From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:25:19 -0500


Glen,

You should really check out the early films of Godard sometimes. Now
that I think about them, Breathless, Alphaville, Pierre le Fou, Band of
Outsiders and Weekend are all imbued with the romance of car culture and
Godard does a good job of displaying their latent possibilities for
rebellion.

There seems to be a strong link in general between cars and movies.
Both follow a trajectory of motion, and as you say, contemporary culture
bereft of both the car and the motion picture are impossible to imagine.
Deleuze did a philosophy of the cinema in two volumes. Who will do a
similar philosophy of the automobile?  

By the way, when I talked about my bike, I meant bicycle.  When I got my
car, I immediately had a bicycle rack permanently mounted on the roof.
So you might say I am driving a modified vehicle with a neat accessory.
Pretty cool, huh?

eric