Getting injured is interesting because I know I can get obsessive with health stuff and now I have this extra little thing to direct my attention toward, like hiiiii :3
Josie and the Pussycats
Watched this with Marcus at Syndicated. Really adored it.
- back glitter tattoo
- Homoerotic Val and Josie
- Alan Cummings delivery
- Parker Posey perfect with perfect outfits
- transitions being hilarious and effective
- fast pace and never boring
- The songs weren’t annoying or took over whole parts
- Laugh out loud funny
- Good theater
- Funny dialogue
Had a kale caesar salad with grilled chicken and one mozz stick. Had a blast. What more can I say.
...I’m consuming a lot of media, but I haven’t sewn or drawn anything in a while. I’m enjoying writing about what movies I’m watching and what books I’m reading though. It’s kind of hard, to be honest, probably because it does feel like I’m doing mental exercises.
Figuring out how I feel, finding the right words for it, putting it down, deciding if that is coming across in a way that can closely approximate what I’m trying to say, it’s a lotta work.
...Caught By The Tides
Saw this at the Lincoln Center theatre with Annie, last minute invite.
I read up what little I could on Jia Zhangke in the afternoon, but honestly, I could not really get a handle on what to expect. I was vaguely prepared for a lot of visually striking and maybe some mundane BTS stuff. But somehow, I felt hooked for basically the whole time.
It starts of with a mishmash of older clips, probably from the beginning of the two decades worth of footage. The content itself felt a bit awkward and stilted, interview with a business owner, women singing for money, a man (Brother Bin) and a woman (Qiao Qiao) caught in a weirdly entangled relationship.
...Pumping Iron
Bodybuilding is an art. Like Arnold says, a painter can look at a subject and decide, oh he needs more rounded shoulders, take some paint and add it to the canvas. A bodybuilder can decide he needs more rounded shoulders and goes to the gym and eats and rests in order to physically build those shoulders.
Legit, it was cool to see someone talk about bodybuilding in that way because I do have this morbid, almost body horror fascination with this process. We use our bodies, and then intake nutrition to feed and give energy to the bodies, and then we rest to recover from the activities. All this fundamentally changes our bodies, there is a real, physical difference.
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