FINALLY last night we saw some good flicks: sword of trust (marc maron) and extra ordinary (maeve higgins). both are truly worthwhile!! difficult being such a movie snob. too many films are derivative, dumb, purely terrible! are they that crappy at conception or does the creative kernel get crushed as they go through production? i tend to think a lot of it is i've seen faar, faaaar, faaaaaar too many movies!! i got hooked on them at around age 11 and by the teens, my best friend marc lazare & i snuck into the movies at least 2x a week, watching everything, the sexist 80s films damaging my conception of being a female to the point that i have had lifelong dysmorphia! (well, i already did... & finally, in the last half of my life, it has abated...) i was an avid collector of grindhouse, avante garde, foreign, & oddball movies by age 17. in those pre-net days, it was big work to find the movie titles (as well as 78s, 45s, & 33 1/3s) i craved... now, all you gotta do is search it up & boom! i recall now when i first got online about 20 yrs ago & realized that the world was FULL of other ppl into american music, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, & incredibly strange films... WOW! getting sober had shown me in one way i wasn't alone; the internet then showed me in another that there were thousands of others out there who were just as weird as i was.
anyways, as usual i digress. the films were such a happy surprise! we treated ourselves w/full pints of ice cream each! (well, james does that every night, but for me, it was unprecedented, a first-and-last ever.) my fruity pebble ice cream was such a delight! though never again will i indulge like that, the tasty treat made the film-watching experience so much better. yes, after a laborious (but fun) few days of intensive work on property clearance, ice cream & good movies w/my honey made for a memorable time.
school is out this week & james took this gig, so we will be there. he made the poster himself! talented in oh so many ways is james...
