"This Is My Happening and It Freaks Me Out!"
Alternative Dream Theory: Regarding the Cockroach Coincidence from my last post, my guru Matt Katz hypothesizes that, when I hit the cockroach, the psychic force of my blow created a tesseract, propelling the dry parts of the bug through a crack in space-time, towards the person I was thinking about, along with my dream about him. Duh! I don't know why I didn't think of that before.
I'm still going to talk about Pride Weekend and the Last Anti-Hoot eventually.
In the meantime, in my 30-second break between urgent tasks...
1. I read Watchmen.
2. I installed an air conditioner, and I'm paranoid that it's gonna fall out the window and kill someone, even though I secured it pretty well, and the window faces a courtyard/junkyard where no one ever goes.
3. I stayed up really late with Joseph, Thain and Allan to watch Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a film I was not prepared for. When it was over, Thain did things around the room while Joseph, Allan and I curled up in bed and discussed whether or not the world is about to end. My position was: No, it's not going to end. Joseph's position was: Please tell me it's not going to end. Allan's position was: Curled up.
4. The Pansy Division song "Political Asshole" is preceded by a man's voice saying, "...you will drink the black sperm of my VENGEANCE!" I must have listened to that song a thousand times, but I never knew where that line came from. So, in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, when Z-Man was about to murder a loin-clothed straight guy who had sexually rejected him, I started to feel the pangs of recognition, and as soon as he said "...you will," I joined in for the remainder of his proclamation. My companions were frightened. I had never seen the movie before. Was I possessed? Luis, was I?
Love
Dan
I'm still going to talk about Pride Weekend and the Last Anti-Hoot eventually.
In the meantime, in my 30-second break between urgent tasks...
1. I read Watchmen.
2. I installed an air conditioner, and I'm paranoid that it's gonna fall out the window and kill someone, even though I secured it pretty well, and the window faces a courtyard/junkyard where no one ever goes.
3. I stayed up really late with Joseph, Thain and Allan to watch Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a film I was not prepared for. When it was over, Thain did things around the room while Joseph, Allan and I curled up in bed and discussed whether or not the world is about to end. My position was: No, it's not going to end. Joseph's position was: Please tell me it's not going to end. Allan's position was: Curled up.
4. The Pansy Division song "Political Asshole" is preceded by a man's voice saying, "...you will drink the black sperm of my VENGEANCE!" I must have listened to that song a thousand times, but I never knew where that line came from. So, in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, when Z-Man was about to murder a loin-clothed straight guy who had sexually rejected him, I started to feel the pangs of recognition, and as soon as he said "...you will," I joined in for the remainder of his proclamation. My companions were frightened. I had never seen the movie before. Was I possessed? Luis, was I?
Love
Dan
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I hesitated to respond to this, since revealing my readership will likely make you less inclined to write about me with impunity (and I love stumbling accidentally on thoughts about myself), but I just have to know what you thought of Watchmen. I re-read it this past fall, and thought a lot about what made it different this time, what things I wished I could experience for the first time again, and how I was mildly curious but otherwise completely unexcited about the coming film adaptation. (IMDB fun fact: Terry Gilliam was once rumored to have designs on directing it, but eventually rejected the project, deeming it "unfilmable.")
Terry Gilliam is right and wrong. There is a movie in there somewhere. A really simple one. A SUPERHERO one. The greater themes of the book aren't filmic. The literary high points of the book are in the Moby Dick-style, cross-genre text juxtapositions. In those moments, the content is unfilmable.
The superhero plot. That you can do. That's probably what they've already done.
Did you notice that Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was written by Roger Ebert? As in Siskel and Ebert? I think that's interesting...
Brian