Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead....

Oh Strom Thurmond you are in for a nasty little surprise.... I am willing to bet that hell is fully integrated. No separate drinking fountains for you Dixie whistling bastard, drink from the gutter like the trash that you are.

Now that that is out of my system, let's say that the heat wave put a kick in my writing gene. Oh baby, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk - overnight from gray and dreary to HHH (hazy, hot and humid). It couldn't be hotter outside, but despite the urge to crawl into a ball and drink ice tea, I've had an eventful week. Working measurably less than last week, I feel like I've been on vacation - taking in the sun, a swim, watching movies... I've made some progress on my library pile of freebee rentals including Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. During the LA riots I was acutely aware of racial tensions (largely because I was a longtime decided viewer of In Living Color) but I wasn't really old enough to have a lot of experience with either urban life or different cultures. I was really impressed with this film / the story... It's well done and definitely going to remain one of those early 1990s classics that carries value as a historical document of the moment. I'd really like to talk about it, especially the riot sequence and see how others read the situation, who instigated, who was justified...

I also watched apocalypse Now, Redux (another movie I had gradually forgotten overtime) and my resounding feeling at the end of this one is that it has to be one of the ultimate guy movies at all time. I've always enjoyed a good war movie / war story, despite the largely masculine appeal, but this movie through and through is a guy movie that women can only speculate about. A high proportion of my college classes dealt with aspects of the 1960s or Vietnam (not only history or politics, I took classes on War generally) but I guess a lingering question I have is how bucked up was that war? I know not to take a movie like Full Metal Jacket or apocalypse Now as a documentaries - but surfing during air raids and the like... There was some weird ass shit going down and not just jungle fever, just absurd things.

I started Mulholland Drive last night plan to finish it up later this evening.... but it's been an all around good movie week. At some point I need to move onto the newest releases like Adaptation, Far From Heaven and Punch Drunk Love, but I like the library plan.

Wednesday night brought the typical drinking with the CC crew. This week the personalities were shifted around a little and we traded two usual drinking buddies for another two. I must honestly say that I liked the other group more, but, what can you do, people get busy I suppose. Also I lucked out and drank for free when one of my compatriots found a beetle in his appetizer. Granted this is disgusting, but since I wasn't eating, it wasn't my food, and the apologetic manager gave us coupons and took care of the entire tab, I got off easy. Five beers later, I pleased myself even more when I made it all the way to the doorstop ticket (and DUI) free after being tailed by a cruiser. After that close call I am taking next Wednesday night off - and drinking in a different locale, all dolled with Nathan for the Whitney opening and relying on good old public transit to take us home after one too many.

I've got a new on-line time waster courtesy of the one and only Ted Scharff, Friendster.com. It's still new to me so I don't know what it's all about yet, but I put up my profile page and I officially have two friends, Katie and Ted. It's like a pyramid scheme I think, with no one at the top - but it's summer, it's too hot to be outside, and I have plenty of time on my hands.

Speaking of plenty of time - there isn't much time when I have the house to myself, so I am going to enjoy the rest of my day off and work on my photo album collage.
posted by lmjasinski at 1:03 PM