I was under the impression these things don't go bad

[sovay]

We fought the health insurance and we didn't lose! "We won this round!" spatch amended apotropaically, and then did a Dr. Claw impression. Have some links.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world. "When I was growing up, we didn't have art on the walls but there would be these calendars with gods and gurus everywhere; I've made Tate Britain a bit like a contemporary temple, but not so much to do with anything religious. "

2. This pair of posts on queer history seemed to go together. Not unrelatedly, Francis Lee has once again been interviewed about Ammonite (2020) in a way that makes me desperately want the film to stream where I can see it.

3. Being a person who cares about Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance and Paula Vogel's Indecent, I am going to do my best to catch Alastair White and Clara Kanter's The Drowning Shore, premiering this week as part of Compass Presents' Oracles in Sepia. I imagine others on my friendlist may feel the same. "In Scots and Yiddish." That makes me hope A.C. Jacobs would have approved.

4. I have no experience of Harry Styles beyond his acting in Dunkirk (2017) and therefore no opinions about his music, but I feel strongly that "because I think it looks cool" is an aesthetic to be encouraged.

5. A nice reminder that respite does not equal complacency.

The Leonids are peaking tonight. I hope it will be clear enough to appreciate them.

Comments

[julian]

I *keep* tripping over the fact that this Ammonite is not an adaptation of Nicola Griffith's book.

But it does look pretty frickin' awesome.

(Yay Harry Styles. Or more accurately, yay more manifestations of gender.)

[sovay]

But it does look pretty frickin' awesome.

I really, really loved his feature debut God's Own Country (2017) and adding queer women and paleontology has done nothing to disinterest me in his sophomore effort. I've never seen any of his shorts.

(Yay Harry Styles. Or more accurately, yay more manifestations of gender.)

I am very much in favor of the infinite combinations approach.

[selkie]

We have cloud cover, but I keep a whole iteration of the Leonids up in my head, suffused with that little bit of clementine oil that always gets under your fingernails when you peel one.

May you win and keep on winning!

[sovay]

We have cloud cover, but I keep a whole iteration of the Leonids up in my head, suffused with that little bit of clementine oil that always gets under your fingernails when you peel one.

spatch has informed me we have clouds moving in, too, but we'll always have clementines.

May you win and keep on winning!

Thank you! May we all. It would make such a nice change.

[lauradi7dw]

Have you seen "Solomon and Gaenor" (1999)? It was supposedly the first Welsh and Yiddish (lots of English) movie. May still be the only.

[sovay]

Have you seen "Solomon and Gaenor" (1999)? It was supposedly the first Welsh and Yiddish (lots of English) movie. May still be the only.

I was aware of it when it came out, but I never saw it! Did you, and if so, do you recommend it?

[nineweaving]

I liked Solomon and Gaenor. Not brilliant, but quite good (as I recall after all these years)—and what's not to like about Welsh and Yiddish?

I so want to see Ammonite!

Nine

[sovay]

Not brilliant, but quite good (as I recall after all these years)—and what's not to like about Welsh and Yiddish?

Nothing from where I'm standing. I will put it back on my list of things to look vaguely out for.

I so want to see Ammonite!

I know the movies we would have seen in theaters are the least of the cost of this plague, but I still resent the loss.

S & G

[lauradi7dw]

We went all the way to Marblehead or somewhere to see it as part of the Jewish Film Festival that year. A good chunk of the audience was people brought in vans from a Jewish retirement home, but I was not the only person who had noticed Ioan Gruffudd in his small Titanic role. He memorized all his Yiddish lines without learning any other Yiddish, apparently, but Welsh was his first language.

Re: S & G

[sovay]

We went all the way to Marblehead or somewhere to see it as part of the Jewish Film Festival that year.

That's cool.

A good chunk of the audience was people brought in vans from a Jewish retirement home, but I was not the only person who had noticed Ioan Gruffudd in his small Titanic role.

I keep forgetting he's in Titanic because I bounced so thoroughly off that movie! I knew him at the time from the first two or three installments of Hornblower and, depending on the release dates, the 1999 BBC Great Expectations.

Re: S & G

[lauradi7dw]

Right, I really liked him in Hornblower. Not enough rope on the ship, though.

[tree_and_leaf]

I suspect the fact that Harry Styles started out in a very manufactured boy band, and thus is not supposed to have a personality beyond picking one of cute/ cheeky/ sensible/ quiet/ charming, much less opinions on a topic which is unfortunately controversial in the transphobic sewer the UK is becoming, is contributing to the general conservative head-melting, but good on him.

[minoanmiss]

This! *and* Good on him!

[sovay]

and thus is not supposed to have a personality beyond picking one of cute/ cheeky/ sensible/ quiet/ charming, much less opinions on a topic which is unfortunately controversial in the transphobic sewer the UK is becoming, is contributing to the general conservative head-melting, but good on him.

I have been observing the transphobia from a distance with dismay, but especially under those conditions, I am glad this is the personality he turned out to have.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, indeed. (Back in his boy band days, he was always marketed as 'the charming one,' IIRC).

[oracne]

Yay for insurance victory!!!

[sovay]

Yay for insurance victory!!!

Thank you! It shouldn't have to feel so huge, but American healthcare.

[davidgillon]

Yay for victory in the eternal battle against the forces of xevilx health insurance.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world.

OMG, I love the way she's signed it with a rendition of the family ice-cream van!

[sovay]

Yay for victory in the eternal battle against the forces of xevilx health insurance.

Thank you!

OMG, I love the way she's signed it with a rendition of the family ice-cream van!

It's just spectacular.

[skygiants]

CONGRAGULATIONS ON YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE VICTORY!!!

(agh, I've been way behind on DW this week; I'm sorry I didn't see this post early enough to block out time during the workday for The Drowning Shore but I hope and trust there will be a later opportunity!)

[sovay]

CONGRAGULATIONS ON YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE VICTORY!!!

Thank you!

(agh, I've been way behind on DW this week; I'm sorry I didn't see this post early enough to block out time during the workday for The Drowning Shore but I hope and trust there will be a later opportunity!)

It's fourteen minutes total and it's on YouTube! I trust there will. I loved it.

[jesse_the_k]

The queer history links were very educational, thank you.

we have to be flexible–to be QUEER–with our genealogies because queer genealogy doesn’t WORK the same way genealogies do for other marginalized identities. most of us (not all of us!) don’t have queer parents who taught us how to be queer. we don’t have literal queer ancestors; and honestly even if we do, we might not recognize them on their own terms.

disabled people have a similar need to reach across, forward and back, since so few of us have a family identity.

[sovay]

The queer history links were very educational, thank you.

You're welcome!

disabled people have a similar need to reach across, forward and back, since so few of us have a family identity.

That makes sense to me.

I have realized that while I have a family of origin I feel supportedly a part of, I was also lucky enough to get from them the equally strong sense that DNA is not the only or even a necessary or desirable requirement for the definition of family, and I think it has served me well.