Never be the same
2023-10-04 15:35Yesterday 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.
