Adam Golaski
My blogs
| Introduction | is the author of Color Plates and Worse Than Myself, and the editor of The Problem of Boredom in Paradise, from Flim Forum Press. |
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| Favorite Movies | The traveler wakes at 6:30 A.M. in another man's body. He hasn't this man's memories, but he's done this before and is clever about determining who he is; he is no one of great import. A good job in an office, no girlfriend (he is heterosexual; his last relationship ended when she met the man she would marry), and a small apartment in an okay part of town. This mundane life is richly detailed. As viewers become passionate about the man the traveler inhabits, he wakes in another man's body. The film ends. |
| Favorite Music | Electronic beats mingled with looped and tape-defiled string passages reveal a narrative hidden deep in the disk's second track: an elderly man in blue trousers and a white t-shirt recounts to a neighbor a story from his past he hasn't spoken of in several decades. He backed his Cadillac over a child, "A boy named Henry" (thus the title of the album). The elderly man also talks about the single mother who moved into the apartment above his own. "Her son, " he says, "was born with only half of his brain. At night he screams." The album ends when the man simply states: "My wife died in 1985." |