Empire

I sort of love live bloggings. They're so much fun to read. I've done one myself (The 51st Annual Eurovision Song Contest, which was fun) and I keep wanting to live blog Footloose because of all the movies with live blogging potential, Footloose is right up there! So it was with glee that I read a sorta-semi-quasi live blog of Andy Warhol's 'Empire'. "Empire?" I hear you say. Yes, That is Warhol's eight hour cinematic oddball movie where he just set up a camera and filmed the Empire State Building between dusk and dawn. I'm not sure if I could ever sit through all eight hours of the stuff, but Peter Howell did and while it's not a constant live blog (how on earth could you do that when nothing happens on screen for literally hours at a time), but it's an on-the-hour-every-hour thought piece and it's fascinating. Why, for instance, would you show up five hours into the piece? And I just like reading all the funny sarcastic moments.

Wow. Somebody switched the floodlights on for the top third of the building. I guess that’s the big plot twist.

After reading the whole thing, it does seem that that is the most exciting moment of the film. Yahoo! If this experiment (it can't really be called anything else, can it?) is ever released on DVD (it screened in Toronto as part of a Warhol exhibit) I may just have to get myself a copy and sit down to at least attempt a viewing. If I fail at least I can say I tried.

Also, The Breaking & Entering trailer. Interesting.