I have always thought that narrative virtues are overrated, especially when the performer appears to be ready to fall asleep.....
I like this because of its passion, its relative complexity, and because it was taped in a bookstore. Mumford and Sons is the name of the group.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
What I like, part 3
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Oh, please. Passionate? How about whiny and self-important? You want to smash somebody's guitar...
OTOH, I can certainly understand that the naked emotionalism of "West" would make Tulk, as he likes to say, "uncomfortable." That one's intense enough to cause night sweats in his neck of the woods.
"Nikita," by the way, is great fun. Nice unexpected twists. Maggie surprisingly strong, in the stare-down moments more importantly than in the fights. Nicely done.
I could get behind the naked emotionalism of "West" if I could make out the words in her exhausted, barely moving, unintelligible, croak.
That kind of thing never makes me uncomfortable, but other people's deepest emotions can be often boring if not communicated in a way other than by almost falling over.
Does Williams have a drinking problem?
As for "Nikita": tell all your friends to watch every week. Baby needs new shoes.
The series opened against the highest-rated prime-time, non-Super Bowl, telecast in the last fourteen years. Did well considering. One problem is that Maggie Q is about thirty years older than most other CW stars. For a lot of the audience, it's like watching a program about their parents....
BTW, the poseur about whom you complain (I think you're missing a bet in your never-ending, in fact life-long, struggle to avoid being taken in by phonies) ) is Laura Marling's current partner.
Kind of a Bob and Joan sort of thing, only it's not clear who's the genius...
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