The phenomenology of film-seeing in Blowup is finally not so compelling, but the film taught me more at 16 than any of the critical theory I had yet to encounter, in the scene where the mod crowd stands impassively through a Yardbirds concert but goes into a frenzy (in fact, they go Maenadic; that's a sparagmos where I come from) at a chance to take home a bit of Jeff Beck's guitar. Not the art but the fetish, not the experience but the commodity. Maybe the film's surrounding philosophical yar-yar...maybe all of that's necessary to set the terms for the lyric episode/club riot in which David Hemmings finds himself, for it to make sense; certainly the guitar-rending episode is necessary to open Hemmings' personal puzzlements (image/truth, visual trace/memory) out into the social, where it dies for lack of oxygen.
Any show booker, from Britney's management to the indie-boy driving the van, knows that the show is what gets kids into the room where they buy the t-shirts; that's how the rent gets paid, whether yr living in yr practice space or the Hollywood Hills. Recently I've been wondering about horse racing. I bike past the track almost every day, perched on a little hill at the edge of the Bay between Richmond and Berkeley marinas. It rises bold and stark like a Springsteen song, and it takes the length of a song on my pink iPod to ride from one end of its grounds to the other. We've all seen a million stories about loser gamblers with their shined but brokedown jalopies, and they all let us know like it's some tremendous wisdom that the odds are always stacked in favor of the house. Are they? Does it matter? It's starting to seem a matter of misdirection, as I climb past one green attendant's booth and descend past its brother at the other side. The horse racing's the show, right? Bet the ponies or don't; isn't the house winning on parking fees alone, before you ever ponder your first superfecta?
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The fact is that, in stark contrast to casino games which always give the house an advantage, horse racing does not. The betting (in this country) is pari-mutual, which means that the public sets the odds, and the house (and state government, etc,) takes a cut. As the public is highly fallible, there actually is an opportunity for a very good and knowledgeable gambler to make money betting on horses. Few actually succeed, but it happens.
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