The goddess has accomplished her manifold tasks

[sovay]

This post was going to be a movie review, but then I fell down some stairs, so mostly it's me reminding myself that I should write about Jean Renoir's The River (1951), which I watched this afternoon with nineweaving, when I feel less aching and idiotic. It was wonderful, though, and in ways I hadn't expected for its time. It reminded me of I Capture the Castle (1948); it reminded Nine of Monsoon Wedding (2001). Neither of us has yet read the original novel.

I had seen or heard of all the Aardman animations mentioned in this article except for Douglas the Lurpak butter man, so of course I followed the link. What I find funniest about the commercial is not the (admittedly very charming) animation of the five-inch-tall man made of Danish butter who keeps trying to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" on a tiny, also butter trombone, but the fact that he keeps trying to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" on a trombone surreptitiously. There are conceptual problems with this.

I did not get to see either The Innocents (1961) or The Haunting (1963) on TCM last night, so I'm lucky they're both (for a change) available on DVD, but I did enjoy the Ninth Annual Paper Bag Mummers' Oxford Street Souling Tour. I read the Doctor's part, once. In retrospect, I should have made more of the fact that I was wearing my seven-foot Rush-knitted scarf.

I think I'm going to bed.

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you only feel aching and idiotic and are therefore still mostly whole. Please don't pull a Sandy Denny! We need you, and far more importantly, you need you, and more importantly than that, we and Gaia need you.

I think I would watch more of the films I have if I had more cool people like you and Nine closer by to watch them with. Heck, I wonder if I will ever be able to watch a movie with either one of you? I've had a copy of The River for like two years now and still haven't watched it.

Meanwhile, I have more words to write before the night is over, and a whole day's worth tomorrow, and another day after that. And then I gotta be done, somehow. Goddess I hope I make this deadline....

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

but then I fell down some stairs

Ouchhh...
And I think *I'm* having a shlimazl week. Hope you feel better tomorrow!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ow. I was wondering what happened. Please take good care of those aches and bruises. We need you. You need you.

In atmosphere, The River was more like I Capture the Castle, but I think Mira Nair must have thought of it while filming Monsoon Wedding--a much jazzier movie (with blues), but also about ongoingness in India.

You were a fine guiser, especially in Rush's Fourth Doctor scarf.

Nine

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Again, feel better. Music awaits you when you wake up.

[rosefox]

Ack for the stairs! I hope you recover quickly.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

May your bruises heal quickly, and don't spare the arnica!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Bad stairs!

Goodness, Leader of the Pack...

Take care of yourself

[negothick.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon! Arnica is available at most health-food stores, Whole Foods, etc. Even some mainstream pharmacies.

We're counting on you to be dazzling in Norwich next Wednesday (just a week away!)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, I'm so sorry to hear that you've fallen down stairs. I hope you're okay, or at least that you'll be feeling better soonest.

I'm going to go download the butter man video, as I'm out and can't be watching much right now. Thanks so much for sharing--I look forward to seeing the conceptual problems.

Take care of yourself. I've class when you're reading in Norwich next week, but I'll see if I can't move things about and make it.

[gwynnega]

Sorry to hear you fell down some stairs!

And I hope you can watch The Innocents and The Haunting soon. They're both so wonderful.

[sewollutak.livejournal.com]

What a great resource!

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

Well that was refreshing. Thanks for the link to Douglas. He's my new crush. I kept following links until I had seen him in three different commercials.

I am also reminded that I would like to see I Capture the Castle again.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

You think the trombone is also made of butter? It looks like it's a different color.