On 4-May-05, at 9:33 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> DAYS OF BEING WILD
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> [via Wong Kar-Wai & Leslie Cheung]
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> DAYS OF BEING WILD
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> Didn’t get any sleep--
> are your ears red?
> You can’t deny it.
> Sure,
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> once,
> for that day,
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> boring.
> End.
> I wonder what she’s doing
> now?
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> DAYS OF BEING WILD
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> Didn’t want to see me.
> As I was leaving
> you switched from cop to
> sailor.
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> Owe you this one.
> Flew & flew, never touching down until it died.
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> Beautiful day,
> each other,
> I remember
> nothing.
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> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, Md US / 5-4-05 (11:36 PM)
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> When Wong Kar-Wai’s 1991 feature film starring Leslie Cheung was first
> revived in a new print for a one week commercial run, I’ve was
> intrigued by
> two reviews I read but not quite enough to motivate me to face a drive
> downtown during rush hour and uncertain parking. Then, a few weeks
> later,
> I was surprised to discover that it was available for rental as a DVD
> but
> anticipated that it might not be within the taste range of my viewing
> partner. Regretting the missed opportunities and assuming that my next
> chance to see it in a theatre wouldn’t occur for a few years, I took
> advantage of a most unexpected retrospective (itself anticipating the
> 2005
> release of two new works) of this director’s films a few months later
> at
> the American Film Institute in Silver Spring. Although I much
> preferred “CHUNGKING EXPRESS” and “IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE” to “DAYS OF
> BEING
> WILD”, only the twice-missed film provoked any writing during my
> viewing of
> it. On top of that, my viewing partner independently decided to rent
> the
> DVD of “DAYS OF BEING WILD” and during our experience of the film made
> certain suggestions for revision which I incorporated. I still have on
> hand an unrevised draft of 14 lines from my second viewing (a new
> beginning which might function as an odd middle), but decided to
> present my
> first and last texts together at this time because of their uncanny
> matched
> lengths of 10 lines.
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And the way 'being' is just 'be in' in both?
Do you write these while watching the film, Barry? I had the impression
that some of the others were taken down during interviews...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
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