17 JAN 07
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. . .
"Hey, what's on TV?"
[notes from what we said & heard, what we watched]
Brought home, but no one can remember back that far.
She's a photographer. It's out there.
"Remember how we talked about how we go back into the earth-- into the world--?" --A.L.
get the fan going (they're always in a wind)
this is the movie where the guy is living possibly alone, it's all revealed very gradually
her commitment to doing it, and whoever she is
The world of...
it's just a life, what's around you
"I like the family pictures"
"I hate families"
more than most people, she knows
"I don't know what it is to be a great photographer"
"I bought a camera--it had a little needle inside. I started to use
the base darkroom. This is how I learned to take pictures."-A.L.
He has a camera too (I don't say that lightly)
ferment
"achieve a level" (an expression)
"it made you think that you were thinking"
Imagine all the things that didn't change or got worse.
"A lot can be told from what happens in between."--A.L.
but now it's being summed up as it happens
"Oh, that one I don't remember."--K. Richards
Imagine if our parents...
You have the memory. But you might as well be one of those robots they give the memory to.
. . .
