Obsequio– it wasn’t clear to me either the first time I watched it, so I was psyched my kid noticed the blurriness there, as the dad/jealous boyfriend ambiguity is part of the storyline. My kid came home from school feeling stupid after having difficulty understanding a Robert Frost poem in her 8th grade English class, so I told her about how poems are compressed, precise language, and like a good movie or video, what’s there is condensed and intentional, that you just have to interpret/unpack what’s there.

I played her the Watch the Corners video and asked her what she thought of the scene where the dad is making his model airplanes while his daughter picks at her dinner and she said she didn’t know. I asked, ‘Well, who builds model airplanes?’ and she said, “A kid.” I asked what’s that say about the dad and she said, ‘He’s like a big kid.’ I’m like, right, now go do that with Frost’s “Bereft.”

Empire2, are they really all American rejects? I thought they’re all pretty sympathetic characters, but maybe that’s because I like mayonnaise. 🙂 It’s family life, first jobs, LA palm trees and concrete, teen angst, bad boys, rocknroll, good times, bad times, you know I’ve had my share, etc. Tim Heidecker is great in this.

If you want to look at a video of blacknuss while listening to a song, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsYa9iFcyss

The bass part at the beginning reminds me a bit of the guitar intro in Almost Fare.