What This Book Presupposes Is: Maybe He Didn’t?

Today is my birthday. As of 10 am, I have watched The Royal Tenenbaums twice – once through watching the film proper, the second time with Wes Anderson’s commentary. I am becoming quite sure that this is my favorite film.

I woke up far earlier than normal, I just couldn’t sleep well at all. The most aggravating thing about the sleep that I did get was that I was having painfully mundane dreams about reading the Wilson & Alroy Record Reviews website. I like the site a lot and find it very useful; but the writers tend to frequently get on my bad side by smugly dismissing a lot of things that I like, by seemingly judging music primarily based on technical musical merit, and deemphasizing emotional and intellectual aspects of music appreciation. Still, their passionate enthusiasm for the artists that they do love (ie Stevie Wonder, Prince, Joni Mitchell) is convincing; and they mostly review entire discographies which is my personal favorite way of reading a critique of an artist.