Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Jamielyn Lippman
Filmmaker and fellow mom Jamielyn Lippman is my Breakfast All Day A La Carte guest this week — and she’s the rare friend of mine outside the critic world who sees as much as I do. Jamielyn talks about growing up in a big, close family in suburban Santa Clarita north of Los Angeles, seeing films from a young age with her father, longtime professional baseball manager Tom Gamboa, and following her dad to various ballparks across the country with her siblings. She also discusses moving to Hollywood at 19 to be an actress (and getting her first big-screen credit in “Boogie Nights”) and making the transition to directing her own movies, including the documentary “When the Bough Breaks,” about postpartum depression, and the horror flick she just finished, “Killer Weekend.” We also get extremely detailed about where we like to sit in the theater. This one was lots of fun, so listen and enjoy.
Re: About being where it’s happening, or not.
It was a musician based in Dublin named Colin back in the mid 2000’s who was listening to the band Interpol and he introduced me to the music scene then. Today, I’m like one of those sad sap’s who isn’t plugged in enough to know an Interpol album was released in 2014. How many bands sound this good ten years after? Not that many. That is one serious problem now. We have got roads, cars and crap. Roads, jobs and driving. Not one man or woman I know has heard of Interpol. What is that about?
Not the 2018 album, the earlier 2014 one, El Pintor. If you listened to it for a while, I think you might not find it bad. I don’t know. Music used to not be something, in circles that I kept, that was for kids to listen to. When I lived in Dublin in Ireland this used to be important to folks whom I knew a lot more of. Don’t ask me, who I’m hanging around with now. They’ve never heard of what would be considered the ‘Scottish single malt’ of contemporary popular music.
Maybe rural broadband in Ireland will deliver Netflix to the masses. But it still won’t bring Interpol. That right there, is what we don’t talk about. It’s a larger problem, than rural broadband is preparing to solve. Lack or absence of culture. The television series and box set is the ‘lucky bag of culture’. Everything thrown in, nothing really authentic or valuable. A token plastic whistle. It’s about getting one’s culture all in one place now. To the detriment of diversity of artistic experience. No peoples’ voices anywhere, no working class musical revolution. No authorship, no original art work. One large dump. Endless amounts of content, coming from every angle. Is that what it’s all come to? Brian