Little Miss S Is Back

Listening to Fractal Zoom by Brian Eno

Interesting this. I read Jean Stein's book some years ago at a time when John Cale was playing in Liverpool using the poster from Ciao! Manhattan. Thirty years gone!



We finally got around to watching Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind last night. I would like to comment on it in the style of the film but I don't think I'm up to it. You might be tempted to over-analyse this arguably great film though "great" usually suggests sweeping vistas and Omar Sharif riding out of a Mirage. There is so much happening, that I think a few viewings would be required to get the lot. And the ability to erase a memory is not so far away from being possible is it? If a trauma in someone's life can do it then a properly designed system could. I'm not certain that the computer method of pinpointing areas in the brain like that used in the film would do it - you have caught me still immersed in the brain states of Susan Greenfield - but a well-designed psychological process could achieve an erased person. This would probably have the beauty of being self-completing in that any memory of the defined target would be instantly 'forgotten' along with its associate memories. Physical 'brain damage' would miss out many things in the way Joel tried to get to happen by taking his memories of Clementine to unusual places. Kate Winslet was born to play this role.