I'll sleep when I've a job, an apartment and Sweden's won the world cup
So I've been awake for most of the last two weeks. It's odd, really. I'm never particularly good at sleeping, but now I simply cannot sleep before seven or eight in the morning, and then only until the Brazilian woman at the halfway house next door yells or cheers at the World Cup. Boredom and drinking are doing fuck all, either.
And it's not as though I've been getting a particularly huge amount done. I'm editing a book on the post-situationism and British anarchists and it's fits and starts. I'll do an entire chapter in a day and then not look at the thing for a week. I've graduated so there's not even that to bother with. Generally I don't mind laying in bed all day not sleeping and not working because there really isn't anything else I've to do.
I'm unemployed as of last week. In nine days I'll be homeless. I've $80 and all the romances of being poor and working on books I once held on to now seem like absolute shite.
I've been taking advantage of all my time to watch movies. I saw "Battle in Heaven" and thought it was utterly wonderful and brilliant. I'm not entirely sure why, and have to watch it more when I'm properly lucid, but it just seemed so 'effective'. The characters were all so consistant and perfect versions of real emotions, or something along those lines ... not quite that it was well acted, but that it worked very well. The pacing was confusing and changed a lot but it worked so well to a climax or sorts. Mise en scene or some-such utter pompous crap. The biography/documentary "Derrida" was lovely fun. "Blow" was sorta crap ... well not really, but not particularly good. I re-watched the Hanif Kureshi movies I knew: "Intimacy" and "My Beautiful Launderette". They're just so utterly lovely. "Intimacy" was particularly clever, I think, based on the original stories the screenplay was based on. I'd re-read "Midnight All Day" recently and think the "Intimacy" storyline was improved by adding elements from "Midnight All Day" ... they're all the same story really ... well ... except for "The Penis".
I just finished watching "9 Songs" which I utterly adored, though I think it might have been shit. As with"Closer", I'm a bit scared that I only like it because of my particular mindset and I'll obsess over it and continue to adore it because of the emotion I've tied up in it ... which is, I suppose, the point of a movie in the first place. But "9 Songs" seems a bit too much like hipster porn, made respectable because of it's music more than anything it actually is, like Suicide Girls or something. Still, I love that there were only two real characters, excluding glaciers and music.
So I've been awake for most of the last two weeks. It's odd, really. I'm never particularly good at sleeping, but now I simply cannot sleep before seven or eight in the morning, and then only until the Brazilian woman at the halfway house next door yells or cheers at the World Cup. Boredom and drinking are doing fuck all, either.
And it's not as though I've been getting a particularly huge amount done. I'm editing a book on the post-situationism and British anarchists and it's fits and starts. I'll do an entire chapter in a day and then not look at the thing for a week. I've graduated so there's not even that to bother with. Generally I don't mind laying in bed all day not sleeping and not working because there really isn't anything else I've to do.
I'm unemployed as of last week. In nine days I'll be homeless. I've $80 and all the romances of being poor and working on books I once held on to now seem like absolute shite.
I've been taking advantage of all my time to watch movies. I saw "Battle in Heaven" and thought it was utterly wonderful and brilliant. I'm not entirely sure why, and have to watch it more when I'm properly lucid, but it just seemed so 'effective'. The characters were all so consistant and perfect versions of real emotions, or something along those lines ... not quite that it was well acted, but that it worked very well. The pacing was confusing and changed a lot but it worked so well to a climax or sorts. Mise en scene or some-such utter pompous crap. The biography/documentary "Derrida" was lovely fun. "Blow" was sorta crap ... well not really, but not particularly good. I re-watched the Hanif Kureshi movies I knew: "Intimacy" and "My Beautiful Launderette". They're just so utterly lovely. "Intimacy" was particularly clever, I think, based on the original stories the screenplay was based on. I'd re-read "Midnight All Day" recently and think the "Intimacy" storyline was improved by adding elements from "Midnight All Day" ... they're all the same story really ... well ... except for "The Penis".
I just finished watching "9 Songs" which I utterly adored, though I think it might have been shit. As with"Closer", I'm a bit scared that I only like it because of my particular mindset and I'll obsess over it and continue to adore it because of the emotion I've tied up in it ... which is, I suppose, the point of a movie in the first place. But "9 Songs" seems a bit too much like hipster porn, made respectable because of it's music more than anything it actually is, like Suicide Girls or something. Still, I love that there were only two real characters, excluding glaciers and music.