As useless as tits on a boar.
-from a Mel Bochner “piece of art”
Destruction is easier than harmony, but not more powerful.
-source unknown? This is what happens when I watch TV sometimes…
Daily Archives: January 4, 2007
Cable: Underworld Evolution
OK I only caught the last who knows how long of this (hour?), but I turned the TV on right in the middle of a wordless, very sexy, very NUDE (nuder than most!) sex scene between Scott Speedman and Kate Beckinsale. Woah. For a minute, I thought maybe it was post midnight and the TV had accidentally been left on Cinemax; it’s always so disconcerting to come home to that!
I’ll have to try to watch it from the beginning sometime; I know neither of them are “Great Films” but I did enjoy the first Underworld. Vampires, leather, gloom: sometimes it’s just what you’re looking for in a flick.
Fiction: “The Zero” by Jess Walter
“A Novel of September 12” (per the dust jacket). Good to know, going in.
Paranoia. Distrust. Confusion. Gaps in time, in meaning, in understanding, and between people.
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn’t be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.
Not really sure how I felt about it. Sometimes I was as confused as Remy. Other times I felt the answer was obvious.
Big Screen: The Painted Veil.
Serene and slow…and very, very sad.
The emotions run the gamut during this one: from mean and horrible to tender and distressed. You can know someone for a long time…without knowing them. Can’t you?
We both liked it.