True Romance film poster 1993. Stayed up last night with this Tony Scott adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s script featuring everyone you’ve ever wanted to see on screen simultaneously ….
• Dennis Hopper in Wim Wenders “Der Amerikanische Freund”, 1977
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I haven’t stop listening to the double release of “Endless” and “Blonde/Blond”. First listen might not make much sense but give it a chance.It’s gauzy, it’s spacious, it’s fluid, it’s textural, complex, crafty, cheeky, but it hits deep & heavy in the most subtle & unexpected ways. I caught myself :’ ( to these tracks & I was like WTF. I think it’s Ocean’s open-heartedness & reflection in his beautiful verses, even when he’s reminiscing fast rides, cheap sex, Carmelo’s ring, Nikes on bitches or his heartbreaks in gay / straight relationships…it all hinges on ruminated longings, sweet nostalgia & urban romanticism.
I love this review from The Atlantic, “The payoff of these songs often comes in musical shifts, when melodies turn plaintive and direct as Ocean pivots from describing small momentary details to longterm emotional effect………….his music underscores that Frank Ocean just doesn’t think about time in the same way that the Internet masses who demanded he hurry up with this album do. What are four years next to Forever ?"
Cast: Martin Sheen (Capt. Benjamin Willard), Marlon Brando (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz), Robert Duvall (Lt. Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore), Frederic Forrest (Engineman 3rd Class Jay “Chef” Hicks), Albert Hall (Chief Petty Officer George Phillips), Sam Bottoms (Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Lance B. Johnson), Laurence Fishburne (Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Tyrone “Mr. Clean” Miller), Dennis Hopper (Photojournalist), Harrison Ford (Colonel G. Lucas)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
All shots from: Original film, Redux, and Final Cut.
The poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, from his book, Rewards and Fairies 1910. Read aloud by Dennis Hopper on the Johnny Cash Show in 1970. One of my favorites.
“Introduction:
Once upon a time, Dan and Una, brother and sister, living in the English country, had the good fortune to meet with Puck, alias Robin Goodfellow, alias Nick o’ Lincoln, alias Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, the last survivor in England of those whom mortals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Thorn, gave the children power
To see what they should see and hear what they should hear, Though it should have happened three thousand year.
The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, another a young Centurion of a Roman Legion stationed in England, another a builder and decorator of King Henry VII’s time; and so on and so forth; as I have tried to explain in a book called PUCK OF POOK’S HILL.
A year or so later, the children met Puck once more, and though they were then older and wiser, and wore boots regularly instead of going barefooted when they got the chance, Puck was as kind to them as ever, and introduced them to more people of the old days.
He was careful, of course, to take away their memory of their walks and conversations afterwards, but otherwise he did not interfere; and Dan and Una would find the strangest sort of persons in their gardens or woods.
In the stories that follow I am trying to tell something about those people.”
