everybody’s gotta learn sometime

One of my favorite covers ever, by Beck, from a memorable movie about erasing memories, written by one of my favorite screenwriters ever, Charlie Kaufman. Unlikely, but if you’ve never seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Adaptation, or Being John Malkovich, or… (well, you can view his entire filmography here), I highly recommend committing some time and attention to them. Keep an eye open also for Kaufman’s newest writing and debut directorial effort, Synecdoche, New York, to be released in ‘08. A few reviews of the script are out there, and so far no surprises and loads of adjectives such as “ambitious, epic, astounding, sublime, scary” and ”completely illogical”. For me, utter intrigue as to what he might accomplish by adding his own direction to his own inimitable writing. 

Bonus feature and some fun film trivia for you: This is from the movie “Being John Malkovich” and is on the director’s commentary. Apparently an extra on the film got drunk, and decided to throw one of his beer cans at John Malkovich. The director (Spike Jonze) liked the scene so much that he left it in the film. The extra got his SAG card and a pay raise since he now had a line in the movie. Just goes to show that for better (the extra) or for worse (Malkovich), life can throw some interesting surprises (and beer cans) at you every now and then, just when you least expect it.

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