Today’s “you can’t be serious” moment brought to you by Robert Thurman (Father of Uma), professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia, in an interview with New York Times Magazine:
As a Buddhist, how do you reconcile your pacifism with the roles your daughter Uma has played in films like Quentin Tarantino’s bloody “Kill Bill”? Quentin is kind of obsessed, he’s a wild guy. But he is very brilliant. We trust that his motive is to show people the foolishness of violence rather than to glorify it. I hope that’s true.
If I could pick one defining characteristic of Quentin Tarantino it would be his obsessive glorification of violence, materalism, and junk culture (see A Dream of Perfect Reception: The Movies of Quentin Tarantino by Gary Groth). It would be like saying “I really enjoy the new Star Wars films because of their subtlety and attention to character.”
Anyways, I swear this is still a music blog – I’ll be posting some songs later today. I just had to get that off my chest.