tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post6806631417283464971..comments2023-10-05T10:19:06.886-05:00Comments on Blogonomicon: Dreams of a Life (documentary, 2011)AlanDPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-61094345679484332652013-02-18T16:59:32.050-06:002013-02-18T16:59:32.050-06:00I don't know if anyone claimed any of this wom...I don't know if anyone claimed any of this woman's stuff, they didn't say. But they did show dramatizations of a clean-up crew in biohazard suits cleaning up the apartment. One of the items they found scattered on the floor were a large number of old R&B 45s that she liked to listen to. One of them was still on her old record player. The groceries she had brought home were still mostly left out on her kitchen counter--one item was a quart of milk she had apparently just bought and taken a few swallows from. Strange and sad.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-77374657681085570032013-02-17T22:27:40.017-06:002013-02-17T22:27:40.017-06:00I generally eschew depressing movies. But that rem...I generally eschew depressing movies. But that reminds me of a TV show I saw recently. I think it was about those guys that do biohazard cleanups, like at crime scenes and such. In the scene I remember, the cleanup crew was clearing out an apartment in New York where the tenant had died. He lived alone, and he had some low level job in the service industry. He wasn't missed right away, and the first indication something was wrong was when the tenants in the apartment below noticed odors and other substances and reported it. I don't remember if any family members came forward to claim his body, but nobody wanted to claim his possessions, and the crew had no choice but to throw it all out.<br /><br />Anyway, in the course of cleaning up this guy's apartment, the crew found his fashion drawings. He had stacks of artist pads and notebooks of drawings and paintings, and they all seemed quite good, to me at least. It was obvious that he had aspirations of breaking into the fashion industry someday.<br /><br />But he apparently never made it. And the cleanup crew tossed all those drawings into the trash with the rest of the refuse.<br /><br />Kind of sad. I can't imagine watching a whole movie about that.Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156254141379602471noreply@blogger.com