Friday, August 06, 2010
Feeling very small. I just got home from seeing Mother Of Rock, the MIFF documentary about journalist Lillian Roxon. It left me feeling very small and mediocre.
Roxon worked like a dog, was always poor and died prematurely, fat and alone. But at least her work was incisive and influential, and she had lots of sex. By contrast, I work like a dog for little result that I can see, and I am probably going to die poor, fat and alone… after a drawn-out life of celibate mediocrity.
There would be no reason to make a documentary about me.
Roxon worked like a dog, was always poor and died prematurely, fat and alone. But at least her work was incisive and influential, and she had lots of sex. By contrast, I work like a dog for little result that I can see, and I am probably going to die poor, fat and alone… after a drawn-out life of celibate mediocrity.
There would be no reason to make a documentary about me.
