to be seen

despite my efforts to maintain a personal film viewing inventory, rich with diversity and exemplary skills in the art of film making... i have never seen a herzog movie--- gasp!!! i know, i know, its simply rotten of me to proclaim a love of documentary film making and still i have not viewed one of the true masters within the documentary film genre. i can't say i recall having ever heard a disparaging comment on his works, always the contrary--- fascination and intrigue come to mind when he is mentioned.

so i have plotted my first viewing of his works to be fitzcarraldo. has anyone out there in the blog-o-sphere seen it? do you recommend another one of his films to deflower mine eyes and ears?

on another note:

"The best way to see through muddy waters is to give them a chance to settle."

a hunch is all you got sometimes

photo by: alex soth

Fog, like reason, settles on the peeling district.
This is the new money. The new economy.
Where my lover lives. When I left him,
I left books, coats, silverware. Things.
It wasn't charity; it was an impure,
commonplace case of forgetting. (May he find some use

for my low-rent betrayals.) Land ends
with miles of aloe along the Great Highway.
Surfers strip off their suits, half-naked
to the naked sea. The sand's ignored
BEWARE OF THE UNDERTOW signs:
these are the notes of the drowned.

The Sunset, by Randall Mann

niagra niagra

epistolary form

the setting sun, and music at the close
as the last taste of sweets, is the sweetest last
writ in remembrance more than things long past.

w. shakes.

can't see your face no more

"may god forgive me for killing you in vain

now you're the flower that's growing from your grave "

david v.

sacre coeur

"And if that doesn't work out, I'll just go pray for a while. Something's bound to happen..."

cycles

"A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens -- second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter."

Reynolds Price

a. whigs wise words

"...Baby you can open your eyes now
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain
Then baby only I can comfort you
Out of the night we come
And into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so"