if you're faithful enough to be gracing our site right now with your presence, then you're sneaking a peek at tomorrow's scheduled blog post a bit early.  (it's midnight monday, my time.)  my early-birding is peeking for two reasons.  1.) tomorrow promises to be a hectic day of planning for our webisode shoot on saturday and 2.) just moments ago, i finished reading the book which i want to write of today, and i want to write while what i'm feeling is fresh.

so here it is, the great, great, great, great book i'm bringing into the fold of the SoGoPro book club, the film club by david gilmour.  

of the 24 books i've read this year, it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best read i've had so far.  it is the memoir of a man, david gilmour, who rather reluctantly allows his son jesse to drop out of high school under the agreement that he must watch three movies a week with his father.  it is a very simple tale, and perhaps it is because of its lack of any pretensions that i find myself so attached to it.  

(i'd like to mention briefly that any time i read a memoir, curiosity strikes in me as to how much of a creative license one takes with the events of their past, especially conversations that are in quotes.  i'm going to look into this...)

if you love film, you will love this book.  easy peasy.  no doubt.  while the main focus of the writing takes shape in how the movies david shares with his son happen to relate to the post-adolescent trials and tribulations jesse is encountering w/ school, girls, and becoming a man, gilmour also shares with the reader some remarkably beautiful insights into these films.  worth it to mention, gilmour was a film critic for the canadian news program, the journal, so it's not just fluff.  the love he has for film flows through his writing, and has done me the great honor of reminding me what it is that i love about film.  the small and wondrous, brief and lasting moments that i think, as someone who has come to heavily criticize my own work and that of others (by necessity to make my work better), they are moments i've begun to take for granted, that i've forgotten.  i want to watch movies again like david gilmour watches movies, like i used to.  i need to give myself the two hours a week to watch one great movie.  reading this book was a hard thump in my face that i need that, and i deserve it.  the last movie i watched was 27 dresses, playing as noise on hbo while i sent out 17 emails...   

i'm going to do this.  and i'm going to share my journey with you.  hold me to it.

i'll also add that david gilmour is a no-bullshit father of the most applaud-worthy type.  

please read this book.  it won't disappoint.

also, i was just able to download my pre-ordered copy of ANIMAL KINGDOM'S new record, "signs and wonders." it's got me looking so crazy right now!  

yours/n.gray