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John Preston: What’s the point of your existence?
Mary: To feel. ‘Cause you’ve never done it, you can never know it. But it’s as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock. . . ticking.
“Every age is the same.
It’s only love that makes any of them bearable.”
Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells, from Time After Time (1979)
“I started collecting records when I was five years old.” I can say this with total honesty. However, I’m actually quoting part of the Keynote Address at the Grammy Northwest MusicTech Summit, given by Ian C. Rogers on November 6, 2008.
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Count Dracula, 1977
In reviewing a series of horror and ghost story anthologies, literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote that the “sudden revival of the appetite” for such tales arose in part from:
“. . . the instinct to inoculate ourselves against panic at the real horrors loose on the earth. . . by injections of imaginary horrors, which soothe us with the momentary illusion that the forces of madness and murder may be tamed and compelled to provide us with mere dramatic entertainment.”
—From Classics and Commercials, 1950
At the dawn of the eighties, I was a little kid trying to deal with divorced parents, being crappy at sports, and the overwhelming feeling of not fitting in. My grandma was the first person I knew with cable, and since I was addicted to movies, I watched a few things that I was probably too young to fully understand, but which I still love to this day: Foxes, Foul Play, Heaven Can Wait, and Meatballs.
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“He had been a tool in their hands, his childhood image had been used as bait to condition him, he had lived up to their expectations, he had played his part. Now he only waited to be liquidated with, somewhere inside him, the memory of a twice-lived fragment of time.”
—From La Jetée, written and directed by Chris Marker, 1962
In Rebel Without a Cause, Natalie Wood portrays Judy, a tough-talking teenage girl who exasperates her parents. She doesn’t seem to be able to decide if she wants to be a little girl or a grown-up. Her mother tries to placate Judy’s frustrated father by saying:
“She’ll outgrow it, dear. It’s just the age. It’s just the age when nothing fits.”