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I first saw Jean Luc Godard’s “Contempt” during college in the early 1980’s. The film portrays the failing relationship between a writer (Michel Piccoli) and his girlfriend (Brigitte Bardot) during a film production and it held multiple levels of exoticism for me at age 19. The French language, European locations and manners, adults living the sort of creative life that I aspired to. The famous apartment scenes depicting the couple’s estrangement affected me more deeply when I saw the film again in my thirties after the end of my first marriage, as described in the first episode of this story. But what most impressed me during that first viewing was simply the producer’s house on the cliff edge and the Mediterranean landscape surrounding it. I initially read this location as a Greek island, perhaps because the film within the film is an adaptation of “The Odyssey,” and it fully captured for me the allure of the world outside of small-town Wisconsin. Walking out of the Lawrence University Film Club in 1982, I resolved to travel to the Greek Islands at some unspecified future moment in my life.

That future moment turned out to be 1998, shortly after the events described in the first episode of this story.

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from Path Through the Wilderness, released September 7, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums
Tom Schroeder - Guitar
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

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