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Spent the weekend reading through the manuscript of my book on Jean-Luc Godard and making final corrections. I hate to sound immodest, my children, but fuck me, this is some good work I've done here. This is the best book I've ever read on Godard and I wrote it.

Sorry.

By a stroke of luck, on this New Wave weekend, my local cinema was today showing Franois Truffaut's La Nuit amricaine, which I'd never seen. It's certainly very lively and a lot of fun, but really rather broad. Le Mpris, it ain't. But you can see why Truffaut identified so strongly with Jean-Pierre Laud: they're both equally hyperactive.

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So I guess you're all away enjoying Fourth of July barbecues or whatever, which would account for why it feels kinda quiet on this site tonight. It's funny, the Fourth of July barely registers over here - it's just another day and I probably wouldn't even have noticed if it wasn't for all you lot. Maybe, as a nation, we've suppressed the date because of the traumatic memory of losing the war!