Brian is away until next weekend so my diet so far has consisted of tea and (fancy! new!) red Peeps. Snow has been falling for over twenty-four hours so I'm not about to leave the apartment. Used tea bags are filling up the sink.
Today has been mythical singer-songwriter documentary day. Don't Look Back left me sort of cold, perhaps because Bob figures so largely in popular memory. However, it was nice to see him speak in normal sentences since I often imagine him as the giant floating head from the Academy Awards a few years ago.
Jandek On Corwood was a fascinating film about a mystery man. Most of the film is various fans and critics discussing the man himself. Apparently he exists in some alternate world, just slightly off sync with our own. He is a dream artist for fans and critics--they can pick apart obtuse clues in an unfolding mystery. Bob rarely takes off his sunglasses in a "look at me--don't look at me" manner. Jandek, in contrast, just hovers just out of view.
