I shot a cell phone photo of a block of copy from the New York Times to remind myself to look into the program at Brooklyn Academy of Music curated by Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman pertaining to science fiction films and especially “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” It reminded me of my professor of film studies at Dartmouth Al LaValley who wrote a nice introduction to the Rutgers Press version of the Jack Finney novel. The image below also calls to mind a Gerhard Richter work. As I am off to Noise Pop at Public Works on Erie (14th and Mission, according to Zeitgeist’s agent Leslie) to hear and perhaps interact with Wesley Stace pka John Wesley Harding (“By George”, something else re music recently reviewed in NY Times), I do not have time, dear cheated and short-changed reader, to suggest which GR’s fit the bill: the Sonic Youth album cover with the blurry candle flame?

I found one blog that referenced both LaValley and Hoberman.

Also working on a political post regarding the civic meeting I attended last week in which a rep from a huge corporation was telling the representative government how they were going to have their way with us wee John Q. Public types. I mean to compare it to “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with the formidable robots from outer space as the corporate mouth piece. LaValley’s thesis re science fiction is that a lot of the work was paranoia about the cold war, and the link between conformity and McCarthyism. Don’t become a pod, dudes.

http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2925

from NY Times about Hobermania at BAM Brooklyn