A few days ago, I commented on David Meiklejohn’s introductory preview of My Heart Is an Idiot on the Yellow Stereo. At first glance, My Heart Is an Idiot is a documentary about Davy Rothbart, the cofounder of Found Magazine, but in actuality, the documentary explores the broader conceptualization of love.
After receiving an email update from David about the second video posting, I was excited to see the development of the film and its theories on love.
For one thing, I was intrigued by the slight shift in tone from the explorative curiosity of the first video to the gray undertone of reality pervading the second video. Unlike the first video, which lightheartedly introduces the film, the second video describes love in the context of traveling with a sense of bittersweet “pain and poetry” that poignantly juxtaposes David’s carefree witticisms. An appropriate analogy between the first and second video likens the curiosity of a naïve youngster exploring love for the first time to the “wise” musings of a 30ish single man who has learned about love through poignant moments of uncertainty. Maybe even at 30, the true meaning of love still escapes us.
One gripe I had about the second video was the frequent mention of hell that makes me wonder whether David had meant to imply that love is a form of hell? (which I disagree with of course) Maybe spending time in Hell (Hell, Michigan, that is), while thinking about love has intertwined the two concepts in his mind. Any further inquiry into this question will inevitably lead to a psychological discussion, which I will kindly leave for another other time.
Okay, enough rambling and onto the technical issue at hand. I have been unable to embed the video onto TYS, so you have to bear with me and CLICK HERE to view it … “pretty pretty please,” as David would say.
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