Koyaanisqatsi was awesome, in all senses of the word. It both filled me with awe at the power of environment, whether it's a city or a natural one, and was really, fantastically, just plain cool.

I was struck while watching it at the similarities between it and Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. Both of the films look at the cities with these omniscient eyes. There's that repetitive, yet perfectly placed music in both, setting the most mundane of actions (like walking through a city or working at a Twinkie factory) against the most awesome of things (the invention and growth of transportation) and working perfectly with both of them.

I don't necessarily think Reggio ripped off Vertov in his filmmaking; it was more of an equally as impressive update from a slightly different point of view. The movies were in the same vein, as all soap operas, for instance,are, but each can survive and be moving and fantastic on its own.

And Phillip Glass, too, fills me with awe. The score is one that seems to embody and define the progression of life, which seems to me like it would be a pretty hard thing to accomplish.