there has been increasing self-pressure to address the issue of a decade coming to a close. this has been a most unpredictable ten years, 21 to 31. i hope to process through it, as usual, through film and music.



after watching "Love, Liza" (2002) tonight, i recognized, clearly, the most unfortunate happening. when i first saw "love, liza" back in 2002 - i remember it clearly articulating some of my most distraught feelings, with feelings. that made sense to me. but then i ruined it by charting a course of trying to find words and intelligence to speak into and about these heavy, mysterious feelings. and now, worse, i try to project them onto to other people, with weird, empty, and awkward explanations.

but whatever. i am not sure who i would be without the films of Philip Seymour Hoffman, since 2000...

# Doubt (2008/I) .... Father Brendan Flynn

# Synecdoche, New York (2008) .... Caden Cotard

# The Savages (2007) .... Jon Savage

# Capote (2005) .... Truman Capote

# 25th Hour (2002) .... Jacob Elinsky

# Punch-Drunk Love (2002) .... Dean Trumbell

# Love Liza (2002) .... Wilson Joel

# Almost Famous (2000) .... Lester Bangs