In re: junk, Michael Pollan makes the very good point in The Omnivore's Dilemma that much of what lines grocery store aisles is not actually food, even if it may look like it at first glance. It's one or possibly even two generations removed from actual cut-from-the-cow or plucked-from-the-soil. Much the same could be said for the literary candy bar.
Bingo.
My big question, which I was hesitant to ask yesterday but for which time has apparently given me courage, is how you feel about comparisons between the Gable film and things like Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Projects.
The comparisons are inescapable. And as I am a fan of both Cloverfield and The Blair With Project (first film; had enough sense not to see the second), not unwelcome, though I know people are jaded. I love metafiction, and I'm always willing the play along.
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Date: 2009-07-28 06:09 pm (UTC)In re: junk, Michael Pollan makes the very good point in The Omnivore's Dilemma that much of what lines grocery store aisles is not actually food, even if it may look like it at first glance. It's one or possibly even two generations removed from actual cut-from-the-cow or plucked-from-the-soil. Much the same could be said for the literary candy bar.
Bingo.
My big question, which I was hesitant to ask yesterday but for which time has apparently given me courage, is how you feel about comparisons between the Gable film and things like Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Projects.
The comparisons are inescapable. And as I am a fan of both Cloverfield and The Blair With Project (first film; had enough sense not to see the second), not unwelcome, though I know people are jaded. I love metafiction, and I'm always willing the play along.