just back from an evening at the casanova home.. thanksgiving dinner with all of the fixings and then a movie at the landmark in hillcrest at nine:forty-five.
right now there is a movie on amc. all the big stars. liam neeson, (?) mel gibson, and one of my favourite actors of all time: sir (because i swear he's been knighted) Anthony Hopkins.. [i'm dying to see The Human Stain movie]
this movie that's on amc right now is a sea-faring one. i always seem to catch this one in the middle. if i understand it correctly, so far, Hopkins plays captain Bly and there has just been a mutiny and Mel's character is a captain (and an idealistic one at that) who has taken control of Bly's ship and a young island-girl (read: tahitian) bride. oh i don't know why i focus on it so much. there's another sailing type pirate picture on the tcm channel/network too. there's a famous pair of old-time actors in that one.
earlier i sat there through the new flick out in the theater 21 Grams. and i don't think i know what to make of it yet. i would like to see it again sometime because my movie-going experience this evening was fraught with distraction. i had a lot on my mind and in the end found myself running over cinematic technique, narrative lines, character development and consistency.. i don't know. i just don't know. tone-wise it was very heavy, very grave. but for some reason i couldn't feel anything. t said she cried a lot and hasn't cried with/to a film like that in a long time.
why couldn't i cry? why didn't it reach me that way? is it my fault? am i heartless?
the cinematic grit was definitely there. just as it was sure to have been in amorres perros... another movie i have yet to see, and by the same director and cinematographer and overall filmmaking team.
whoa. something striking just happened in the story of the movie i was talking about was on teevee right now. the one dealing with mutiny. apparently the guys that took over the ship have landed on an 'uninhabited' island and are now burning there ship. E.G. "[THEY] WILL NEVER SEE ENGLAND AGAIN, SIR." wow man. that's just so freaking final. mmm. historical text included onto the end of the movie.. transposed over the last bits of burning ship going under water. something about the descendents (sp?) of Fletcher Christian living on Pitcarin Island even today! and the mutineer's fate was not discovered until eighteen years after the betrayal. john adams was found with i don't remember how many women and twenty-three children. yikes.
a new movie starting up now.. a universal picture. apparently another in a long string of "thanksgiving" movies as publicized by amc. oh. it's that coal miner's daughter movie about country and western singer ms. loretta lynn. starring sissy spacek and that tommy lee jones guy.
ooh! ann coulter on cspan?!
like i said.. DIS-TRAC-TED..
american civil liberties union president: nadine strossen.
why do smart people have such strange mouths. such curious oral movements? if it isn't a lisp then its an kind of over-pronunciation; if it isn't emphatically punctuated gestures its cynicism (sp?)
and finally.. last but not least. what else is on my mind? a comment was recently made about why twelve year olds need to wear mini-skirts. something about provocative clothing and being "deserving" of inappropriate and dangerously lewd and lascivious treatment; e.g. "you [or she] must have wanted to get messed with"
for the record no. i don't believe anyone deserves to be abused or harmed or harrangued (sp?) or judged.. but just because there are strong women and strong laws and strong ideas out in the world does not mean common sense should be thrown overboard. just because a woman can or should be able to or is rightfully defended does not mean its ok to be flagrant and/or arrogant about those very rights that most of us are so vigilant about. no. i don't believe we can just relax and just sit on our haunches and think all will be well because that is what is right. the world tells us something different.
by virtue of the way a woman's body is designed the threat from without is a constant thing. there's a reason why it would be difficult for me to travel ALONE across the country. there is a reason why the adventures of a man are so wholely separate from those same adventures if a woman were to take the foreground.
i don't know why i'm getting so wordy. all i mean to say is that differences, whether they be of the body or not, abound.
and furthermore, without fear.. without a consciousness and a reverence toward consequence we are all doomed! doomed, i say!
god i'm sleepy.
in the air: alan dershowitz on c-span
1:02 a.m. - 2003-11-28
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