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Some may wonder about the blog's title. That's a quote from Eva in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Eva dancing to Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Got a Spell on You - ( :55 ):




Past titles:

If you find something you like I'm sure they'll let you leave the blanket here.

- David Zellner's line in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

It's like a Clockwork Orange situation...

- Spalding Gray,...

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I added this to my queue immediately after watching Xavier Dolan's Mommy (2014), which also stars Suzanne Clément, and like Mommy, she just about steals Lawrence Anyways also. You seat yourself and strap in, and at the end of the ride, you try to reflect on what you've just seen. It was hours after I watched it yesterday afternoon that I reflected on the opening scene. Faces. Expressions. People looking. People looking with that look. Like there's a hand growing out of your forehead. Then she walks...

Holding balancing stick
On the city river wall
Evening air cooling
As the sun starts to fall.
Perched atop solid concrete
If focus not maintained
49 foot plunge into the river
Not so sweet.
Is that guy silly?
Why those jumps and sprints across the lawn?
Why's he singing to himself?
Working out both dusk and dawn...
Quite simply, to find balance
In a life oft tumultuous
Taxing the body
Brings...