Morning with Jeremy, Brooklyn"Wes will just get what he wants in the end anyway, and it will be better for it, but everyone just fights it for no reason. So that's what I do all the time: manage needless opposition."
I feel happy for Jeremy this morning. Or sad. No, I don't feel either. He is the important person the way an important person is important when they are not there. He is not there so he doesn't have to buzz around and make things happen through sheer force of energy. He is on the phone, three thousand miles away, relaying information, calming fears, soothing opposition. Bill Murray may bring his brood to the screening tomorrow. Oh boy will that stress everyone out! Maybe not. It will all be ok. My son asks me to name of everything on the table. I reply instinctively in English first, then, if I think about it, in Spanish, then French. If I know the French word. The pancakes aren't as good as Aldo's and we aren't at Egg either, but the grapefruit juice is top notch. Afterward, I'll hope that Jeremy's importance in the process that is important to someone else nominally important will rub off on me and make me important by osmosis. I'll not realize that I'm hoping this until it is too late. Jeremy is on the phone the entire breakfast. It is a shoot day in London and he is in Brooklyn eating French toast. I brought the good syrup in a brown paper bag, but forgot it in the car. My son is eating the bad syrup. On the way to work, a teenager with longer legs than mine trips over a curb. I think to myself watch where you're going, this is a sidewalk not Disney Land.
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i know i am stretching the limits of Jeremy's reach here, but... i wonder if by commenting on this post - i could perhaps get a little bit of a buzz started about me in and around Seattle -
Just did baby.
I happen to know the details of curran's morning. he called at 8:14 am and walked me through it. Our rowdy conversation awoke my insomniac roommate and there was a pounding on the wall. You could tell the roommate was angry. The kind of ruthless anger that comes with a rude awakening. I apologized later and he knew it was all unintentional but you could tell it wasn't sitting well.
You have got to get rid of that roommate. And the Curran legend grows. . .
where is jeremy? is he still here or has he flown away like some shy galapagos finch. is there such a thing, freely?
i was out at a party on saturday night, and someone put on the life aquatic soundtrack, this provided me a cue to talk about the upcoming Wes anderson movie - and then i mentioned something about, how Wes is going to get what he wants anyway - so there is no reason to fight it. People in seattle aren't excited about that sort of commentary, I'm pretty sure no one knew that wes anderson directed those movies.
so, in conclusion - yes, i did get a little bit of a buzz going through indirect contact, but no - it was mostly in this little forum - and yes, that is satisfying in itself.
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