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Off in the corner doing poet's work
New York got our nor'easter. In Boston it snowed lightly this morning, sullenly rained for a couple hours more, drizzled off into an ordinary chilly spring day. On the one hand, I am disappointed. On the other, had we gotten yesterday's predicted foot of snow the Brattle would almost certainly have canceled its 35 mm screening of Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky (1982) and I loved that movie so much, I can live with a near-miss storm. For years I thought there were only two members of the Bowie-Swinton species on this planet. I revised my opinion following Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). But when Anne Carlisle masked in luminescent paint declares, "And I am no less androgynous than David Bowie himself," she doesn't just mean it, we believe her, and not just because she plays both male and female roles in this strung-out, neon-lit, no-wave New York feminist sci-fi/horror. I add it to the ever-lengthening list of movies I someday want to sleep enough to write about. I don't see a lot of movies that feel like the performance art baby of Derek Jarman and Tanith Lee. The public access synth score is amazing.
1. If you are on Twitter and enjoying Jeannelle M. Ferreira's The Covert Captain, you may wish to follow its author @JeannelleWrites.
2. I like this poem: Jill Talbot, "Questions for Stephen Hawking."
3. Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, I would pay good money to see him play a peat bog ghost, thank you.
4. I am sad to see the negative reviews of Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) both because the trailers looked so promising and because I really loved del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013). I worry they broke one of the elements of the original film that made it stand out and really mattered to me.
5. I wish I'd had this article on Linda Sarsour available when I ran into that person on Facebook with a hate-on for her.
I did not expect yesterday to focus around a new book announcement. I am having to readjust my self-esteem for the fact that a couple hundred people on two different social media platforms have been saying nice things to me ever since. I think on some level I really believed maybe five people besides me would think it was cool. Pay attention, Tiny Wittgenstein.
1. If you are on Twitter and enjoying Jeannelle M. Ferreira's The Covert Captain, you may wish to follow its author @JeannelleWrites.
2. I like this poem: Jill Talbot, "Questions for Stephen Hawking."
3. Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, I would pay good money to see him play a peat bog ghost, thank you.
4. I am sad to see the negative reviews of Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) both because the trailers looked so promising and because I really loved del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013). I worry they broke one of the elements of the original film that made it stand out and really mattered to me.
5. I wish I'd had this article on Linda Sarsour available when I ran into that person on Facebook with a hate-on for her.
I did not expect yesterday to focus around a new book announcement. I am having to readjust my self-esteem for the fact that a couple hundred people on two different social media platforms have been saying nice things to me ever since. I think on some level I really believed maybe five people besides me would think it was cool. Pay attention, Tiny Wittgenstein.
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Aw.
And I wish I could be The Friend for you as well as your friend, but seriously: You are so great. You are just so great. Please believe it.
Thank you. I'm really working on it.
You're a good friend.
*hugs*
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“I’d like to give you a million dollars, And make you King of France, with your own vassals.”
“Hell no!” (CHORUS)