An advantage to knowing local geeks is that they can recommend good optometrists. Brand new pair of glasses on the way, and the morning papers are back given that perl appears to be behaving itself.
Karl sung the praises of "Gerry", but the film had less of an effect on me even if I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue. This is chiefly because I have seen the techniques within it used to a greater extreme in a movie called "Werckmeister Harmonies" which I saw almost two years ago. It was in black and white, sparse in conversation and lacking almost completely in background music. Recalling my feelings at the time:
Posted by sniffles at April 29, 2003 12:32 PM[...] I experienced the queerest sensory shock upon walking out of the beautiful Forum Theatre into the freezing Tuesday night air after Werckmeister Harmonies. It was as if my senses have been re-calibrated: reality was sharper in sight, sound and feel; the passing, indifferent hum of what traffic there was at midnight, our footsteps thudding on the pavement as we made our way to the car.