it's almost 1pm and already it's been a marathon movie day. i woke up sunrise early, opened my laptop and went straight to netflix instant before the crust was even out of my eyes. it's a killer beautiful sunny warm day, so i should be outside, but yesterday i was hiking and outdoor shit like that, and i had a deeply terrible dream where an ex-boyfriend died and i had to go through all of his stuff and read all this horrible stuff he wrote about me, ugh, it was so sad and weird. so, movies are good bad dream cures for me. by the way, i got a little guff at the videostore yesterday for having netflix. i explained "i need tv" and even though i'm not sure that flew, it made me feel more righteous about it. enough about me, right?
well, so first off i finished you're gonna miss me, which i fell asleep to last nitey nite. i love it of course. roky erikson sure can sing, and although his mother was a narcissist, i did feel sorry for her when she told the judge she thinks roky should do yoga instead of taking medicine, because i want to believe stuff like that works better than drugs but a dude like that dude and his messy life, it's a tough call. speaking of call, i missed your call yesterday so i need to call you to hear about this fuckup business.
next i watched 30 century man, the one about scott walker. he's a crooner, alright, and i love that thurston moore has a perfect attendance record when it comes to being on these rockumentaries. johnny marr is in this one, too. and of course, scott walker is prettty great, and i always enjoy watching musicians gush about one great musician, so it was a total win.
after that i watched about 30 seconds each of gigantic (with paul dano and zooey deschanel) and then palindromes. i had to shut off gigantic because you know how sometimes the volume on netflix instant is just too too low? i thought i might like it though. paul dano is a mattress salesman who wants to adopt a baby from China and zd plays the classic quirky girl, but also john goodman plays her dad and lester from the wire is dano's boss. maybe some other time. and palindromes i had to shut off because no matter what i do, i hate todd solodnz. just can't do it with that guy, you know?
last but not least, we have the cake eaters, the directorial debut of mary stuart masterson, who's in one of my favorite ever movies: fried green tomatoes. classic small town indie character study family drama, with the girl from twilight and a bunch of other people. i have to say, it was everything i wanted it to be: sleepy acoustic sdtrk, old people having extramarital affairs, a lunch lady dude and a high school girl with a degenerative muscular disease having a devirginizing affair, prodigal-son-back-home-from-nyc-after-his-mom-died-type stuff, and adults learning to let go. plus some art. oh! i almost forgot about the terrible tattoos! a few characters have some pretty bad tattoos. not incredibly bad, but quietly bad.
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that is an amazing movie day. i was surprised at how well rokey can sing. even now he still has a really amazing voice.
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i also watched maybe 20 minutes of gigantic and had to stop because the sound was bad. i really love paul dano. have you seen the ballade of jack and rose? you'd love it i think. i really loved it.
and the solodnz. i love welcome to the dollhouse and don't love happiness and that other one with the black professor. but, i did like palindromes. i thought it really worked and was fun to watch. although i can't remember much else because i saw it in balimore, i think, so 2004.
but, i'm excited for cakeeaters. i'll have to wait until i'm in the mood for it, but i also love stuff like that. slow stuff like that. i like adults learning to let go.
and on terrible tattoos. what is up with those uglyass tattoos that the tattoo artist has on friday night lights? seriously, they're totally just stock rub-on tattoos. and, she has three of them. who would trust a tattoo artist with three tattoos? lame ass.