...does remind me of someone...hmm...I wonder who it could be?
Posts archive for: 2 August, 2007
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Bergman and Antonioni
@ 2007-08-02 – 11:21:08
I don’t cry easily, or very often, unless I hit my thumb with a hammer or injure myself in some other outlandish way which oddly enough doesn’t happen very frequently despite me being a total accident freak. This week, however, I’ve cried twice already. TWICE! And the week isn’t even over yet. Reading about Bergman’s death saw me weeping on to my keyboard in front of a handful of strangers who must have thought I’d been jilted via email or something in that vein. I snubbed the sympathetic glances with a few hushed fuck yous and carried on. The second weeping of the week transpired this morning after I learned of Antonioni’s death. I didn’t know either of these men personally, still I cried. I cried for Syd Barrett and Saul Bellow too. The tears came without warning galloping down my cheeks whilst I read the blurred obituaries failing to convey the true genius of either of these men.
