Don Cavalli - "New Hollywood Babylon"

I picked him up on an on-ramp with no sign. Just a crown with the number 50 inside, and a buttload of trees in all directions except for straight ahead. We travelled for 4 hours without stopping and I'm not sure he even took a breath. He kept talking about "God Geometry", it was some kind of theory he was working on. His teeth had little yellow spots in the middle of each one, and sometimes he'd look out the window and I'd wonder if he even knew I was there. He had a little pack with him and it was as dirty as he was. Dusty. Like a drawing of a dirty kid, covered in a brown cloud. He would grind up his pills, medication for a heart condition, on the dashboard while I drove. We listened to the CB or a drumming tape, and he talked. The God Geometry, he said, was a system of connecting the world all together. He said it needed to be seen, it was like uncovering dinosaur bones, it had always been there. And he said if you could see all your connections, you could see right back to the first thing that ever happened in the world. He talked about time like it was a distraction from the fact that you can't make anything or throw anything away, you can only rearrange things. He said this while he ate a cold burrito out of an old foil he had brought in his bag. "The shortest path," I remember him saying, "Between right and wrong is realizing that nobody gives a good goddamn about anybody else."

(thanks Mark!)

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Tortoise - "Ten-Day Interval"

Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (of Catfish) have made a new short documentary about Chris Burden's Metropolis II. It's lovely and makes me want to see more.

(sidenote: Joost & Schulman are currently directing Paranormal Activity 3, which combines, very unexpectedly, the phrases "excited for" and "Paranormal Activity 3" into one sentence that I will now speak proudly and with confidence. That trailer is terrifying.)