The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Dehydration may, as I speak, be blamed for a great many things: thirst, general drowsiness that pains the sense, undue joint stiffness, unclassifiable malaise, difficulty swallowing, a longing for the age of simple toys--like those pens full of water they used to make in which, by tilting the pen one way or another, one gathered small plastic items into a small space, an inappropriate appreciation of television, an open acceptance of the rerun, unjustified, an impatience with films having to do with war or the struggles of European peasants as particles of a larger and socially informed theme, and other stuff. 8-10 glasses a day. Very important.

On watching Godard's Weekend this weekend, I realized, with a burst of probably lukewarm inspiration, that the burning car sequence in Wild at Heart and the burning car scene in The Straight Story were probably nods to the similar sequence in the older movie. Hmmm.... Not sure what this correlation does for me, but I couldn't hold it down.