tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post8690458547415443531..comments2023-09-18T02:56:01.703-07:00Comments on Walter Kirn's Permanent Morning: My Facts (Includes true personal George Clooney and Jorge L Borges anecdotes)Walter Kirn or "Walt"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791836439071305007noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-62589102595299526682011-02-25T21:25:07.664-08:002011-02-25T21:25:07.664-08:00Celebrity encounters are like emotional drive-bys ...Celebrity encounters are like emotional drive-bys because sometimes they date-stamp themselves into your memory. I once met Illya Kuryakin (aka David McCallum) in an audition waiting room in 1993. Perhaps not Beckett, but I was equally speechless because I figured Illya would have known Kafka.VegasGhostDudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12777223129606457747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-91522933545385451802011-02-25T09:11:21.788-08:002011-02-25T09:11:21.788-08:00Having been born and educated in MN I have to ask ...Having been born and educated in MN I have to ask - what is your hometown?Barbara Eiden-Molinarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18438893873796700133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-64997670077011756902011-02-25T07:19:00.622-08:002011-02-25T07:19:00.622-08:00I've watched Robert Downey Jr.'s career si...I've watched Robert Downey Jr.'s career since maybe The Pick-Up Artist and thoroughly enjoy him. Read your piece on him and thought it was articulate and observant. If I were ever to write a screenplay he'd be a muse for me to be certain.<br /><br />I'm happy you're blogging. It's nice to read a blog where the writer is indeed a writer.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711032702309225366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-27823773702074064412011-02-24T22:53:36.558-08:002011-02-24T22:53:36.558-08:00Cachoritta. Wow. Love how you play that word horn....Cachoritta. Wow. Love how you play that word horn. Neal Cassady is making a comeback. With me too.Walter Kirn or "Walt"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09791836439071305007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-19264136494100045632011-02-24T20:39:54.730-08:002011-02-24T20:39:54.730-08:00i watched up in the air on hbo last christmas with...i watched up in the air on hbo last christmas with my folks, and i was a bit worried that it would be a tale of george clooney handsomely jettisoning all emotional attachments and becoming an air-based sex robot and isn't this a wonderful brave new world? if it was that story, i would've hated it--i moved around a lot as a kid, therefore most of my relationships are 2- to 3-year fragments of fading memory, nothing worth hanging your hat on (though that's changed a bit over the past 5 years). when i was younger, i fancied myself a crusading world traveler who would need or be needed by no one, but i think i was just validating my failure to make lasting relationships and my overwhelming hatred for the exurbs. believe it or not, i really like the idea of rootedness and stability and interdependence--and i kind of feel bad about it, like i'm giving up on my earlier pretense towards rugged individualism. i was worried up in the air would make me feel worse about wanting roots but it actually made me feel better about it and work through some shit. anyway i should probably read the bookAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-2817419751321694762011-02-24T20:19:54.129-08:002011-02-24T20:19:54.129-08:00this is great. I almost think I can even see a you...this is great. I almost think I can even see a young Brad Pitt here. My celebrity hole is getting filled. Thank you. <br />I had a celebrity citing in an airport once. Timothy Leary in his last year.<br />Guessing the Sun Also Rises even if it's wrong.mi2pidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13737033205025767599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-33955786625395138902011-02-24T18:43:17.421-08:002011-02-24T18:43:17.421-08:00I'm glad you think it's a great book. And ...I'm glad you think it's a great book. And yes, the movie was exceptionally enjoyable, I thought, though it was very much the personal vision of the writer-director and was, in an odd way, both less comic and less tragic than the novel. Both were about loneliness, though, and addiction, perhaps, and how all that is solid is melting into air -- and now air is melting into code. We evolved to live on earth. Are we really prepared to leave it? Anyway, the transition from book to movie from the point of view of the book writer. It's like a mushroom trip going out of control. Faces swell. The heart pounds. Weird moments of existential desolation descend. Then all of a sudden everyone is laughing. You're not sure why. Then you grow very, very tired. When you wake up you have crazy cool memories but you feel neurologically, spiritually depleted. It's like that,Walter Kirn or "Walt"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09791836439071305007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-83062621514918045952011-02-24T17:36:03.638-08:002011-02-24T17:36:03.638-08:00Up in the Air is a great book. I enjoyed the movie...Up in the Air is a great book. I enjoyed the movie as well, curious what you thought of it. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts about the process of a book becoming a movie.trileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430221429400448628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-18400215115681306152011-02-24T17:18:24.668-08:002011-02-24T17:18:24.668-08:00Great stuff. The Beckett especially. Never felt ...Great stuff. The Beckett especially. Never felt anything similar. <br /><br />Keep posting. <br /><br />Frank MoliternoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com