10% Broken Edit

Pretty defeating end to the week to be honest, and I needed to step back for a bit this morning and reconnect. Lao Tzu, in the Tao Te Ching, wrote “when the student is ready, the master will appear. When the student is truly ready, the master will disappear,” and while I’m not arguing that Taoism is a recommendation engine I did want to honor a week full of appearing and disappearing by pointing out a couple of works that washed ashore at meaningful moments.

The Hand of God - Paulo Sorrentino

Strange to watch Sorrentino’s ode to his own childhood and Maradona’s arrival to Napoli’s Serie A team in the mid 80’s last night, and wake up this morning to news that Napoli had won its first league title since Maradona’s departure. Stranger still, perhaps, that the film was about a character leaving his known world to begin a journey into making art. Sorrentino is one of the Lords of Cinematic Ache and perhaps the best I know at building up a film for an hour and a half to a particular scene that will strip you for parts and make you feel like you are starting your own life over. Worth a watch this weekend if you haven’t seen it.

“Secret Life” - Fred again.. & Brian Eno

I don’t have the energy for any pom pom shaking this morning but it was a little bit surreal finding out from a friend yesterday that this album was dropping given how much I’ve loved both of these artists. I needed an above ground space to crawl into in the wee hours this morning and I couldn’t have asked for a better tree to climb or ladder to pull up after me.