After an unplanned summer hiatus I have returned.
Greetings once more from my hovel on the shores of the bow.
Clearly I couldn’t be assed to write anything here what with my summer being just jam packed with such exciting activites as sitting in this basement watching movies and trying to prevent the tiny anarchists who live in my house from doing grievous bodily harm to themselves and each other. Every day is an adventure.
I binged all 4 of the Michael Winterbottom Rob Brydon/Steve Coogan “The Trip” movies in the last 24 hours. At a time when one cannot go out it was great fun to watch these two travel around picturesque locations and bicker in duelling impressions of 1970s film and tv performers. I’ve heard the quadrilogy compared to the Linklater Before trilogy and I can see the similarities. These are much funnier and probably not trying as hard to say something prescient about relationships (though a more convincing and relatable dude-friendship is hard to think of on sceen). My favorite of the 4 is probably the first, but Trip to Greece is a pretty close second. For no reason other than I just thought of doing it I now present to you my suggested pairings for The Trip movies with the Before movies.
The Trip and Before Sunrise.
The Trip to Spain and Before Sunset
The Trip to Italy and Before Midnight
Halfway through typing those I sort of lost all enthusiasm for and confidence in the idea but didn’t want to delete any of it in case it triggered some kind of gnawing, existential dread about my writing and I stopped blogging for another 2 months. So, in the interest of maintaining momentum you got to read that utterly useless bit… and this bit explaining it. You’re welcome?
Glad to be back.
joezone 