Tony, back from another adventure in Switzerland, finally saw that film. The one about the temperature at which truth burns, or whatever it is:
"When I say 'see' I mean what I witnessed between two catnaps: after the second snooze I left early," he informs me. "Too long, too slick &, above all, too much propaganda persuading me what to think rather than a more documentary approach which might have let me make up my own mind. The cutting was pure cliché: Bush on the battleship announcing 'We have prevailed' followed by an explosion & mangled bodies.
I know Cannes isn't famous for good taste but I did find voice-over interjections like 'It helps when Daddy is President' a little on the cheap side."
So my fine friend has done my "duty as a journalist" for me, along with all the other ones who have written or told me similar things...
I shouldn't really say "Moore is less" without having sat through it myself, but enough already!
Being in a "to hell with all politicos" mood again, I'm more interested in the "new musical functionality", ('plasticbag') an ambitious venture Tom Coates has embarked on of late.
While I really wouldn't want to have all my music in my pocket all the time, Tom's notions of where the iPod may be leading us are well worth the visit.
Oups! This week is off to a bad start.
More, maybe, on the desktop pic some other time.
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