Never be the same
Yesterday I had to visit Fort Point for an appointment. I hadn't been there to walk around since early 2020. It was good to see the tomb of the seagull kings from the Summer Street Bridge and the reflections of sky in frames of old brick.
Afterward I collected![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks and we watched Peter Strickland's Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (2022), a beautifully artificial, gently melancholy and funny ten-minute, 16 mm homage to James Bidgood and Bobby Kendall's Pink Narcissus (1971) which works so well as its own meditation on lost eras of art, sex, and love that we immediately wanted the feature it felt like the prologue to, which we have no idea if Strickland intends to provide. Rush showed me Janelle Monáe's "Lipstick Lover" (2023) and "Water Slide" (2023), of which he had been immediately and understandably reminded. We made dinner together for the first time in months and watched the first couple of episodes of Netflix's One Piece (2023), which as a person who doesn't read One Piece and a person who has been reading One Piece for decades we both really enjoyed. It was lovely.
In the meantime I am surviving entirely without sleep or the couple of hours I manage in the late morning when my body has given up on lying awake in the dark trying to implode. I just have to keep it up till tomorrow, whenselkie has suggested that maybe I should just request a full-body sheep dip of Benadryl when the tests are done. I have done worse stretches of sleep deprivation, but now was not the time for it.
Afterward I collected
rushthatspeaks and we watched Peter Strickland's Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (2022), a beautifully artificial, gently melancholy and funny ten-minute, 16 mm homage to James Bidgood and Bobby Kendall's Pink Narcissus (1971) which works so well as its own meditation on lost eras of art, sex, and love that we immediately wanted the feature it felt like the prologue to, which we have no idea if Strickland intends to provide. Rush showed me Janelle Monáe's "Lipstick Lover" (2023) and "Water Slide" (2023), of which he had been immediately and understandably reminded. We made dinner together for the first time in months and watched the first couple of episodes of Netflix's One Piece (2023), which as a person who doesn't read One Piece and a person who has been reading One Piece for decades we both really enjoyed. It was lovely.In the meantime I am surviving entirely without sleep or the couple of hours I manage in the late morning when my body has given up on lying awake in the dark trying to implode. I just have to keep it up till tomorrow, when
selkie has suggested that maybe I should just request a full-body sheep dip of Benadryl when the tests are done. I have done worse stretches of sleep deprivation, but now was not the time for it.
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That's lovely and so is the photo! (I want to know more about the seagull kings!) I hope that the tests go well and you can get some sleep and rest soon! <3
Also, this is completely unrelated, but I'm going to type it here now, because otherwise I'm going to forget: today I was having lunch at the canteen of the hospital next door to where I work, and I saw a man that looked *exactly* like Wendell Corey. The hospital belongs to the naval prefecture, so it was a bit like a scene from "The wild blue yonder"! XD Obviously, I thought of you immediately!
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Thank you! The tomb of the seagull kings is a ten-foot-tall pyramid of polystyrene that has been floating in the Fort Point Channel for almost a decade; it is gull-colored from weather and water and the first time
today I was having lunch at the canteen of the hospital next door to where I work, and I saw a man that looked *exactly* like Wendell Corey. The hospital belongs to the naval prefecture, so it was a bit like a scene from "The wild blue yonder"!
Whoa! I am honored to be thought of, and what an unexpected thing!
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<3 I love the idea of that pyramid as a resting place for the seagulls--that kind of public art is so cool and random, and I always enjoy it!
I am honored to be thought of, and what an unexpected thing!
Definitely unexpected, it made my day!
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I saw a kid at a train station once who looked like a young John Hurt, but I feel an apparent Wendell Corey is rarer.
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That's very cool, and somehow I'm not surprised, because liminal places like stations are such good places for spotting doppelgängers! Mine was pretty rare, it's true! I had a good laugh because I was trying to look at him without it seeming like I was checking him out, haha! XD
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This icon is deliberate.
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Thank you! I appreciate the icon.
*hugs*
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I walked into a bread store the other day and the person who sold me my bread talked to me about the show! I hadn't even seen it then. It really seems to be connecting.
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Thanks!
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I'm going to look up One Piece (I hadn't heard of it), but yes, it had to be interesting to watch together, with one person having read it and one not. It's a good sign that both of you enjoyed it.
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Thank you! For the tomb of the seagull kings, see conversation with
I'm going to look up One Piece (I hadn't heard of it), but yes, it had to be interesting to watch together, with one person having read it and one not. It's a good sign that both of you enjoyed it.
It's an exuberantly inventive, tonally wild adventure with pirates, magical powers, and dystopian governments in a deeply built world which either isn't ours or a lot has happened to it between us and them.
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Now to go look at the tomb of the seagull kings...