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An email from one of our (my) international readers:

Dear Mr. Furious,

As a loyal reader of the website/blog, I feel very unsatisfied recently. Every time I go in search of my daily anger catalyst I come out empty. I, and all your readers deserve more posts! We need more reasons to shake our heads at the world and its absurd idiosyncrasies. Start writing more!

Yours truely,

Vadim the Avshalumov Dream

To which I respond…

Thank you, Mr. Dream, for your letter. I have sent you a “The Furious Romantic” T-shirt in the mail as a peace offering. I don’t have your address, though, so I sent it to your cousin Hakeem Olajuwon. I hope that he’ll be able to get it to you sometime soon.

I assure you that I am still angered, everyday, by the idiosyncrasies of the world (particularly the Western World). But Big Project continues to dominate my life and I do not have much time to stew and/or boil over - even in the face of so much silliness. Soon I will return full force, to catalyze and to entertain, but for now…

…just do what I do when you find your temperature rising. Drink and pursue beautiful things.

Until the next time,

The Furious Romantic

Boom.

Quick film recommendation and then The Furious Romantic needs to get back to his (active!) yelling.

Was perusing the home page of IMDb for only the fourth time today and I noticed that this film, Reprise, is finally opening in U.S. theaters. I say finally because I saw it in a packed house at the Museum of Modern Art literally a year ago. The director’s name is Joachim Trier, he’s a Norwegian filmmaker, and I have a feeling that we’ll be hearing from him again sometime in the near future.

My lady love and I both came out of this film feeling very much moved. It ain’t big and bold, but it’s one of those pieces of art that just feel…honest. The direction and cinematography and the acting are all very good. It’s funny and energetic and poignant all at once (hooray!).

Go see.

Peek-A-Boogie. I am alive.