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[3pipeproblem]

Yesterday's American Independent Cinema class was fairly awesome. We spent practically no time discussing Pulp Fiction and skipped right to Paul Auster, which of course entailed watching part of The Music of Chance. Spader with a mustache! Spader with a goofy accent! Spader playing cards! I think I laughed through half the scene for no reason other than the fact that he puffs on a cigarette the same way Alan smokes a cigar.

And I got an A- on my midterm after spending all my study time on Cassavetes, who wasn't on the damn thing, and attempting to analyze John Waters' Hairspray without having seen it.

The last thing I have to do for this class is a presentation and paper about some aspect of Down By Law. Yes, it has occurred to me that I could conceivably get away with writing 10-15 pages about Tom Waits.

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[peterwiggin.livejournal.com]

Still glad I dropped it :(

I find it amusing Katx still doesn't give enough of a rat's ass to notice when people are shooting the BS at him.

Go you and your A-!

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Although it's turning out to be one of my favorites this semester, you sound like you've been a hell of a lot more productive without it getting in the way.

Hahaha, he gave me extra credit for identifying a TS Eliot quote. Or said he would. I can't tell if he actually did.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redcorvette/]

hahahahaha when I first saw a picture of him from that movie I thought it was John Turturo.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Spader? You're nuts.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redcorvette/]

HAHAHAHAHHA That or a young Nick Cage.

John Turturo
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/SMD/TMOC/themusicofchance18.jpg

Nick Cage
http://mandypatinkin.net/MOC/moc8.jpeg



He's so not believable as italian!

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha, and you didn't hear the accent.

Cage I can see, but his hair's nothing like Turturro's.

[bananaprincess.livejournal.com]

Paul Auster? I just read City of Glass.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

How was it? I've read--well, first I read The Invention of Solitude for another of this professor's classes, but since then I've read Music of Chance and I just finished Leviathan.

[sam-mi.livejournal.com]

The Music of Chance is one of my favorite JS movies. When I first saw it I was still in my JS drooling stage (that would be when he still had a chisled jaw and flat stomach), and I had a hard time looking at him and listening to him as Jack Pozzi. But by the time the hooker arrives, I was as charmed by him as Jim (Mandy Patinkin's character) was, and I found him just as irresitible as the hooker did.

He's very sexy, not initially, but that's what makes it so devastatingly erotic when you find yourself responding to him as the hooker did. I'd have traded places with her.

Sorry, I deleted my post with the big ol' picture of Jack Pozzi. Thought I'd respond here. :) That picture is from one of the few happy moments in the movie, and I love it. The wall's completed and he runs up and down the length of it, so happy. Hope you get to see the whole movie, if you haven't already. And your class sounds terrific, too.