A lot of my friends have asked me if I've seen a new hip show that is "sort of like X Files" and my reply is always no. I have only seen about four episodes of X Files and it was OK. Why would I want to watch a show that was just OK? For someone who doesn't have cable I usually have the TV set to MeTV and still enjoy reruns of M*A*S*H and Columbo. I tried to talk to a friend about a Columbo episode with John Cassevettes as a conductor of an orchestra but they responded with a laugh and "Columbo?!" I am generally about five years behind any type of TV program that is in the spot light. I go to the library quite a bit. Now that I am working I usually only go about twice a week. Two visits ago I checked out "Finding Nemo" I thought I'd watch that before seeing "Finding Dory" which got hyped as the best Pixar movie ever! As I watched "Finding Nemo" I laughed about three times and wondered why the turtle dude was depicted as a stoner. The turtle never even ate any funny seaweed. When it got to the end of the movie, the disc froze and I never saw what happened and I actually didn't really care.
Most recently I watched "The Naked Island" directed by Kaneto Shindo about a family of farmers living on an island without fresh water and their struggles and triumphs. It was mesmerizing and it had no dialogue. It made me think about Bela Tarr's "The Turin Horse" which was also about farmers and I don't think that film had any dialogue. I am going to return some things today at the library, and look for Gene Wilder movies and pick up my reserved copy of Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next" So the next person who asks if I've seen ... I am going to say "Have you read the new David Thompson book, the new Shepard Fairy book or watched Wim Wenders "Kings of the Road "disc two?"
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