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Jul. 7th, 2006 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmKali and I are getting together for a Descensus production day on Monday. That doesn't mean you'll get new story that night, but it does mean that when the chunk where we are now is done, there will be a flurry of artifacts to go with it. This is exciting. I have also realized that she must bring her digital camera, so you all can see pictures of the coat and perhaps to take some images for Descensus, although that means dealing with my hair (don't ask, you'll see).
Pirates with Kat and Mira tonight. And I'm gratified to see the kinky, queer and poly of my friends list talking about their panties combusting. I'm not reading spoilers, but I feel reassured now that it hasn't turned into a lame love-triangle story along the way.
This is the first time I'll go to the movie theatre since becoming actively celiac (last time was at the beginning of the weekend that became the trigger event -- when I saw V for Vendetta). Everything I Google is conflicting about the actual safety of both movie theatre popcorn and all the brands of microwave popcorn I really like (I could smuggle in), so it may be stupid health popcorn again, which means no butter. I suppose I could add my own. This shit is hard. I will bring Glutano lemon wafers for my safe sugar fix though. There is nothing else in my life where I say, "Better to be safe than sorry." Nothing. I hate having to live this way Every Single Day. I believe in one scary thing every day, and it shouldn't be lunch. Eventually it will stop being important to me to keep saying "I reject this," but right now, it seems I need to, as if I need to create a demarcation between who I am (not cautious), and how I need to be who I am (carefully, carefully).
All of this said, going to the movies is one of the greatest pleasures in my life, and always has been. With very few exceptions, going to the movies has not been ruined for me by seeing how movies are made, whch everyone insisted would happen -- well it hasn't. To me, digital projection and all that shit aside, movies are old magic really -- illusions of light and sound painstakingly pieced together, often over years, to create a story you should not believe, but must anyway. Is there any other so obvious proof that science and magic not only bear the same roots, but are merely words we choose based on society's mastery of knowledge as regards a subject? I became an actor because of the movies, I also came out because of the movies; I learned to ride horses, and I went to Australia. Through movie people I have discovered what family and work look like to me, the scope of my ambition and that life is less about closing circles and more about living in spiral -- borrowing your past to make some stranger future. Movies, as far as I am concerned, are the most powerful shit in the world. Books are heaven, and they've oft saved my life, but we're talking about a medium that has to succeed in its secret whisperings in front of hundreds of people who can easily band against it and that often hasn't the nuance (that books do) to defend itself. Brave stuff, movies.
Pirates with Kat and Mira tonight. And I'm gratified to see the kinky, queer and poly of my friends list talking about their panties combusting. I'm not reading spoilers, but I feel reassured now that it hasn't turned into a lame love-triangle story along the way.
This is the first time I'll go to the movie theatre since becoming actively celiac (last time was at the beginning of the weekend that became the trigger event -- when I saw V for Vendetta). Everything I Google is conflicting about the actual safety of both movie theatre popcorn and all the brands of microwave popcorn I really like (I could smuggle in), so it may be stupid health popcorn again, which means no butter. I suppose I could add my own. This shit is hard. I will bring Glutano lemon wafers for my safe sugar fix though. There is nothing else in my life where I say, "Better to be safe than sorry." Nothing. I hate having to live this way Every Single Day. I believe in one scary thing every day, and it shouldn't be lunch. Eventually it will stop being important to me to keep saying "I reject this," but right now, it seems I need to, as if I need to create a demarcation between who I am (not cautious), and how I need to be who I am (carefully, carefully).
All of this said, going to the movies is one of the greatest pleasures in my life, and always has been. With very few exceptions, going to the movies has not been ruined for me by seeing how movies are made, whch everyone insisted would happen -- well it hasn't. To me, digital projection and all that shit aside, movies are old magic really -- illusions of light and sound painstakingly pieced together, often over years, to create a story you should not believe, but must anyway. Is there any other so obvious proof that science and magic not only bear the same roots, but are merely words we choose based on society's mastery of knowledge as regards a subject? I became an actor because of the movies, I also came out because of the movies; I learned to ride horses, and I went to Australia. Through movie people I have discovered what family and work look like to me, the scope of my ambition and that life is less about closing circles and more about living in spiral -- borrowing your past to make some stranger future. Movies, as far as I am concerned, are the most powerful shit in the world. Books are heaven, and they've oft saved my life, but we're talking about a medium that has to succeed in its secret whisperings in front of hundreds of people who can easily band against it and that often hasn't the nuance (that books do) to defend itself. Brave stuff, movies.
