conversation with a stone

part 6 & 7 of seven [ one . two . three . four . five . six & seven ]

Four post ago, I mentioned I was in the middle of, among other things, selling my GL2 and my eMac. Well, that was an entire 22 days ago, and I'm still sitting here writing this post on my eMac, with my Canon besides me on the desk.

Long story short, the items didn't hit their reserves on ebay, which were set fairly low for both sales - $1,700 for a basically-new $2,400 camcorder, and $400 for the Mac. Then they didn't sell again, so I listed them on craig's list, that was over a week ago, and I still haven't received one email... how difficult could it possibly be to sell a camera in a town where every other person desperately needs one?

But despite the stand still on the above issue, I have been getting some interviews down on tape. Although I'm noticing a small electronic glitch in the audio of the interviews... a high-pitched, half-a-second beep that is faint, but still annoying all the same - it seems to be happening about every ten to fifteen minutes. I've tried cleaning the heads, etc, but it still shows up all the same.


Aside from the interviews, and the failed attempts at pawning off my equipment... I've been keeping busy with a steady diet of homework; recently: Best Boy, Grey Gardens, I am Cuba, Harold and Maude, A Very Long Engagement...

I've also been searching the internet, trying to locate a copy of Satanstango, but it's [like everything else] harder than I first assumed, my last hope is Rocket Video, but thanks to my internet being almost non-existent, I'm having trouble loading their site. Here is a quote I founf on 'filmbrain', from Gus Van Sant after having just watched the seven hour long film:

"It was exactly what I needed to see at that exact moment in my life. It also summed up some things that I'd been thinking about for a long time and been influenced by but never put to use. The film was accomplishing those things, and a lot of that had to do with the timing of the story and how long he would take to describe certain actions that are simple yet the more you watch them the more they grow in their illumination. It was very inspirational."

Recently I've been getting frustrated with Netflix's lack of hard-to-find films, in their defense I'm not sure if Satanstango has ever been transfered to dvd, but it's still one of many films I've been unable to find through their site. They need a request a film page for their member's page.


Lastly, I still have two slideshows that I've been saving... instead of dragging them out any longer, I'm going to post them both back to back. Enjoy.