September, 2009
Before sunrise
If not the best, Before Sunrise is one of the best romance movies I’ve ever watched. Why? Because of its simplicity. Unlike the usual romance movie formula – couple in love with something between them (family, distance, culture…), there is nothing between. The argument of the film is just natural dialogue while wandering on the streets of Vienna during less than 24 hours. This movie is for the romance genre as Apocalypse Now is for war.
During my usual after movie reading, I noticed that it was directed by Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused which I’ve watched one week ago. The similarities are evident, time frame of a single day, simple argument based fully on natural dialogues. I also have the DVD of Before Sunrise sequel, Before Sunset next to me…
Spirit Ditties of No Tone + Giga Dance, Deerhoof
Deerhoof was one of the most insane concerts I’ve experienced, they are unique and experimental both on studio and stage. Greg Saunier drum style is as close as it gets from the Animal. Here is a clip of a live performance of Spirit Ditties of No Tone and Giga Dance.
By the way, some photos of the concert, Tavastia – Helsinki (22.4.2009), by TimoH:
Communication
Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren — How to Read a BookWhere the is unresolved ambiguity in communication, there is no communication, or at best communication must be incomplete.
Just look at the word “communication” for a moment. Its root is related to the word “common”. We speak of a community as a group of people who have something in common. Communication is an effort on the part of one person to share something with another person (or with an animal or a machine): his knowledge, his decisions, his sentiments. It suceeds only when it results in a common something, such as an item of information or knowledge that two parties share.
When there is ambiguity in the communication of knowledge, all that is in common are the words that one person speaks or writes and another hears or reads. So long as ambiguity persists, there is no meaning in common between between writer and reader. For the communication to be successfully completed, therefore, it is necessary for the two parties to use the same words with the same meanings —in short, to come to terms. When that happens, communication happens, the miracle of two minds with but a single thought.
