Both of us need it like Hell

[sovay]

1. I slept ten hours last night. I think the last time I got more than six was in September. Today I'm kind of reclusive and slightly burnt out, but still rather happy. I may go out anyway, just to see what happens. There's sunlight.

2. ratatosk has taken to referring to my persistent belief that other people automatically find me boring/brain-dead/annoying as "Tiny Wittgenstein on My Shoulder." He is apparently modeled after Tiny Carl Jung from Dresden Codak (which I still haven't read), but I flashed on the personality sprites from Narbonic. I'm not really sure what I could promise anyone who felt like drawing me gloomy, winged chibi Wittgenstein—probably in his leather jacket, looking glumly agonized—other than a profound apology, but it seems to be a concept I really like. Also easier to integrate into a conversation than yelling "Wittgenstein!" every time I notice I'm apologizing inappropriately, because that way lies Basingstoke.

3. Speaking of which: Is that descending figure that opens the overture to Ruddigore (1887) a deliberate callback to Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre (1874), or is it just me? I was humming the one when I realized I'd switched to the other.

4. I have been eating the hell out of the durian candies sharhaun brought back from Singapore—I got a package from him after The Lighthouse, when he found out I actually liked them. They were delicious and short-lived. I have no idea where I am supposed to get more.

5. I hope someone at Badass of the Week sees this obituary. "To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler."

I really did have a spectacular weekend. I had a good week. I think the week before that was pretty good, too. (Before that was the hell-cold.) It really feels like I shouldn't sneeze or I'll break my life, but I am enjoying myself.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

You think you're boring? Yeah, that does sound like the Witgenstein on your shoulder problem. I must say that as soon as I was on a panel with you I made it a point of reading Lucan's Civil War (not sure if I have a decent translation - it's the Susan Braund translation - my Latin is rusty and this is the copy that I own) and then making sure to catch almost every panel that you were on (unless it was about a subject that I had no interest in). And I was not disappointed because you tended to add something to every panel (and I made sure to put as many Derek Jarman movies on hold from the library as I could including The Tempest, Witgenstein and Edward II)

And I should add that I was feeling rather bored and anxious that weekend and I must have walked out of at least 60% of the panels that I attended from sheer disinterest.

[sovay]

You think you're boring? Yeah, that does sound like the Witgenstein on your shoulder problem.

I did say I'm working on it! I don't really want to have to reinvent philosophy . . .

And I should add that I was feeling rather bored and anxious that weekend and I must have walked out of at least 60% of the panels that I attended from sheer disinterest.

Then thank you especially. And I'm glad you've been enjoying Derek Jarman!

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I loved Edward II but I never really gotten around to watching his other movies until now. I think it was because I was underwhelmed by Jubilee.

[sovay]

I think it was because I was underwhelmed by Jubilee.

I like Jubilee—I wrote it up briefly here and I own it on DVD—but there are ways in which it is nothing like his other films, except for the ways in which it is. The frame of Elizabeth and John Dee is classic Jarman; so is the myth of England, now a weedy lot of smashed glass and sellouts. It's a lot rougher-cut than anything else of his I've seen. We started with Caravaggio and Edward II.