New Poem: THE TAYLOR SWIFT JAKE GYLLENHAAL RAMBLE

 she made records he made movies and they got together and she was an old soul when it came to business but young enough to still believe in love as something that mattered more than mere material for song lyrics but he was ten years older and steeped in the ways of the world as he saw it and when the breakup came he apparently said something about how the age difference made a difference and therefore he was okay with leaving and it crushed her like a pomegranate then she turned heartbreak into no ordinary end of relationship song but made a film about it and sang for ten minutes on SNL with audible grief of youth still real and ever-present in the thirtyish woman telling fans don’t walk down this particular path if you don’t yet have self awareness and especially don’t give yourself to a man who may regard you as no more than a mere trifle

A few words on NIGHTCRAWLER.

Adapted from post-viewing impressions I left on Twitter last night:
NIGHTCRAWLER **1/2 of ****. Sometimes effective, other times cartoonish story of garrulous sociopath/self-made TV news cameraman. NIGHTCRAWLER is what a collaboration between Paddy Chayefsky, Barry Levinson and Joel Schumacher might have looked like--NETWORK, JIMMY HOLLYWOOD and FALLING DOWN all mashed together. To be fair to writer/director Dan Gilroy, NIGHTCRAWLER can be spot on as a study in LA desperation and amorality, but also too comfy with easy cynicism--notably its finale.