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she made it possible to care about movies without feeling pompous or giddy by showing that what comes first in everyone's experience of a movie isn't the form or the idea but the sensation, and that this is just as true for moviegoers who have been taught to intellectualize their responses to art as it is for everyone else. [...]

what is important and bracing is that she relates movies to other experiences, to ideas and attitudes, to ambition, books, money, other movies, to politics and the evolving culture, to moods of the audience, to our sense of ourselves — to what movies do to us, the acute and self-scrutinizing awareness of which is always at the core of her judgment.

- lawrence van gelder, "pauline kael, provocative and widely imitated film critic, dies at 82"

i woke up in the morning (6am or so) with a dream in my eyes. i scrawled it on an index card (inspired by a friend, they're all over my apartment now), and tonight, when i went back to it, this is what i could make out: i was in a music video, maybe even for someone like sting, and the main scene was a trail of us, each walking alongside a wolf. something was gay about the whole thing, like maybe all of us in the video were, or we were walking towards a gay event, and there was a bald leader guy (not sting) who said something about "not only did it push past 42% of the nerve endings, but it pushed past the bad stuff inside." then he said, "i don't know about you, but i've seen enough nights where it's about going back to where you were before, not foraging ahead for a new beginning and path."

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