SO ALRIGHT ALREADY! ENOUGH WITH THE CHESHIRE CAT REFERENCE or DESCRIPTION or whatever that was!!! gah!
i'm sorry. i'm a lame-ass, don't you know. i tend to brow-beat people with particular lines of description that are attractive to me. but once really should be enough. yes well. re-reading previous entries, both mine as well as others that i frequent, is at once good and bad.
good because there is something great to be said for the routine and rhythm and familiarity that comes out of re-reading.
bad because if you have critical eyes there IS a tendency to second-guess, to self-scold, to be ashamed, to want to undo the undo-able, to want to re-write the whole cursed lot of it. oh, and there's also the powerful urge to scrap the whole damned dirty thing altogether. bleh. and that's my feeling on it thus far.
but to move on from my useless personal feelings on the matter.. i shall regale you with today's outing.
its sunday. the last summer sunday for me. i'm sure tomorrow will feel equally sunday-esque for me as instruction doesn't start until thursday and i'm not scheduled to work until tuesday morning. but i digress, today's calendar says its sunday. i knew i had plans. i made them with jenn and john when i was at the house this past friday. i was told: lunch and a movie.. and your standard quality time just goes right alongside the overall event.
so LUNCH took place at a place in the north park area. i forget the name. the wonderful food (and mind you, this is just a late lunch we're havin.. imagine what dinner's like.. yeesh) knocked the name right out from under me. it was so lovely. i had the number two.. the chicken breast kabob dealie. jenn had the salmon, john had the spanikopita filafil and rempt had the spanikopita somethin somethin. i don't know but it was all good stuff. leslie stopped by for some greek coffee (or some such delectable iced goodness) and we all had talks and laughter. jabbings and downtime; we had sunday time.
the MOVIE was something i wasn't sure i was going to. originally i said yes. but i thought i wouldn't have the time because i still had to shuttle my mom home from her place of work. rempt talked me into it though and i'm really glad i went. we caught the AMERICAN SPLENDOR flick at hillcrest at four something. and i have to say it was more heart-warming than i expected. i mean i'm probably the only one that would say it was heartwarming. it warmed my heart, certainly.. but other people might just say that it had a quality about it (whether it be the writing or the images) that warmed the heart but not that it was this thing that set out to be heartwarming on the whole.
i don't know.. i suppose i really liked the playing with the lines and boundaries and frames that are naturally set up in the comic-book world and then the comic-book worlds' re-presentation onto film. for me, its a lot like when you're looking at yourself in the bathroom mirror and then you set another mirror at just the right angle and boom! you get an infinite corridor of mirror images on mirror images. it was like that a little, it was fun. for instance... i enjoyed, surprisingly enough, the real Harvey's appearance throughout. i liked the somewhat blurry documentary-like undertone.
there was one place in particular that i liked, as film-cheesy as it was. after a short scene between toby and harvey in the filing room there is a close up of jelly beans and Harvey sifting through them. you hear "cut" and some other directorial lingo (sort of muffled like) and the next shot shows a studio camera pulling back from the previous close-up and scene that was just viewed by the audience n' whatnot. then there is this play between the actors playing the real guys and they sort of occupy the same space and its really pretty kitschy but hell.. i loved it. plus it plays into a later question/concern that kind of resonates through the film and then, of course, through real-life situations. the issue of identity. identity and longing. yea. ultimately i'm gonna say that those are the two main things i walked away with.
i started this entry out knowing what i was going to share.. and now..? now i'm sunk and kind of thirsty. so pretty much i'm distracted a whole helluva lot right now. what with being messaged left and right and up and over and through. so ok. i'll update when i have something interesting either to say or when i'm better at saying whatever it is i'm gonna say.
[UPDATE: lunch took place at a greek restaurant in north park called COUNTRY KABOB. that is all]
10:09 p.m. - 2003-09-21
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