Speaking of not enjoying days as much as I should have- I felt bored a lot yesterday, although when I look back this morning I really did everything I wanted to yesterday.
- I took it easy and read another book by Donald Antrim... but I'm not sure I'm going to finish this one. It's not that it isn't like the first one I read, Elect Robinson for a Better World. It is.... maybe too much. The protagonist in this one is filled even worse with delusions of grandeur, wonky theories, obsessions with sex that involve judging everyone, lie after lie and contradiction after contradiction, etc. The guy's a total mess.
- Listened to some streaming Don & Mike. They talked about and played Mel Gibson's interview with Diane Sawyer, in which he uhhh didn't apologize at all and seemed to totally dodge blame for his own actions. Yay, Mel. /sarcasm
- Went out for a nice walk around Ladd's Addition. I discovered a very tall, dark-brick Catholic church just a block or so south of here that I didn't know was there. Huh. Maybe I'll run into Mel in there sometime? /silly
- Watched a little baseball... not really my sport, but it is the playoffs, as Tommy Lasorda reminds us. /semi-sarcasm
- Went to the "Corn Maize" haunted (boo!) corn maze on Sauvie Island. I was at first concerned that 1) phillipetheotter couldn't go (darn), 2) I got there and didn't see anyone, 3) couldn't reach folks on the phone, but eventually met up with the Ryan-Les party of folks (Jake, Tyler [not Eddie], Shannon, etc) and well we got lost aplenty... scared? Not on a deep level, although the scene of being in mostly-dark cornfield at past-9-at-night is kinda... creepy? There was a million folks there, though, so it's not like I felt "all alone"; more like hemmed in? But it was funn. We went to Madison's afterward. For some reason I thought it was a strip club. I guess it was the way it was decided "Madison's instead of Devil's Point" that did it, although frankly it was nice to be in a quiet, warm, non-smoking place, which I guess were some of the deciding factors.
Anyway, I am VERY VERY glad to see the Alejandro Jodorowsky interview here, and see that My Favvvvorite Film Ever (Ever-Ever? Yes, EVER-Ever) is going to be reissued in complete, restored, with-interviews/extras DVD soon. I mean this- I mean, think of your very favorite movie... now imagine nobody's heard of it, it's not in print, and you have to get a bootleg, bad-condition copy from Italy or a place that copies the Japanese laser-disc edition of several years ago, with odd censorship of people's genitals even though it's nudity, not sex scenes, and just in poor condition overall. That's the way it's been for The Holy Mountain, and now it will be out in great shape soon.
I don't even put much concern whether it gets rereleased into theaters, actually. Sure, I'd go, but most people won't care and it won't get the love/ respect it deserves anyway. I'll just be glad to get a jolly-great DVD release of it. (btw, when I say "nobody" loves it, I don't mean to call great folks like Lemonkid and Vim "nobodies," I just mean nobody likes the movie in comparison to, say, Star Wars or Serenity or Xmen or whatever... I'm sure the last Ernest movie made more than The Holy Mountain and El Topo [another very good film] combined, but ya know I will try to accept this on some level. I did go see Ernest Goes to Camp with someone in a theater, btw- that's a whole other story.)
- I took it easy and read another book by Donald Antrim... but I'm not sure I'm going to finish this one. It's not that it isn't like the first one I read, Elect Robinson for a Better World. It is.... maybe too much. The protagonist in this one is filled even worse with delusions of grandeur, wonky theories, obsessions with sex that involve judging everyone, lie after lie and contradiction after contradiction, etc. The guy's a total mess.
- Listened to some streaming Don & Mike. They talked about and played Mel Gibson's interview with Diane Sawyer, in which he uhhh didn't apologize at all and seemed to totally dodge blame for his own actions. Yay, Mel. /sarcasm
- Went out for a nice walk around Ladd's Addition. I discovered a very tall, dark-brick Catholic church just a block or so south of here that I didn't know was there. Huh. Maybe I'll run into Mel in there sometime? /silly
- Watched a little baseball... not really my sport, but it is the playoffs, as Tommy Lasorda reminds us. /semi-sarcasm
- Went to the "Corn Maize" haunted (boo!) corn maze on Sauvie Island. I was at first concerned that 1) phillipetheotter couldn't go (darn), 2) I got there and didn't see anyone, 3) couldn't reach folks on the phone, but eventually met up with the Ryan-Les party of folks (Jake, Tyler [not Eddie], Shannon, etc) and well we got lost aplenty... scared? Not on a deep level, although the scene of being in mostly-dark cornfield at past-9-at-night is kinda... creepy? There was a million folks there, though, so it's not like I felt "all alone"; more like hemmed in? But it was funn. We went to Madison's afterward. For some reason I thought it was a strip club. I guess it was the way it was decided "Madison's instead of Devil's Point" that did it, although frankly it was nice to be in a quiet, warm, non-smoking place, which I guess were some of the deciding factors.
Anyway, I am VERY VERY glad to see the Alejandro Jodorowsky interview here, and see that My Favvvvorite Film Ever (Ever-Ever? Yes, EVER-Ever) is going to be reissued in complete, restored, with-interviews/extras DVD soon. I mean this- I mean, think of your very favorite movie... now imagine nobody's heard of it, it's not in print, and you have to get a bootleg, bad-condition copy from Italy or a place that copies the Japanese laser-disc edition of several years ago, with odd censorship of people's genitals even though it's nudity, not sex scenes, and just in poor condition overall. That's the way it's been for The Holy Mountain, and now it will be out in great shape soon.
I don't even put much concern whether it gets rereleased into theaters, actually. Sure, I'd go, but most people won't care and it won't get the love/ respect it deserves anyway. I'll just be glad to get a jolly-great DVD release of it. (btw, when I say "nobody" loves it, I don't mean to call great folks like Lemonkid and Vim "nobodies," I just mean nobody likes the movie in comparison to, say, Star Wars or Serenity or Xmen or whatever... I'm sure the last Ernest movie made more than The Holy Mountain and El Topo [another very good film] combined, but ya know I will try to accept this on some level. I did go see Ernest Goes to Camp with someone in a theater, btw- that's a whole other story.)
If the As and Cardinals are in the series, I might watch a little.