Presenze (1971, 1980 Mondadori)
di Jerzy Kosinski (Łódź, Polonia, 14 giugno 1933 – New York, 3 maggio 1991)

Gruppo Mondadori
#mondadori #jerzykosinski #presenze #beingthere #oltreilgiardino #petersellers

My better half sent me this, ( he always sends me this stuff) but wanted to share this one.... just to say there will be always someone there for you when you have dark days. 💖💖💖 #mentalhealth #beingthere #havingsomeone

#GreatAlbums1990s - #Wilco – #BeingThere (1996). Tweedy upped his game by releasing this double CD of ramshackle rockers (“Outta Sight,” “I Got You…”) and forlorn meditations (“Forget the Flowers,” “Sunken Treasure”). Wilco sounds more like a band than on debut AM, and the nods toward Exile on Main Street matter less in terms of sound than ambition. It’s the point at which American shrugged off retro affectations to suggest possible futures.
#Albums, #Music, #LP, #Reviews, #Rock, #Americana

Peter Sellers in Oltre il Giardino (1979) per la regia di Hal Ashby
#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #HalAshby #PeterSellers #CalebDeschanel #BeingThere

https://www.spoileralert.eu/2023/04/27/being-there/1910/

@craigmaloney I like to watch.

#beingThere

As an aside, #Wilco show how boxsets & deluxe should be done. This - as with #BeingThere & #AM - was very reasonably priced, overstuffed with great content, well presented, well mastered, & well pressed. The 2020 reissue was mastered by #BernieGrundman.

LOUISE (watching Chance on a show): It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!
#BeingThere

Here's some #writingadvice: Characters in a #story must interact with the place a #scene is set in.

All too often, I've read the work of aspiring authors and felt like the story was simply talking heads. Nothing more than a script. The setting had all the dimension of a matte painting, and served only as a #background. It's a newbie error to not have your #characters interact with their surroundings.

#Conflict is something that gets pounded into our head from the instant we first let someone read our work. Conflict occurs when characters interact with one another. A "sense of place" requires your characters to interact with their environment, to do something. It's the difference between talking to a friend on the phone in contrast to talking with a friend while shopping together.

I did a lot of thinking about this because I added many of these interactions while revising the initial draft of a chapter. It's always best to avoid anything that causes you to exit the zone, to stop writing. Writing dialog and action in this case was most important. Nevertheless, some of the most interesting stuff happened when I added the environmentals.

Briefly, my character is annoyed as she's leaving a bakery, feeling stood up. Another male acquaintance shows up. He blocks the doorway. Another patron stops confused just outside. She almost runs into the friend and briefly thinks he smells of cinnamon. She likes cinnamon and has a chance to smile in a way the acquaintance misinterprets. She remembers she's in a bakery, listing cinnamon, butter, and yeast smells, and chides herself. She further remembers and returns to the counter to pick up her pastry box, seeing it wrapped with twine by the baker. The acquaintance puts his arm around her shoulders. #BeingThere, in this case, in a bakery.

Even walking on the street is an opportunity to interact, to get crowded into a boxy newspaper rack, to walk around slow pedestrians into the street putting a foot into the wet gutter, to smell where a dog has recently been, to wait for a light to turn green at a crosswalk while looking nervously at a watch, or to wave to a neighbor while talking to a companion.

Even a meal is an opportunity to clatter silverware against a plate, to gesture with a drink in hand to eject liquid to avoid or to apologize about, or to wipe mustard off of a chin that might be your character's, a boyfriend's, and a child's.

#setTheScene
#interactions
#fivesenses

#7FilmsToKnowMe for now, anyways

#TrueStories (1986)
#Electroma (2006 - with Daft Punk)
#28DaysLater (2002)
#TheHistoryOfFutureFolk (2012)
#Alien (1979)
#IlPiccoloDiavolo (1998) (with Roberto Benigni and Walter Matthau)
#BeingThere (1979)

#jukebox #spaceoddysey #beingthere

Also Sprach Zarathustra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJK3eUP5Hvg

Very often (not always) "I'm a private person" is code for "I'm not able to speak about certain areas of my life for fear of being judged, unloved, exposed and made vulnerable". While everyone needs their privacy, they also need reassurance someone is there to listen without judgement. So an "if ever you need to talk... I'm here" (that you mean, and that isn't simply polite talk), goes a long way.

#beingthere #therapy #solidarity #allies #mentalhealth

Been a very Wilco summer and fall. Their newest Cruel Country is wonderful. Though #BeingThere is what’s currently spinning. #music

Been a very Wilco summer and fall. Their newest Cruel Country is wonderful. Though #BeingThere is what’s currently spinning. #music