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Sunday, June 19, 2005

Netflix: Bird

If you like jazz and heroin (and who doesn't?), you'll love Bird. Bird is the story of jazz sax-a-ma-phonist Charlie Parker. I don't know much about jazz, but I have it on good faith that Parker is one of the most influential jazz musicians ever (if not top dog). Unfortunately, he was also a juicehead and a junky. And not the, "he's-trying-to-beat-his-habit-and-maybe-he'll-make-it-work-out-this-time" kind of junky. He's more of a "how-much-can-I-get-for-this-Charlie-Parker-saxophone" junky. It was actually kind of depressing, watching such a creative person stumbling towards his inevitable destruction.

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