scum yes light

two great films within 24 hours, scum on television last night, a young ray winstone, vegetarians, i shit 'em, bleak as anything... life in a borstal in 1979...

i'm the daddy now

a really great line said by the governor to a young trainee that i wanted to write down but couldn't find a pen, something like:

you don't need to think for yourself in here laddy, it's all laid on for you

alan clarke directed it originally for the BBC, but they wouldn't allow certain scenes (male rape for example) so he made it into a cinematic release...

and then today i cycled over to mayfair (where i'm sat right now, in the mayfair library where spanish M works), & saw Yes @ the curzon mayfair, in the end i couldn't find a partner for the two for one deal last night but i realised that if you go to a film before 5pm it is generally cheaper anyway...

K had recommended this film to me and i'm really glad i got to see it, apparently the director sally potter started working on it immediately after the 11th of september 2001 and it is very much a film of our times... told all in verse, but the phrases not sitting neatly within the lines, rhymes coming midway through sentences, just beautiful, and sad, john berger thanked at the end, and nella bielski in amongst the longer list of thanks just after...

and now i'm waiting for M to finish work and i guess we're going to wwander around a park or two in the still lovely early evening light...

last night, much later, she got home just as i was preparing to go out and cycle round in the amazing light after the rain, the sunset lighting up the clouds from below,

i set off one way and she got her camera and set off the other...

adventures in light,

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