Sonny, yours is the first review I’ve read of Anderson’s latest. I don’t think I need anything further. I’m a Wes fan so would see it regardless of your opinion (with all respect). As a reviewer/critic, you choose what your key points will be. Your closing comments in this review say at least as much about your human-ness as about Anders…
Sonny, yours is the first review I’ve read of Anderson’s latest. I don’t think I need anything further. I’m a Wes fan so would see it regardless of your opinion (with all respect). As a reviewer/critic, you choose what your key points will be. Your closing comments in this review say at least as much about your human-ness as about Anderson’s. I appreciate you both for making me think
Wonder how your thoughts on that AI issue were especially triggered by the use of Anderson style in the discussion? Essay question, no chatbots allowed 😉
oh yeah I read that and it totally triggered me, lol, at least in part because a lot of the discussion about Anderson is ALREADY so reductive, like, the whole "he just does twee symmetry, why is he so precious," etc.
Yeah the colors & costumes & soundtrack are really his main tools, right? 😉
Starting in the ‘60s I trained on LP records. Learned to leaf thru a thesaurus.
So I can do a passable gravel/nasal twang with random rhyming words. But me & my infinite monkeys never wrote Blowing in the Wind, All Along the Watchtower, Not Dark Yet, Key West…
Sonny, yours is the first review I’ve read of Anderson’s latest. I don’t think I need anything further. I’m a Wes fan so would see it regardless of your opinion (with all respect). As a reviewer/critic, you choose what your key points will be. Your closing comments in this review say at least as much about your human-ness as about Anderson’s. I appreciate you both for making me think
Wonder how your thoughts on that AI issue were especially triggered by the use of Anderson style in the discussion? Essay question, no chatbots allowed 😉
oh yeah I read that and it totally triggered me, lol, at least in part because a lot of the discussion about Anderson is ALREADY so reductive, like, the whole "he just does twee symmetry, why is he so precious," etc.
Yeah the colors & costumes & soundtrack are really his main tools, right? 😉
Starting in the ‘60s I trained on LP records. Learned to leaf thru a thesaurus.
So I can do a passable gravel/nasal twang with random rhyming words. But me & my infinite monkeys never wrote Blowing in the Wind, All Along the Watchtower, Not Dark Yet, Key West…