my west

Is Arrested Development just about my favorite TV show ever?

Yes!

I just heard, not cancelled, picked up for another season.

Hurray!

I read Gertrude Stein's "Susie Asado" with delight.

Looking for more I started "Tender Buttons."

Is "Tender Buttons" good or just an interesting experiment?

I don't know; give it time.

Some said this was too wacky, but I thought it worked better than Tenenbaums.

Willem Defoe.

Again, Anderson applies a wonderfully fitting music.

Off topic, I am very pleased with Star Wars

I lost interest in cop shows when T.J. Hooker went off the air.

The exception: "The Shield"

The spiral of Vic Mackey and his crew is just enthralling, even mythic.

My only complaint, occasionally too graphic for my sensibilities.

Rumor has it Peter Sellers spent years convincing the suits to back “Being There.”

How could I live 29 years without ever hearing about this movie?

Could this be one of the rare films that is better than the book?

I can’t mention Peter Sellers without remembering “The Party”: Birdie num-num!

As a kid, I thought the melting clocks were cool.

My take as a teenager: lots of weird stuff; weird is cool.

Now, interesting to "read" but mostly not very appealing.

I keep trying him on, not because of the clocks, but the time, four years ago, I found "Girl with Curls" in the Florida museum of Dali.

I’d wanted to see a movie by David Gordon Green for some time.

Watching “All the Real Girls,” I was not disappointed.

How is it that this guy gets it so right and almost everyone else gets it so wrong?

They say Strong Bad is somewhere in it.

Jean Seberg, cool, adorable, the American girl I’d want to meet were I French.

Jean-Paul Belmondo, I could look into the face of that man all day.

Because of Wong Kar Wai I watched Breathless.

Adore is not the right word, I don’t know the word for how I melt with pleasure into these movies.

Disparate references, multiple languages make "The Waste Land" more jagged than interesting, much of the Cantos, too.

David Jones wrote "Anathemata" and that other one, I forget the title.

Though more arcane (if possible) the scope is tight, relatively; if you want to read something incomprehensible, go with Jones.

Set them all on fire in exchange for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is The modern poem.