Bernardo Bertolucci
I have written several times about the influence on me of Paul Bowles' remarkable novel, The Sheltering Sky. This post perhaps explains best my fascination with the book. Tonight I am thinking of two of my favorite passages, which I have quoted before. The first is this, which upon
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm in a reposting mood today, so here is the most popular post of all time from this blog (followed in rank by a personal favorite, Hudson and the W Hotel Hollywood: A Love Story:), featuring our friend Dwayne Moser's photograph of the High Tower Apartments,
Aldabra
Living and writing by the ocean - in a spot we like to call Aldabra (which in reality is a remote and very beautiful atoll in the Indian Ocean) - the beach figures large in my thoughts and daily routine. Usually I wake early, and on occasion I walk at
Lana Del Rey Carmen Erik Satie Gymnopedie No. 1 Music Video Noir Retro Classical
I have become so enamored of Lana Del Rey's exquisite songs and equally beautiful music videos. This one, for Carmen, is quite extraordinary - please watch all the way through to the end, when the music changes and Lana dances to one of the most haunting classical piano
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I'm falling in love with Lana Del Rey - and this short film by Interview magazine.
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Even though I ran this piece relatively recently, I feel like posting it again, because I was thinking about Nicolas Roeg today and what a huge influence he has been on my life. Also the crisp new Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray of the film we made together, Insignificance, is available.
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Listening to BBC Radio 1 from the UK on Sunday night, it was refreshing to hear two DJs talking about how incredibly cool Prez Obama is! Obama never seems to get much appreciation here. He is the Mos Def of politics!
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I was feeling nostalgic for my old blog, Loving The Wolf - and for the Pacific, which is two or three hours farther away than it used to be - so here is a rerun of my final post on Loving The Wolf, called Sunset Over The Pacific - posted
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I wanted to revisit one of my favorite pieces from this blog, A Meditation On Meditation, which explains something of what Buddhism and meditation have meant to me for the past 21 years or so... (This piece was originally published on Monday, September 6, 2010.) It's vital, I
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For some reason, I can't post a reply to a comment to a post from Peter Delaunay regarding the High Tower Apartments piece below, so I am publishing his comment and my reply here. The photograph above is one of a series of spectacular large-scale photographs taken (mostly)
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This beautiful apartment complex in Los Angeles is called the Hightower or High Tower Complex (the High Tower name refers to the central elevator, I believe), and was designed in 1935-1936 by architect Carl Kay - and made famous in 1973 by my favorite film, Robert Altman's The