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Father of twins and novelist/filmmaker/musician
in New York on the
Upper Upper Upper Upper
Upper West Side.
People complain about musicals.
Nobody just stops in the street
I say you know the wrong people.
They say:
and breaks into song.
ILY: It's done.
I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY, AND I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN
The DVD master ships out today to Customflix for duplication. As far as I can tell, everybody's name is spelled right in the credits.
My first blog entry about it was in June, 2005, and it's consumed every non-day-job, non-little-boys waking moment since then--or anyway until about a month ago, when I got it to 99.9%, hit a problem after everything seemed OK, and ran out of energy.
So now I have to figure out where to hold the premiere party, how to afford it, and maybe how to use it to get a little press.
There are parts that still make me laugh after five hundred viewings. And then there are the little things I could have done better. You know that old saw about how a novel is never finished, only abandoned? Recently I saw it as "A film is never finished, only abandoned," attributed to George Lucas.
I've also seen "A painting is never finished, only abandoned," and "A work of art..." and "A poem..."
I googled "An opera is never finished, only abandoned," and got zero hits. So there's at least one discipline where the obsessives actually cross the finish line. Funny what patronage can do for you.
"Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea."We watched THE SEVEN SAMURAI again last night. It's perfect. I wonder what made Kurosawa wince when he thought about it.
--Iris Murdoch
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