Junk Journal Week 30

The prompt for today’s #dyicad2025 is horizon. I did a warm up that I have posted here before I made another index card that I posted a few minutes ago. I think I like this one better.

A word about the movies I watched this week.

Dawson City is about a small city in the northern Yukon that used to be a gold mining town where someone found a cache of movies from before 1920 that were thought to have been lost forever. Much of the picture is clips of those silent movies.

If you have been watching art movies for 35 years and the name Criterion Collection is important to you, then It’s Not Me is for you. Otherwise, unless you have a taste for art movies, move on.

Shaun of the Dead is a romantic comedy that happens to turn into a zombie movie.

Asteroid City is Wes Anderson picture with a large cast about a space camp in a remote town in the American Southwest when a space alien comes and steals an asteroid that has been there for decades. There is an interlocking structure with a play, a tv documentary about the events, and conversations with the playwright. It is definitely a picture with heart.

A Star Is Born is the fourth version of the same story. The first two were about someone becoming a Hollywood star, the two most recent versions are about becoming a star musician. Long but enjoyable.

Books.

James Ellroy is someone who dives deep into (mostly fictional) conspiracies that has a certain relevance in this era when some people spend so much time talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

Delmore Schwartz was seen as a great poet in the late 1930s and 40s. Unfortunately, after that his life became tragic. He had a huge influence on Saul Bellow who wrote Humboldt’s Gift about him, John Berryman who wrote the Dream Songs inspired by Schwartz, and Lou Reed who wrote song lyrics for the Velvet Underground influenced by him.

What things did you watch or read this week you recommend?