Feeling Punk

Went to a Washington Lawyers for the Arts brown bag session yesterday. The theme of the session was clearing rights for movies, music, and other arts. I really appreciated what they did, but lawyers are a hard group to trust. The first guy's presentation was basically a sales pitch for Corbis' rights-clearing services and it was directed more toward ad agency types--none of whom, I think, were in the room. The event had a lot of specifics in it, but it confused a lot of people into thinking you had to have clearance for every single unoriginal thing you've put into your work. A law professor who sat near me explained afterward that the standard they were applying is meant for advertisements, not works of art. You still have to get some clearance for works of art, but not for each and every building that appears in a street scene in your movie.

Wendy is down with the flu. I came home yesterday and she had a fever of 102 that quickly went as high as 103. She took some Tylenol and the fever started to come down. This morning it was normal, but she's still feeling punk.

"Feeling punk" was a phrase my dad used to say instead of "feeling ill." I suppose that the current understanding of the word punk will leave that phrase to the wind.