An unseen muse tells Ray Kinsella to spend all of his time and money creating a thing without any clue as to what he’ll do with it. Sounds a lot like art to me.
What *is* it with the intersection of baseball movies and English majors? Definitely the most literary and cinematic sport. (See also, Bull Durham, in which Susan Sarandon is an English professor at the community college in Durham when she’s not a minor league groupie.)
I wrote about Bull Durham for this very newsletter and I forgot that detail about Sarandon's character. 😂 You're right though, I think it's the most literary sport. Could have something to do with the notion that a baseball game could, in theory, last forever?
Further add to this that the author W.P. Kinsella was an English professor at the University of Lethbridge. His short stories on baseball and his First Nations stories about Frank and Silas are wonderful reads.
"An English major myself, I was instantly determined to focus today’s piece on this throwaway factoid even if it meant reverse-engineering the rest of the narrative to fit my predetermined framework. (Which is a very English major thing to do.)" Relatable 😂
Fun fact: I'm 90% sure this was the first movie I ever watched that wasn't animated because it lived on top of the filing cabinet that held our VHS collection rather than it. I don't think I actually liked the movie all that much but I always had a strange compulsion to watch it and saw it several times in my youth. Could be that it only required me to pull up a chair to stand on rather than heave a heavy metal drawer open, but it could also be ✨the voices✨
Drove past this place just a few weeks ago. I have never stopped, but I guess I should one day.
Oh man! Has the film set been preserved like a museum or something?
I believe parts have been and in recent years they have tried to do better. They played a MLB game there a few years back.
Oh I forgot they did that game! Man I bet that was cool. Lots of folks hearing voices.
What *is* it with the intersection of baseball movies and English majors? Definitely the most literary and cinematic sport. (See also, Bull Durham, in which Susan Sarandon is an English professor at the community college in Durham when she’s not a minor league groupie.)
I wrote about Bull Durham for this very newsletter and I forgot that detail about Sarandon's character. 😂 You're right though, I think it's the most literary sport. Could have something to do with the notion that a baseball game could, in theory, last forever?
Further add to this that the author W.P. Kinsella was an English professor at the University of Lethbridge. His short stories on baseball and his First Nations stories about Frank and Silas are wonderful reads.
I didn't realize that! It all makes sense.
"An English major myself, I was instantly determined to focus today’s piece on this throwaway factoid even if it meant reverse-engineering the rest of the narrative to fit my predetermined framework. (Which is a very English major thing to do.)" Relatable 😂
I know you've been there a time or two. 😂 English majors unite!
Fun fact: I'm 90% sure this was the first movie I ever watched that wasn't animated because it lived on top of the filing cabinet that held our VHS collection rather than it. I don't think I actually liked the movie all that much but I always had a strange compulsion to watch it and saw it several times in my youth. Could be that it only required me to pull up a chair to stand on rather than heave a heavy metal drawer open, but it could also be ✨the voices✨
Oh man, I can picture that filing cabinet. You totally hear the voices too (except when they say "build it" they mean the Brasfield & Gorrie website).
how dare you remind me of my job during not-job hours