Post. 23 Sept 2012.

Since yesterday was the 22nd and I said that I’d better get busy on a couple of projects and because this blog is really just a way of organising thoughts hierarchically…

I shot this still at a restaurant a few weeks ago when I was out of town. It’s shorthand for an idea I have about moving the camera on an axis toward an actor.

Well. It does say: ‘Notes that I make to myself. Myself from yesterday.” Fair game.

Post. 23 Sept 2012.


This C&W video is interesting on a number of levels. They’re pretty powerful and authentic emotionally. (The pedal steel guitar ain’t bad, either.) This is a Buck Owens cover by Dwight Yoakam. When you listen to them, initially, you think that they’re sort of cartoonish characterizations. But then you think it was probably written in the fifties or sixties — more honky tonks and the story probably represents some actual story, somewhere. I was talking about it with a friend of mine that’s a screenwriter in NYC — and she said in a screenplay, as well as life, we’re defined by the choices that we make. You can lose sight of that but it’s a really poignant point.

Conspiracy Theory. 21 Sept 2012.

I hear people, repeatedly, referring to this financial crisis as a recession. In a recession, the Fed raises interest rates to to choke off an overheated economy. Has the Fed raised interest rates? No. This is a deleveraging. Too much credit was extended by overly greedy people to people that were inundated with the ‘trees grow to the sky’ theory. ‘Reality’ was totally miscast. Ray Dalio referred to the current economic malaise as a ‘managed depression’. I think that’s a lot more in line with reality. Let’s hear it for reality. And for Ray Dalio.