Not much music to comment on today - I usually like to discuss what I'm currently listening to and work was pretty busy the last couple of days so I didn't listen to much. I'm into my second listen of Stupid Dream by Porcupine Tree from 1999. It sounds awesome but I haven't digested it fully yet, and this is clearly a band whose complex works can take a while to digest. I suspect the rewards will be immense as they have been with In Absentia on this one though.
Meanwhile Fast Times was on cable tonight and I just noticed an underrated yet priceless detail - one of those you notice and appreciate after many repeated viewings. Kind of like the wasted dude way in the background at the moon tower party in Dazed and Confused who you see during the conversation between Mitch Kramer and his sister, or when it dawns on you that three major things that happen to Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction all happen while he's in the bathroom - for those who never picked up on that think about it for a second before you read on............ The robbery in the diner goes down while he's in the bathroom, Mia Wallace OD's snorting the heroin she finds in his coat pocket while he's in the bathroom contemplating the importance of loyalty, and Vince himself gets blown away by Butch as he's coming out of the bathroom at Butch's apartment. But I digress...only because the one I just saw that made me laugh tonight is the minor detail I picked up on in Fast Times. Everyone remembers the scene where Spiccoli orders a pizza to Mr. Hand's class - priceless. The detail that had me cracking up tonight which I never gave much thought to was how Mr. Hand gets so rattled and temporarily thrown off his game by the mere fact that Spiccoli is sitting in the front row with a huge grin on his face before the pizza delivery guy arrives. It's a minor detail but it's awesome...
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