be on soon, and also Goma has a wonderful program on to support their surrealism exhibition. (4 Cronenbergs, 4 Lynch and the Cremaster Cycle) and a retrospective of Hitchcock.
On the weekend I got to play with power tools as well. It was very enjoyable.
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