just found out that jaqueline bisset is angelina jolie’s godmother.  that is so fucking cool!  i’ve never really been into tabloids the way all the trailer trash are — i haven’t had sympathy for famous people since i was a teenager.  to me they’ve always been representatives of an alien world of success and fame where i can never go, and therefore i do not consider their personal relationships to be significant — BUT now that i know that jacqueline bisset is angelina jolie’s godmother i feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  i’m so happy for them both.  i just finished watching francois truffaut’s “day for night” (in which bisset stars, hence looking her up on wikipedia) and i have this magical sentimental feeling of connection to a former lifetime, before i was thrust all unwilling into multidimensionality, when i believed in being a good person and that the american people would rise to the occasion of their responsiblity for world freedom.  seriously!  i used to believe dumb things like that!

what i mean is that “day for night” was made in 1974, before american politics was revealed to be hopelessly corrupt and malevolent, when serious people could still hope that humanity would not be completely debased by mass-media, when people still believed in common decency and other things like that . . . and watching movies from that era, when you could still believe that famous artists had the power to uplift and were not simply pawns in an ugly multi-billion dollar entertainment industry scam . . . well you could feel like a part of a society back then, even though the truth was awful, even though racism was worse and womens’ rights were less that was back before post-modernism and “theory” and reagan and all the other absurdities that crushed innocence and wonder out of existence. even though there was horrifying injustice you could still talk about “humanity” and “nobility of spirit” with a straight face.  it may seem like a bit of a stretch but that’s what a warm-hearted movie like “day for night” evokes in me, a nostalgia for a time when humanity had not been debased into the vile parody that it [has] now.  and it makes me feel good to find a small bit of evidence that there is continuity in that cold alien world of a couple of cool people who knew each other and managed to survive the holocaust that is occurring all around us.