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Half-watching a rather depressing short British film entitled The song of Lunch about a 50 year old editor and poet so lost inside himself and his poems that he doesn't see the old friend he arranged to have lunch with, or even hear her, she's moved on, yet he is stuck 15 years in the past. Caught inside his own misery and self-absorption of his own memories. Using alcohol to continue to escape from her...the loss love, he lost her to a fellow writer over 15 years prior. It stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. With Rickman's trademark sneering voice reading the poem as a voice over.
Not quit sure it works...it has a feel meditative depression and irony to it. Not a movie I recommend to anyone who feels remotely depressed or frustrated with the current direction of their life.
Finished watching The walking dead and American Horror Story as well.
Can't really state I like one over another. One is a bit more comical...in an odd and almost sly way. Too sly, I think. You don't laugh so much as smile and nod at the
angry sneer. Sort of like...Mona Lisa's smile I think - the humor reminds me of that.
The other...seems almost too earnest for its subject matter, I wish it was a bit more
tongue in cheek and took itself a little less seriously. Also to date the best bits are still with the zombies. When the zombies leave the screen or the threat of the zombies does...it becomes a bit plodding and dull. Similarily...American Horror Story grinds to a halt when it moves away from the house and its ghosts. Both rely far too much on the horror, and don't have much else there.
Wrote a lengthy bit about this...but rather sleepy and screwed up with the html formatting again. Royally. It was impossible to fix. What I did was inadvertently put a "/a" instead of "/b" which resulted in four paragraphs of text being reformatted to look like this "Example="example" "Good="good". Ugh. I hate formatting. Don't have the patience for it. Never have. Gives me a bloody headache.
Used to drive the moderators on one of the private scholarly focused Buffy fan sites nutty whenever I posted long essays or metas. ( lengthy bit about the perils of attempting to post meta on insanely formatted Buffy fan sites back in 2005 )
Not quit sure it works...it has a feel meditative depression and irony to it. Not a movie I recommend to anyone who feels remotely depressed or frustrated with the current direction of their life.
Finished watching The walking dead and American Horror Story as well.
Can't really state I like one over another. One is a bit more comical...in an odd and almost sly way. Too sly, I think. You don't laugh so much as smile and nod at the
angry sneer. Sort of like...Mona Lisa's smile I think - the humor reminds me of that.
The other...seems almost too earnest for its subject matter, I wish it was a bit more
tongue in cheek and took itself a little less seriously. Also to date the best bits are still with the zombies. When the zombies leave the screen or the threat of the zombies does...it becomes a bit plodding and dull. Similarily...American Horror Story grinds to a halt when it moves away from the house and its ghosts. Both rely far too much on the horror, and don't have much else there.
Wrote a lengthy bit about this...but rather sleepy and screwed up with the html formatting again. Royally. It was impossible to fix. What I did was inadvertently put a "/a" instead of "/b" which resulted in four paragraphs of text being reformatted to look like this "Example="example" "Good="good". Ugh. I hate formatting. Don't have the patience for it. Never have. Gives me a bloody headache.
Used to drive the moderators on one of the private scholarly focused Buffy fan sites nutty whenever I posted long essays or metas. ( lengthy bit about the perils of attempting to post meta on insanely formatted Buffy fan sites back in 2005 )