Le Notti di Cabiria
I downloaded the new Radiohead B-Sides today. They consist of a live version of "I Will" which is awesome, remixes of "Myxamatosis" and "Scatterbrain," and a demo version of "There There" which is interesting but nowhere near the brilliance of the final product.
The day began with a very disorienting phone call from Jimmy during which nothing even remotely making sense came out of my mouth.
Soon after, I had a ham, egg, and cheese bagel with no ham or egg but bacon instead. It was all right. The orange juice was the best part of the breakfast.
Later I met up with Lee and we went to turn in an application for a job she's applying to then went to Magnolia bakery. Half a cupcake and one gigantic slice of Coconut Layer cake later I was feeling really gross.
We went to the Guggenheim and perused around briefly. During that brief perusal (is that a word?) we saw the Fellini exhibit they had. It mostly consisted of a lot of cartoon work that he had done before and while he was a filmmaker. Fun stuff, he's kind of a dirty man though, but it's funny.
Soon after we headed downstairs to watch Nights of Cabiria. It was great. The print was the restored one and it was pristine. It was amazing seeing a film print of 46 year old film look so brand new. I turned around a couple times to make sure it was film and not a digital projection of the DVD or something sneaky like that. Sure enough, it was film. Whoooaaaa. Anyway, it's a film I've seen many times before and I love it. Giulietta Masina is so lovable in this movie, greatness. I can't wait to see La Strada. I'm contemplating whether to go see La Dolce Vita tomorrow...
Sebastian's video was finished and printed to tape today. Woohoo. It's screening tomorrow at Tisch at 1pm as part of the Sixth Annual Days of Community Symposium which this year is exploring the role of the arts in a research university. I think I'm going to go although it's terrifying... the thought of a bunch of people I don't know watching something I had a large part in creating... ... ...
The night was topped off with Gyro.
Radiohead is hosting MTV2 Subterranean later tonight so I'm going to watch that then the rest of my night will probably consist of me writing and then going to bed relatively early for a Friday so that I can get up early tomorrow and make it to Tisch on time.
edit:
Rumor I heard: Pixies are going to open for Radiohead in the spring. Whoa. Honestly, I would love to see Radiohead open for the Pixies though, that band is just that cool. Regardless of whether this pans out, they did say they're touring in April for sure, that's going to be amazing.
Also, turns out we don't get MTV2... Luckily, Lee is taping it at the moment.
