Got coffee, got donuts, got wasted, erased head

[vovat]

bethje and I ate at Friday's on Wednesday night (but we don't plan to eat at Wednesday's on Friday night). The Friday's near her house had burned down, and they just recently finished rebuilding it. It looks kind of weird now, and there isn't anywhere near as much crazy crap on the walls. For dessert, I tried the Cinnabon Cheesecake. It was pretty good, but it was a little too cold when they served it, and I couldn't quite finish the whole thing. The cake was incredibly sweet.

Later that night, we watched Hate.Com, a documentary on websites run by hate groups. It was really quite scary. I don't think I could ever understand the mind that would consider murdering people of different ethnic groups to be acceptable. As a side note, Matthew Hale, one of the most prominent Internet racists, reminded both Beth and me of Tom Hanks (in terms of looks, that is, not beliefs).

The following night, we watched Eraserhead. I knew that it was weird and disturbing and a lot of people liked it, but nothing about the actual plot, so I didn't know what to expect. I don't think I'd seen anything by David Lynch before this, actually; my mom used to watch Twin Peaks, but I never did. It started out really slowly, but got better after things actually started happening. The thing is, I think this could have been a short film, but maybe the Actual Events wouldn't have been as striking without the slow parts in between them. I do think it was pretty disturbing in parts, but I don't want to be too specific about which parts, because I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. And now I know the context for "In Heaven," which the Pixies covered.



WREN: Shy, solitary, and somewhat melancholy, you
spend your days chirping in obscurity. Poor
thing, you probably get stuck doing the dishes
while everyone else has a party. Speak up for
yourself more!
[Title Unknown]
Thomas Reed
c. 18?? or 19??
===========================


The russet wren glides in among the vines
And adds another strand unto its nest;
Then, on the neighboring trellis pours its song.
The poor man's cottage is its favorite haunt;
And he is poor indeed, who to his roof
Can welcome not the yearly visitor
To cheer his door with music.


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Also, I finished reading Lies My Teacher Told Me yesterday, so expect some comments on that later today, or possibly tomorrow.

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[revme.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, I've seen a lot of David Lynch films... and haven't seen Eraserhead! Mwomp-mwomp! Although (in the course of being a Lynch Fan), I've read an awfully lot about Eraserhead. I always thought it'd be interesting to do a remake of it, just basically based off all the stuff about it I've read, See how faithful it ends up. Hate.Com sounds really good, too (aside from the awful, awful title). THere was another documentary... think it was about the Protocols of Zion.. coming out that I wanted to see.

I also wanna see Aeon Flux and I think I will on Sunday, even though I think it is most likely to suck. And today, I'm gonna see Sarah Silverman's "Jesus Is Magic"! That's gonna not be most likely to suck!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I always thought it'd be interesting to do a remake of it, just basically based off all the stuff about it I've read, See how faithful it ends up.

That's a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if anything like that has ever been tried before.

Is there any other Lynch stuff that you'd recommend seeing? And if you find out the name of the Protocols of Zion documentary, I'd be interested in knowing.

The only time I've heard of Jesus Is Magic was when Silverman was promoting it on Jimmy Kimmel a few nights ago. Is it a limited release kind of thing?

[revme.livejournal.com]

Well, most of Billy Wilder's adaptations were done with just knowing a rough outline of the story/book/whatever... which sometimes he'd just throw out the window anyway, heh. But otherwise, I'm not sure -- particularly of film-versus-film. It'd be interesting -- I'd like to see that anyway.

For Lynch Stuff -- Twin Peaks (the series) is actually really good, although hold off; next Spring I think, Paramount's going to do a much, much better set (i.e. actually including the pilot film from which the series picks up after and the second season). I'm rather fond of Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man, too. On The Air (another TV series) is very, very good, but if you like real stupid comedy (knowing how your tastes and mine are often concurrent, I think you'd probably dig it). It's out of print, but you can sometimes find videotapes around, either real or bootlegged. Mulholland Dr. is pretty good, but I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to a new Lynch Viewer (although, on the other hand, one of my best friends was completely unfamiliar with Lynch when he saw it, and fell deeply and madly in love with that film/David Lynch, so...). Everyone says to avoid Dune -- I haven't seen it, but the Mulholland Dr. loving friend (who also adores the Dune series) saw it and was hell of disappointed.

Also, just looked it up, and oddly enough, it turns out it's called Protocols Of Zion. So, there you go!

And yeah -- I get the impression they've got maybe 2 or 3 prints max of it that they're carting around the country (which is common for small films like this -- prints are very expensive!). I know that the Seattle showing is supposed to be One Week Only, but it might get held over (which makes me think they've got multiple prints).

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I might have seen The Elephant Man in school, unless there was more than one film with that title. That's kind of weird, actually, because the face of the Lady in the Radiator from Eraserhead reminded me of the Elephant Man (although it's nowhere near as extreme).

Just about all I know about Dune (both the book and the film) is that it's really long, and there's worm excrement with magical powers. (I have to wonder if that's where the Futurama writers got the idea for the Slurm Queen. I think someone mentioned that Al Gore's claiming to have ridden the mighty Moon Worm is a Dune reference, so I wouldn't be too surprised.)