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[rm]

I'm going out to do promo work in the -cold- now.

Saw parents last night, they liked the show and are being helpful with the current drama.

Stayed up watching Moulin Rouge last night for the first time in ages and it hit me much much differently than it usually does. Will process that later when I'm awake. Strange strange film and I remain annoyed that I never saw it on the big screen.

All the sushi places in my neighborhood have gone insane.

I need coffee, which I can't actually have.

In watching everyone I know swoon over Kill Bill, I think I can now say my movie viewing habits boil down to "directors with neuroses that interest me, and directors with neuroses that don't." Which doesn't account at all for Sam Mendes and his blood splattered on white walls thing (two movies was weird, he does it a third time, and I'll be totally like WHAT THE FUCK?)

I would really like the endless loop of Children of the Revolution to leave my brain now. Really really really.

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[neo-nym.livejournal.com]

All the sushi places in my neighborhood have gone insane.
Explain, mad fish disease?

[rm.livejournal.com]

No, like I tried to order food last night, and everything was either closed early, or was no longer a Japanese restaurant or had abruptly changed their menu or had in some other way foiled my plans.

[neo-nym.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get it. Fickle restaurant syndrome. There is nothing worse, however, than to have your appetite focused on a particular food and be denied. When that happens to me I eat all around it, never really satisfied until I get what the original craving was for.

Bundle up for the cold....good luck.

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

Because I am Selfless and Caring and all, I'm drinking coffee for you.

You're welcome.

[anathemadevice.livejournal.com]

>Sam Mendes and his blood splattered on white walls thing

we just did 3 eBay spots with him (a prick) and there were no blood-splattered walls.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Same here, re. both coffee and Mendes; I'm quite curious to see how working with a cinematographer other than Conrad Hall affects his visual style.

[kalyx.livejournal.com]

I think I can now say my movie viewing habits boil down to "directors with neuroses that interest me, and directors with neuroses that don't."

totally get this. This is one of my biggest barriers to not always getting on with others who are huge movie buffs. I love film, but so much of the "classics" just don't speak to me. Some of it is because much of film is about telling the stories of men which often doesn't speak to me personally. The problem of not enough women involved in screen writing and directing and not nearly enough talented female filmmakers.

However, since my adolescent film obsessions were tied up in hong kong martial arts films and was dragged to every action film released in the 80s by my mother, Tarantino tickles me for taking all that is cool and interesting in these junk genres and using the language of the genres to make a film that surpasses everything it borrows from. And Tarantino writes the best female characters. I didn't notice this until I was looking for a film clip to show to a female sexuality discussion group when I settled on Fabienne's monologue in Pulp Fiction on wanting "a pot". Great scene and I'm finding it doesn't stand alone. Tarantino writes really fascinating women.