sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2023-03-18 01:26 am

Like a diamond running 'cross my skies

Despite the necessity of structuring my day around an urgent care appointment for an earache, I had a really nice one. In the afternoon, I met [personal profile] spatch on his way to work and we picked up lunch from the Happy Crab: fried scallops and oysters, which we ate down the street at the metal tables of Lou Ann David Park. I had somehow missed that the mural around the back of the former Powder House Community School starts off the history of Somerville with dinosaurs. In the evening, [personal profile] rushthatspeaks came over and we tried to order from Mamaleh's so that we could have corned beef for dinner in a form which we both enjoy, but it transpired that the restaurant's internet was down and their phone with it, so we ordered instead from the Pokeworks in Davis Square and watched Kogonada's Columbus (2017), a chill, contemplative, beautifully framed and colored meditation on modernist architecture bracketed by people's lives; recommended even for viewers who would like to dynamite Boston City Hall. I have also been alerted to the one-time existence of Cartrivision. My plan for the rest of the night is to faceplant.
skygiants: the princes from Into the Woods, singing (agony)

[personal profile] skygiants 2023-03-18 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Cartrivision and I am so desperately glad we do not have any in our archives as it would be a headache beyond any that we have ever experienced!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2023-03-18 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I had never heard of Cartrivision, though really I should have, since my dad bought a Betamax player very early on (back when the tapes were only one-hour long, one speed only!).
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2023-03-20 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Columbus is a wonderful film!

And this reminds me that I need to watch the directors After Yang.