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BAD HUJU - A LOVE SPELL FOR FALL

If you would like to go on a date and force the person you are dating to fall in love with you, here is what you do. You take them to the library for a private screening of a Warren Sonbert movie, one with sound and color. Warren Sonbert's movies aren't on DVD, and I don't know what your library has. The New York Public Library only has a couple of his later ones on 16mm reels. Sonbert is this director from 1970s New York who edited together images of his friends, and set it to music. It somehow is killing and euphoric.

We watched Friendly Witness, Carriage Trade, and Hall of Mirrors. Friendly Witness was the first one we watched, and even though we've spent ten years privately railing against this kind of movie, it was little-tingles-in-your arms good. The other two were not as clear—probably because they were silent, and the effect was dulled. Anyway, go and see his color movies with sound. Tell us how they are. Particularly Amphetamine. Is it any good? (It is two of his friends shooting up speed, talking, laughing, and drinking soda.)