Last night I watched Jackie Brown (on Netflix), a Tarantino movie.

Nice movie.

Robert De Niro plays a strange supporting role, a daft accomplice of arms dealer Samuel L. Jackson. I thought: the big De Niro playing such a non-descript character, that's fantastic.

More thoughts.

I saw the movie was based on a book of Elmore Leonard, I writer I had never heard of, but I recently watch an interesting video about him. The role Samuel L. Jackson plays reminds me of his role in Kingsman: The Secret Service. A ruthless criminal shot in the climax of the movie. And then on comparing these stories: Jackie Brown is a way more interesting story than the flat action-movie story of Kingsman.

This one is coming...

Yesterday I viewed this old video created probably when Douglas Coupland's book Generation-A appeared.

Coupland is lying on the sofa, and is interviewed by a female computer voice. The voice reminds me of the movie Her (which I started watching two times, but never managed to finish). The interview with Coupland is regularly interrupted for weird advertisements for Channel 3 (We Speak Your Language) and the drug SOLON CR (It's me time). I only vaguely remembered the SOLON CR reference from the book; all I am sure about is that the book is about bees going extinct. But the Internet tells me my memory is correct. SOLON CR is a medicine prescribed"for the short-term treatment of psychological unease grounded in obsession in thinking about the near and distant feature."

American writer Paul Auster on his writing process, and making art.

“Now it's also instinctive I'm barely aware of what I'm doing but at the same time I don't write fast and I've never written fast. For me a good day's work, and this is eight hours of work, a good day’s work is if I have one typed page at the end. One or two pages is great, three is a miracle. You know it happens maybe four times a year that I can do three pages but if I get the one page done I feel satisfied.”