Daily Ration
12/05/2005
My wife and I managed to catch Good Night, And Good Luck at the AMC Theater this Friday. It was a toss-up between this film and Paradise Now (Circle Cinema). My wife successfully rallied against subtitles on the big screen once again, so we avoided the foreign film and went instead for the Edward Murrow biopic. But it was so much more than that.
Without going into a review, let's just say that Good Night, And Good Luck is the best movie I've seen this year. It surpasses anything I saw last year, too, and the year before. I'm almost tempted to give it equal footing to the jaw-dropping artistry of The Constant Gardner, but in some ways Good Night takes bigger risks. It challenges the status quo and provides a voice from the past to give wisdom to the folly of the present. Everyone with a brain needs to see Good Night, and Good Luck.
I was HOPING for a lazy day on Saturday, and it ended up being a work day. Mo'Chroi (sick boy that he was last week - pneumonia, no less) and I spent all afternoon and part of the evening sequencing out a drum track for the PG5YP demo, and during one of our breaks I got my first taste of pizza from the Pie Hole - it was fantastic (maybe as good as Mario's on 51st/Harvard - for different reasons, of course).
Saturday was a nice, gentle day, all in all. I felt like celebrating, because no longer am I plagued with the racking cough and infection that kept me down for practically a month. However, plans fell through in the evening and I ended up spending it at home... watching reruns of Blake's 7 in bed.
I wish to brand the last several weeks as the "Great Sickness" for the band, and pray that we don't have to go through this again - ever. My wife is still sick, Mo'Chroi is getting over his pneumonia, and Timbre'Wolf has been doing the coughing/hacking thing, but I've managed to see it through to the other side, and Alice was lucky enough to ride the wave all the way through with nothing more than a sniffle.
Tonight we're going to print the drum track and do a bit of arranging. Then rehearsal. Hopefully we're back to our 4-day-a-week practice schedule. It will be nice to keep running forward.
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, December 05, 2005,
