Live me golden, tell me dark
I got home from seeing Pixar's Coco (2017) at the Capitol with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch to discover that my poems "די ירושה" and "Shadow-Song" have been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. The title of the former means "The Inheritance" in Yiddish; I wrote it on Erev Rosh Hashanah. The latter is a ghost poem for Elisabeth Hauptmann; I wrote it on a train to New York. I hope to write about Coco because I loved it, with its music and families and its underworld as deep as a cenote and vivid as marigolds, but right now I am just pleased with this much better ending for a day that began with waking from nightmares to migraine.
spatch to discover that my poems "די ירושה" and "Shadow-Song" have been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. The title of the former means "The Inheritance" in Yiddish; I wrote it on Erev Rosh Hashanah. The latter is a ghost poem for Elisabeth Hauptmann; I wrote it on a train to New York. I hope to write about Coco because I loved it, with its music and families and its underworld as deep as a cenote and vivid as marigolds, but right now I am just pleased with this much better ending for a day that began with waking from nightmares to migraine.
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Thank you!
You will like Coco, I think. Music and memory are the road to its underworld and back.
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I did not find it a difficult language to learn, if that helps. There was a lot I wanted to read in it.
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Thank you on on all fronts! By now, definitely today.
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Coco sounds interesting - I'm looking forward to reading your take on it.
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Thank you (and sympathies)!
Coco sounds interesting - I'm looking forward to reading your take on it.
I need sleep and time, both of which I am not getting, but I really want to say something. I do not see new movies often, so I like to write about them when I do.
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I think it's among Pixar's very best. It is almost certainly my favorite of their movies I've seen: characters, music, story, world; visually it's a knockout.
There is a piece of the plot that may be weird or difficult for you personally. You may also be fine with it, because stories are different from life. I'd just rather mention the possibility now than, in hindsight, be the person who didn't warn you, what was I thinking?
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Thank you!
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And I'm glad to hear that you liked Coco. I'm usually a big fan of Pixar's movies, but the reviews I'd been hearing on this one so far were mostly negative. Well, not negative exactly, but along the lines of 'eh, it's fine'. So I'd considered not bothering, but now I am once again intrigued!
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Thank you!
Well, not negative exactly, but along the lines of 'eh, it's fine'. So I'd considered not bothering, but now I am once again intrigued!
I think it is much more than fine. These reviews (by Latino critics) much more closely match what I saw last night.
I'll try to write about it soon!
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My impression is that critics and audiences liked Coco, but many were annoyed by the Frozen short that preceded it, especially because it wasn't all that short.
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I thought of you, Sovay, especially in the cenote!
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That's fair. It did not work at all for me.
I thought of you, Sovay, especially in the cenote!
Thank you!
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Thank you!
My impression is that critics and audiences liked Coco, but many were annoyed by the Frozen short that preceded it, especially because it wasn't all that short.
I bounced off the Frozen short to the point where I pulled my hat down over my eyes and Andy Capped my way through it. It would have done much better as the television holiday special it was originally planned as—in front of Coco, it's really shown up by its feature and it's tedious.
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You're welcome! I'm glad it was useful.
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Thank you!