Trackway and Camp and City lost, Salt Marsh where now is corn

[sovay]

Last night was not quite as successful on the sleep front, owing mostly to the cutting down and woodchipping of a tree across the street which woke both me and spatch and panicked both the cats; I fell back asleep afterward and had a classic anxiety dream of being expected to perform in the chorus of a concert for which I had never been given the music, only a lyric sheet, at which I was criticized for not being able to keep up. I miss the tree across the road already. I think it had mostly died, but it had branches and leaves and it cast a shadow. Bright-smashed with sunlight, that patch of sidewalk looks a lot more unforgiving now.

Rutger Hauer has died. I saw him first—and for years, only—in Blade Runner (1982), so he always had that more-human-than-human quality for me. I'll have to find something different to watch for his memory.

I am aware that the Mueller testimony is going on. I hope something effective comes of it. I do not want to become fatalistic, because that makes me useless, but the decks feel so stacked.

Comments

[rosefox]

My formative Rutger Hauer movie is Split Second, the only horror movie I can watch. It is bananapants and really remarkably good, mostly because it gets to the point where a standard horror movie would attempt to take itself seriously and then blows completely past it. If you feel up for watching an apocalyptic climate change horror movie about the Devil (who looks a whole lot like the alien from Alien) stalking through a rain-flooded London, with only Rutger Hauer, a nebbishy by-the-book cop, and Rutger Hauer's aggressively pin-up sexy ex-girlfriend in his way, I recommend it highly.

[sovay]

If you feel up for watching an apocalyptic climate change horror movie about the Devil (who looks a whole lot like the alien from Alien) stalking through a rain-flooded London, with only Rutger Hauer, a nebbishy by-the-book cop, and Rutger Hauer's aggressively pin-up sexy ex-girlfriend in his way, I recommend it highly.

That does indeed sound bananapants and I will see if I can find it.

[rosefox]

It's on Tubi to watch for free. I don't know what Tubi is.

Your searching may turn up a two-minute trailer; I don't recommend watching it if you want to watch the movie, as it spoils some of the best lines.

[sovay]

It's on Tubi to watch for free. I don't know what Tubi is.

Tubi is a free channel to which we have access through the Roku; it places its ad breaks at inexplicable intervals and its primary content appears to be amazing schlock, but it's also where we discovered Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck (1982) and Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979) and last week spatch watched Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (1982) off it, so it is of definite value. Thanks!

[rosefox]

Oh good!

I had forgotten, or never realized, that the femme fatale in Split Second is played by Kim Cattrall. They made this movie for like five dollars. I have no idea how they pulled in such a cast.

[kore]

If that is the one with the "We're gonna need guns. BIG GUNS" line my husband adores it and I've seen it like three times.

[rosefox]

It is! I just watched that scene and it really is a classic.

[kore]

It is a surprisingly good funny twisty movie! I remember thinking even at the time "Hey, the woman character's part is not that bad in this." It had two women producers apparently, saith Wiki.