the immoralist. i set a new record for myself when i actually finished the entire story from cover to cover in 2 and a half hours at my desk in college this morning. 8 to 10.30. after reading so much about the supposed selfishness of the protagonist michel through his search for his own identity in his body, in his desires, in his ideas of vice and virtue that lead to the eventual reversal of roles as he becomes the caretaker of his ailing wife ( a part that she performs uncomplainingly when michel suffers from tuberculosis earlier in the book) who eventually dies, i was expecting a much harder character than the one in the book. michel seemed to be mixed up and confused like all of us, searching and frustrated by ourselves and others who claim to understand us, and stand in the way of us experiencing life ‘fully’- whatever the costs… often tragic.
car music - beck is a genius. from the garbage tin can slacker muddiness of ‘mellow gold’ , to the heartbreak meltdown sorrow of ‘sea change’ and ‘mutations’, to the eclectic sound bite fragmentation of ‘odelay’, to the funky homage prince imitations in ‘midnite vultures’. its not so much that he is able to genre shift with such ease, its how each genre lends itself to him to mutate into something that is completely his.
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....or the mexican radio channel music backdrop of "guero" which has everyone scrambling for the tuner!
:)
i always thought the track "nobody's fault but my own " from mutations was pulled and sea change was written around it.
same feel same sound.
love beck too.
love anything beck,including that paragraph of yours. :)
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