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Parts of speech just out of reach
To everyone who might conceivably call or text me in the next few days: there's no point in trying until I get my phone fixed. A piece snapped out of the hinge when I opened it this morning and now it's impossible to open or close without it shutting down. I'm calling Verizon this afternoon to see about a replacement. I have no idea how this process will take, how annoying it will be, and whether it will be possible to transfer the small cache of text messages I keep for talismanic purposes. The last time a phone of mine died, I got a replacement from my brother and there wasn't anything on it I cared about saving. Also, I don't want a smartphone.
To distract myself, I am taking part in a silly quiz. I've seen this going around on several forms of social media:
Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).
I very much doubt that I can explain everything about myself in ten movies unless I make some kind of Edmund de Waal-like memoir out of them, and "crucial-ass" sounds more like something Catullus would say than me, but I haven't done one of these in a while. In more or less the order in which I thought of them—
Splash (1984)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Wittgenstein (1993)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Metropolis (1927)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Honorable mention: I, Claudius (1976). It's a miniseries, but it occupied a great deal of space in my brain when I was in high school. A bunch of other movies occurred to me after that, but I thought I should let the original list stand. You can ask if you're curious.
I might do this with other forms of media, just to see what happens. I'm pretty sure I have ten crucial-ass plays; I don't know if I could actually winnow music (albums, musicians, songs) down far enough. I am staying the hell away from literature because the last time I tried something like that, I got a fifty-book list.
To distract myself, I am taking part in a silly quiz. I've seen this going around on several forms of social media:
Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).
I very much doubt that I can explain everything about myself in ten movies unless I make some kind of Edmund de Waal-like memoir out of them, and "crucial-ass" sounds more like something Catullus would say than me, but I haven't done one of these in a while. In more or less the order in which I thought of them—
Splash (1984)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Wittgenstein (1993)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Metropolis (1927)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Honorable mention: I, Claudius (1976). It's a miniseries, but it occupied a great deal of space in my brain when I was in high school. A bunch of other movies occurred to me after that, but I thought I should let the original list stand. You can ask if you're curious.
I might do this with other forms of media, just to see what happens. I'm pretty sure I have ten crucial-ass plays; I don't know if I could actually winnow music (albums, musicians, songs) down far enough. I am staying the hell away from literature because the last time I tried something like that, I got a fifty-book list.
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(I'd have to do ten crucial-ass albums. Literature I'd have the same issue with as you. I enjoyed the fifty-book list, though.)
Sorry about your mobile! I hope it's fixed soon.
*ETA: Martin's just ordered it. I have no excuse now.
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Which five haven't you?
(I'd have to do ten crucial-ass albums. Literature I'd have the same issue with as you. I enjoyed the fifty-book list, though.)
Thank you! I'd love to see your ten albums.
Sorry about your mobile! I hope it's fixed soon.
I believe I have secured a replacement, but I'm saying nothing more definite until it arrives in the mail and I've got it activated. Thanks.
Martin's just ordered it. I have no excuse now.
Regret nothing! It's great.
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A Canterbury Tale, The Long Voyage Home,The Pillow Book, The Legend of Hell House, and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.
*I'd love to see your ten albums.*
Hmm, let me think...
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Well, I recommend all of them. I've written about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and a little about The Legend of Hell House, but never in much detail about The Long Voyage Home or much at all about The Pillow Book. I will try to change that when I can think again. Right now I am the kind of ill that's just sapping my brain.
Hmm, let me think...
Prrrt.