Sounds from a town I love
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 10:09AM I'm surprised I haven't put any Woody Allen up here yet but now seems a good time with this little film he made shortly after 9/11 to support New York City. It's about overheard conversations on mobile phones (or cellphones as they say in America). It's not his best work but I like the idea of it. And it seems to fit here because I've just written two Very Stationary Mobile Phone stories for my one man show. I do find mobile phones weird. How quickly we've got used to them, how it's just normal now to talk loudly to yourself and not care if anyone is listening. How we expect everyone to have them. And how odd texting is - who would have thought we'd be typing messages on a phone to each other? Developing another language. I didn't see that coming but I suppose I don't have to. Phew.



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