Reading Inherent Vice

joaquin's vast array of confused expressions was something to behold

really loved the opening, with doc running a hand lamely along shasta's departing car, sloooooooowly succumbing to an expression of total paranoid dread, and getting hit in the face with the neon title

also iirc some v good faces as eric roberts (also slooooooooooowly) describes his bad hippie dream. for free.

i thought this was wonderful. joanna newsom is a totally great actress! the woman playing jade was incredible! yeah PTA has woman problems but he does cast well. god knows what he was up to casting belladonna but she was great too.

I really like Pynchon, especially Vineland and Lot 49, and I /hated/ this. We rented it on iTunes and couldn't be bothered to watch it to the end. Just felt way too forced and dull. Phoenix is fascinating but he's super annoying to watch art length. That sense of meaning being just out of reach, which works so well in Pynchon's prose where there's goofy jokes and all those amazing sentences to keep you going - Phoenix making googly eyes is not a substitution for that.

(Sorry)

Re reading this shit. So good.

A game of "drink whenever someone rolls their eyes at how dumb Doc is" would be fun.

"there's a problem with Ouija boards" - best part of the movie for me. A little joyful moment in the middle of the madness, a little (valid) paranoia still there tugging at you. Brilliant realization of a distinctively Pynchon moment, good job PTA.

yeah PTA has woman problems

Yeah.