I may be climbing on rainbows, but baby here goes.

[raybear]

I’m back at the temp job office that loves me. Seriously, I blushed twice this morning when getting introduced to the new desk I’m occupying this week. It’s kind of odd that I’m introduced as this great worker that everyone loves and then I’m sitting here with absolutely nothing to do because the attorneys have no work for me. In the 3 and a half hours I’ve been here, I’ve read two magazines and done research online on hypoglycemia and that’s about it. But I’m really not complaining at all because I’m sitting in central air conditioning all day (while reading an article about the Peak Oil movement, which is a potential crackpot theory for myself, though New World Water is still holding a pretty strong place in my heart still).

This weekend I did reading and eating and lounging and one-on-one socializing, but I feel spent the majority of my weekend watching movies. I would not recommend The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Greene, despite the presence of Meredith Baxter. I would not recommend The Piano Teacher for a date movie. And when watching, plan on drinking/self-medicating afterwards. Lovely and Amazing held up well and Why We Fight is a good general primer in that way where the people that need to see it most are probably the least likely to see it. I’m also reading four books at a time, but my favorite is the collection of short stories by Thomas Glave, who I want to marry. I don’t know what he looks like, but I’m sure we can make it work.

I’ve had some intense dreams lately involving distrusting people and my family (I finally wrote that e-mail to my father last week I wanted to get off my chest), but my best dream was from the night before last and involved a Sisters reunion that I attended, except it wasn’t like a movie was getting filmed of the show’s cast, it’s like the characters were actual people having a reunion and I was negotiating some sort of argument and I think maybe I was married to one of them. I hope it was Teddy.

p.s. Happy Birthday mrmturtle!!

Comments

[drinkasyoupour.livejournal.com]

Oh god, some of us tried to watch Lovely and Amazing at the BGBH, but couldn't get through it. I vaguely remembered having seen it before. I just hated Catherine Keener so much in this movie. Actually, I kind of hated every single one of the characters.

[cocolola.livejournal.com]

aw, i really like dlovely and amazing. it was so wierd. but i missed them when it was over.

[loosethread.livejournal.com]

i really liked "why we fight". i thought it was a really good movie and i had no idea about eisenhower. i have a new respect for him.

[flitterkitten.livejournal.com]

I love watching Sisters! I haven't thought of that in years!! Yeah, Teddy was definitely a hot one. mmmmmmm

[broqued.livejournal.com]

the piano teacher. did foxycoxy suggest this one to you?

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

Was Teddy played by Sela Ward? Or the red head?

[nineinchlovely.livejournal.com]

Yup. Sela was Teddy. I loved Julianne Phillips as Frankie.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

possibly. it's been floating in the back of my head, and i got it after watching Cache (same director). did you see it?

[mrmturtle.livejournal.com]

thanks raybear.
you must visit at this time next year!

[broqued.livejournal.com]

i've seen it. as a kind of date movie. and my date keeps raving about it, pushing it all over town. if i didn't know her as well as i do, i'd be a wee bit worried... i like to call this movie's genre "cox", as the majority of her netflix picks are of the incestual/pedophilic/rapeish/stab yourself thinker variety. the only criteria is that they either be independent or foreign films, and little to no blood shed no matter how many times the protagonist stabs themselves/their grandmother/the infant mailman.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

You know, I bought that movie but didn't watch it with you guys at the BGBH--I read this interview with the director that made it really interesting to me. I want to watch _Walking and Talking_, _Lovely and Amazing_, and then look at _Friends with Money_ when it comes out on video. The interview was that compelling.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

stop being me!!!

ok, except, i saw Walking and Talking ten years ago, and Lovely and Amazing five years ago in a theater in nyc, but i read an interview with nicole holofcenar (maybe from a magazine in your bathroom?) plus i got some good reviews from trusted sources on Friends with Money, so i decided to watch the trilogy all in a row.

i think it's fascinating how polarizing the responses to her movies are, given the surface banality of the subject matter.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

You stop being me. Nyeah.

I don't think her movies are banal in subject matter at all. I was going to go see _Friends with Money_ in the movie theater, but I was worn out on white people.

[flitterkitten.livejournal.com]

Sela Ward I think, she has brown hair and a sexy voice. In the show her young husband died?? she also played in hello again, that movie from the 80's as kimmy:-) I own that movie and love it!

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

"Worn out on white people" is my new motto/bandname/t-shirt slogan/emotion.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

this comment made my day.

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thebrownhornet.livejournal.com]

Don't forget about Once and Again! Hot, hot show.

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

me too. i feel like i can now start healing from my ptsd after that movie. thanks broqued. i needed that laugh.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

Also in this stop being me category, I'm in the middle of _whose song_. It makes utter sense that you love his writing. It's the exact combination of rambly pomo (I mean this in a complimentary way) and ultra sincere (ditto the comlimentaryness) that I think about as being where you sit.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

thanks for the blurb!!! i now have a handy way of describing my work...

i'm still only halfway through the book actually. with collections, i tend to read a short story, then go off and read something else for awhile, then come back and read the next story. (except for occasionally when i sit down and read them all in a row in one day, like i did recently with j. california cooper.)

what else are you reading?

[foxycoxy.livejournal.com]

i have no criteria, babe.. that's just it! i think my aversion to blood is completely separate from my affinity for psychological malaise films.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

On vacation, I read Octavia Butler's _Wild Seed_. I re-read _Kindred_, which was totally worth rereading. I read Nalo Hopkinson's _Brown Girl in the Ring_, where the Orisa are called on postapocalyptic Toronto (this is the book where the CN Tower belongs to the dead), I read Jeanette Winterson's telling of Atlas and Hercules _Weight_, Chris Abani's new novella _Becoming Abagail_, and another novel whose title I'm blanking on now. I need to go to the library and order some more books. What about you?