When I'm reaching deep down into my senses

[sovay]

Bad: This is the third night in a row I have not slept. I am beginning to feel very frayed around the edges and I hurt all the time.

Good: I am reading tonight at Pandemonium Books & Games! Come hear me read different stories and answer different questions than at my previous appearances. I don't think it should be a selling point that I might be tired enough to speak in tongues.

On the strength of their "Save the People," spatch and I really feel the Mountain Goats should just do a full-album cover of Godspell or a concert revival or something.

On the strength of "Soft Stud," I am having trouble waiting for the rest of Black Belt Eagle Scout's Mother of My Children (2017/2018). Queer Native feminist alternative rock? Do you want to take my money now or yesterday?

Talking about Neue Sachlichkeit with moon_custafer reminded me of Max Beckmann's Double Portrait (1946). I visit it whenever I am at the MFA; it's one of my favorite pieces of the museum, along with the stamp seal with a suḫurmāšu or Ellen Day Hale's Self Portrait (1885). I like Beckmann's portrait of Perry T. Rathbone (1948), but the other one keeps coming back to me.

Comments

[sovay]

Heh, it's from The Beloved Vagabond (1936), and she must have still be about 19 or 20 at the most when they made it.

I can't tell from that summary if the movie is any good, but she's great.

[thisbluespirit]

It's one of those ones where I'm not sure what to make of it overall - it was a thoroughly dodgy thing in which Maurice Chevalier started out by kidnapping a small boy and wound up marrying teenaged (?) Margaret Lockwood, but in the meantime they all sang and danced and drew art round France to the horror of stuffy English people, and it was all kind of cheery and hard to dislike too much. Wee Margaret Lockwood was the highlight though!

I got it on one of my Ealing Rarities DVD sets from Network. They each contain 4 obscure Ealing films for fairly cheap prices & I try to collect the 30s ones, and they're very hit and miss but often extremely interesting and I appreciate getting hold of them like that.