I keep drifting on and on
I have been ploughed under by sleeplessness and a monumental stupidity of scheduling in the middle of the week, but I enjoyed last night's thunderstorm. I've been reading Shena Mackay's Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags (1987) and Jean-Pierre Coursodon's American Directors: Volume II (1983), which is not actually the volume I thought I had ordered from the library, but at least turned out to be the one with the essay on Ida Lupino. (I had wanted the one with the essay on Byron Haskin.) Have a couple of links.
1. This is a really nice interview with Joe Dante about The Movie Orgy (1968), which I have never seen and which sounds amazing and which I hope plays the Somerville someday.
2. I grew up on Alastair Sim in Scrooge (1951) and it makes me very happy that someone has published a book studying this Christmas classic in terms of horror cinema.
3. We have been telling Autolycus that he resembles this comic.
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spatch and I watched The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). It may be the most delightful basketball movie I have ever seen, not to mention a near-musical with its deep-cut soundtrack of disco and Philadelphia soul; it's sweet and less full-bore zany than the astrological conceit makes it sound, even if at one point a hot-air balloon descends majestically through the dome of a stadium. Rob had been trying to see it for decades. It seems to have lived up.
1. This is a really nice interview with Joe Dante about The Movie Orgy (1968), which I have never seen and which sounds amazing and which I hope plays the Somerville someday.
2. I grew up on Alastair Sim in Scrooge (1951) and it makes me very happy that someone has published a book studying this Christmas classic in terms of horror cinema.
3. We have been telling Autolycus that he resembles this comic.
Last night
spatch and I watched The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). It may be the most delightful basketball movie I have ever seen, not to mention a near-musical with its deep-cut soundtrack of disco and Philadelphia soul; it's sweet and less full-bore zany than the astrological conceit makes it sound, even if at one point a hot-air balloon descends majestically through the dome of a stadium. Rob had been trying to see it for decades. It seems to have lived up.
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All cats are the cat in that comic. Ditto all toddlers, whom cats so much resemble.
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I often find cats easier to understand than toddlers!
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That is awesome.
I love the cat comic.
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I found it by accident! The author turns out to be (at least in 2017) local to me and love The Friends of Eddie Coyle, as who should not. "There is working both sides of the street, and then there is setting up food trucks on each side of them, and just kind of hoping both don't cancel each other out."
I love the cat comic.
It's so true to life!
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I like that way of thinking about it.
*hugs*
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Autolycus has mastered Sehnsucht.
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Not consistently, but some!
And also that you enjoyed Mackay's short stories. The ones that have stayed in my mind the most are "All the pubs in Soho", and the one about the girls who go to buy Christmas presents for their disaster of a family (titles are hard tonight). And "A pair of spoons", of course!
Thank you! "All the Pubs in Soho" was the other one that really struck me, too.
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Relatable! It's better that nothing, but still, I hope it improves! <3
It's very funny and also deeply bittersweet (a lot of her stories are like this, aren't they?), and I think about it a lot.