Serendipity

It's those conversation that just happen, sometimes with a stranger that are the most fruitful and wonderful. Yesterday, I went down to McClures. I knew that they had a book I wanted...Althusser, the philosopher who is as my friend says is "batshitcrazy." I knew I would need to read Althusser for my research and pursuing critical work on the pied noir..my heros. I knew it would be an akward checkout, for the book was titled "Lenin and Philosophy."

I took it to Mr. McClure and he immediatly asked, "What's ya maja." Chemical Engineering..."my man!...what class"...I knew this would happen...I am writing a thesis on the pied noir, Camus, Derrida and I figured I need to read Althusser as well...maybe he won't ask anymore..."What's ya thesis" The position of the outsider, they as french algerian jews in algeria in their youth, off to be educated in paris at the ecole excluding camus, but they still constituted this realm of not belonging, the other embodied and it reflects in their writing..."well have you read Axel's Castle? he says that the writer, the author embodies a position as an outsida, that's why they write"...well I am not aquainted with that work, but I have heard about that and it seems to be a very modern point, or at least a romantic one, that they are in a unique position to "know" but the pied noir were a product to some extent of their social environ and how they took this youth experience and how they took on the french discipline and modified it, made new truths, that what interests me..."well if ya find something, you might have a place in publishing books"...I hope so...

We then discussed Camus as a writer, a journalist and a philosopher vs Satre, the philosophy or anti philosophy of Derrida, the transition of the world from Newtonian deterministic causality to the genetic/ quantum engineering. The phone rang he asked for my name and it ended. Over too soon. That was fun. That is what makes life interesting, those little conversations about the things that matter, that are exciting. I am a dork, yes, but thats what I love, that's my yearning.

Reign Over Me
Love the scooter. Acting was odd, it was serious then it got kind of glib, it just almost didn't work but it worked out.

Breathless
Classic Godard. Extremely existential, but had a lot of true points. I would watch it, just for the experience.

Two Days in Paris
One of my new favourites. I love culture clash, French, francoamerican women and the commentary on American society and the consistent Godard references. It was hilarious. Don't feed the cat foie gras...hah. Definately worth a watch or two.

Annie Hall
Yeah, I watched this with my art class, seen it before but it deserves a place on the list. Woody's character is awesome...and familiar....

End with some quotes from a book I finished this morning. EII by JSF, so poignant, the dialogue so real, but hyper real..but moments of crystal truth.

"Brod's realisation was that the world was not for her...she would never be happy and honest at the same time"

"Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does"

"Why are the painful things always electromagnets"

"I don't know. I was just too afraid. I knew I wasn't supposed to ask, so I didn't"
"Perhaps she was desiring you to ask"

"JEWS HAVE SIX SENSES: Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing...memory."



There are others, but that is all I want to type at this point.