Vision Questing

It's Thor's day . . . and another lovely pre-Spring day is at hand in TulseyTown. Jonquils are pushing up in my tiny cottage flower bed. Ah, but this is Okieland which usually means Winter ain't over.

In the mailbox today, some motion picture milestone notes:

It's the birthdate of James Dean in 1931 Marion, Indiana.

Lana Turner was born on this day in 1920 Wallace, Idaho.

Nick Nolte turns 82 today, born in 1941, Omaha, Nebraska.

Martin Scorsese's film, Taxi Driver, started screening in theatres today in 1976 after its premier release on February 7th.

Composer John Williams is celebrating his 92nd birthday today. He was born in 1932, Queens, New York .

A “vision quest” is not the recipe for a screenplay or video game or another “Two Buck Chuck” discovery … The myths and rituals that gave meaning to earlier societies, shaping and enriching the lives of individuals and knitting them into the larger community, weren’t designed to serve as marketplace commodities or theme park attractions. When the quest is degraded in such a way, we all suffer. – Ted Gioia, on his substack novella Music to Raise the Dead