i had no intention of writing this when i set out to find out something about the show that i wasn't sure of(HBO or SHO)...but then i started reading the comments... i guess i knew from the first episode that this, like deadwood, wouldn't last...i sometimes got the feeling that the writers knew it, too...it was part of the show's 'wobble'...
deadwood, to me, was like Shakespeare set in the wild west...that's how i described it to people that i wanted to get interested in the show...no one came back disappointed...
but, as far as i'm concerned, that's where(besides the great writing) the comparisons need to stop... still, it would seem, from many of the reactions, that JFC was somewhat over some people's heads...probably about 3 feet over their heads. that might seem funny if you know the show... and, beLIEVE me...i'm NOT putting people down for not getting it or being angry over one aspect of the show or another...
a)when i first tried, after someone i thought of as musically well informed suggested it, to listen to steely dan's work(mostly 'pretzel logic'. this was in '74/75), i felt like, 'well i ALmost get it...'. and, being a musician and nyer, i felt i SHOULD've gotten it. and so i felt left out. and frustrated. cuz i knew it DID make sense from SOME perspective...some place of experience i, at 20something, hadn't arrived at yet...and that smudged my mirror...
b) i didn't like the second indiana jones movie. but, recently, speaking to people about it...YOUNGer people(not that i FEEL old...i just AM ;-), who said, 'i LOVED it', i realized...'DUH! that movie wasn't MADE for me...!!!' but i was glad for the first time realizing that there were a LOT of people who really got a kick out of it...
c)and, i'm sure you'll be happy, the last part... 'JFC' is zen on a surfboard...either is difficult...BOTH? near impossible to balance well...unless you know/feel the sound of one wave rolling... it helps to remember that there IS a valid form of art known as 'impressionism'...emotions/feelings are not only not mathematical... but they're also not predictable...chaotic, at times b/c they must react to the unexpected/unpredictable... you can not like it if that's where you're at, but to even TRY and invalidate it? i think that's more telling about someone having that sort of reaction than what the show, itself, offers... at least i'm glad for john, wherever he's gone back to...
and for you detractors... try starting out with steely dan and work your way up the abstract ladder... it might take 30 years or so, but it worked for me. shaka bra...
deadwood, to me, was like Shakespeare set in the wild west...that's how i described it to people that i wanted to get interested in the show...no one came back disappointed...
but, as far as i'm concerned, that's where(besides the great writing) the comparisons need to stop... still, it would seem, from many of the reactions, that JFC was somewhat over some people's heads...probably about 3 feet over their heads. that might seem funny if you know the show... and, beLIEVE me...i'm NOT putting people down for not getting it or being angry over one aspect of the show or another...
a)when i first tried, after someone i thought of as musically well informed suggested it, to listen to steely dan's work(mostly 'pretzel logic'. this was in '74/75), i felt like, 'well i ALmost get it...'. and, being a musician and nyer, i felt i SHOULD've gotten it. and so i felt left out. and frustrated. cuz i knew it DID make sense from SOME perspective...some place of experience i, at 20something, hadn't arrived at yet...and that smudged my mirror...
b) i didn't like the second indiana jones movie. but, recently, speaking to people about it...YOUNGer people(not that i FEEL old...i just AM ;-), who said, 'i LOVED it', i realized...'DUH! that movie wasn't MADE for me...!!!' but i was glad for the first time realizing that there were a LOT of people who really got a kick out of it...
c)and, i'm sure you'll be happy, the last part... 'JFC' is zen on a surfboard...either is difficult...BOTH? near impossible to balance well...unless you know/feel the sound of one wave rolling... it helps to remember that there IS a valid form of art known as 'impressionism'...emotions/feelings are not only not mathematical... but they're also not predictable...chaotic, at times b/c they must react to the unexpected/unpredictable... you can not like it if that's where you're at, but to even TRY and invalidate it? i think that's more telling about someone having that sort of reaction than what the show, itself, offers... at least i'm glad for john, wherever he's gone back to...
and for you detractors... try starting out with steely dan and work your way up the abstract ladder... it might take 30 years or so, but it worked for me. shaka bra...