I'm glad the King's D trip seemed to pan out well. Hafu has said what NoControl said- we needed some better phone # exchange; but all seemed to come together well. (Hey, why is Hafu grey? I hope I can draw a line through this observation tonight as with my last Journal.)
Hi to everyone I saw- I think the list is really too long this time! I will gladly put up any pics that come along from others's cameras that don't humiliate me.
I dunno if its the medicines I've been taking, the heat (it wasn't that hot, was it??), or what, but I was definitely woozier on rides this time than when I was a spritely... teen or whatever it was when I last went. I seem to remember going to King's Dominion in my 20s; I do not remember the Berzerker squeezing my stomach to the point where I was feeling it an hour later.
WTF? Maybe too many deserts, buffets, and bourbons.
I should get going soon to see my movies in DC that I mentioned last time. I suppose one good thing about feeling way too ragged out last night to party or such is that I am up early enough to see two matinee films-
A Tout de Suite - This one's quite different in feel from the other three Jacquot films I mentioned. It's in black and white and has a stark realism to it that the others (particularly Seventh Heaven) didn't. It was quite like a French New Wave film.
There is a little zeitgeist thing working here: a week ago, I was in a record store in which favorite Tangerine Dream albums were being discussed. I bought a few in my teens and my fave by a mile was my first, Ricochet... the first section of that album was used as the basic theme for this film, played repeatedly. It is set in 1975, so this makes great sense. (Also, we went on the Ricochet rollercoaster yesterday; a smaller coincidence, yeah.)
The film is basically serious in tone. A love story, or in typical French film style, instant love/ lust between a star-crossed couple. Unlike many French movie star-crossed couples, what keeps them apart is not their own dramatic personalities per se but... the guy's vocational complications. Very good movie.
Mysterious Skin- If I told you the basics of this film that I knew going into it, that it's about the effects of molestation on two boys who grow in quite different directions, you might say well, you could figure out how it would generally go... and you'd be right, but... I still found it a profoundly evocative, well-made, sad film. I could figure out many characters as they were introduced fairly handily, but some not so much. The Billy Drago cameo in particular had me quite close to tears... and the overall lingering effect of the movie, the closing minutes... it's a sad film. And I think a real achivement for director Araki. He proved he could make us sad by shock films with hit-you-over-the-head violence (Nowhere, The Doom Generation), he could make us sad by making crummy, fluffy films (Splendor), and now he's made a film that is sad via creative, good storytelling. Very good movie.
Hi to everyone I saw- I think the list is really too long this time! I will gladly put up any pics that come along from others's cameras that don't humiliate me.
I dunno if its the medicines I've been taking, the heat (it wasn't that hot, was it??), or what, but I was definitely woozier on rides this time than when I was a spritely... teen or whatever it was when I last went. I seem to remember going to King's Dominion in my 20s; I do not remember the Berzerker squeezing my stomach to the point where I was feeling it an hour later.
WTF? Maybe too many deserts, buffets, and bourbons.
I should get going soon to see my movies in DC that I mentioned last time. I suppose one good thing about feeling way too ragged out last night to party or such is that I am up early enough to see two matinee films-
A Tout de Suite - This one's quite different in feel from the other three Jacquot films I mentioned. It's in black and white and has a stark realism to it that the others (particularly Seventh Heaven) didn't. It was quite like a French New Wave film.
There is a little zeitgeist thing working here: a week ago, I was in a record store in which favorite Tangerine Dream albums were being discussed. I bought a few in my teens and my fave by a mile was my first, Ricochet... the first section of that album was used as the basic theme for this film, played repeatedly. It is set in 1975, so this makes great sense. (Also, we went on the Ricochet rollercoaster yesterday; a smaller coincidence, yeah.)
The film is basically serious in tone. A love story, or in typical French film style, instant love/ lust between a star-crossed couple. Unlike many French movie star-crossed couples, what keeps them apart is not their own dramatic personalities per se but... the guy's vocational complications. Very good movie.
Mysterious Skin- If I told you the basics of this film that I knew going into it, that it's about the effects of molestation on two boys who grow in quite different directions, you might say well, you could figure out how it would generally go... and you'd be right, but... I still found it a profoundly evocative, well-made, sad film. I could figure out many characters as they were introduced fairly handily, but some not so much. The Billy Drago cameo in particular had me quite close to tears... and the overall lingering effect of the movie, the closing minutes... it's a sad film. And I think a real achivement for director Araki. He proved he could make us sad by shock films with hit-you-over-the-head violence (Nowhere, The Doom Generation), he could make us sad by making crummy, fluffy films (Splendor), and now he's made a film that is sad via creative, good storytelling. Very good movie.
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I'm so glad someone did!!
I take it you hate that game?
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