look, an actual journal entry
This is sad. I've been working so much that having today off has left me feeling sort of at loose ends, and more than a little bored. I should work on DWYS, I should, I should -- but I am feeling SO LAZY -- possibly because it's a good 105 degrees outside and my a/c SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS. My brain is, basically, stewed. Which is an incredibly appealing image.
Not really.
Watched Schindler's List last night for - I think - the fourth time. This was the first time I was actually able to watch it as a film - to think about the directing, the camera-work, the lighting - while I was watching it, and I was blown away all over again, though this time for different reasons. The first few times I saw it left me feeling seared. Overwhelmed. I responded so viscerally to it, possibly because I grew up with grandparents who were survivors, and who never ever talked about it, with the exception of last year, when it looked like they were about to capture Aribert Heim. Even then, my grandfather only said 'I hope they catch him.' My grandmother just nodded.
As an aside -- when I went to the store to buy Schindler's List, the clerk looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language, then said 'I've never even heard of it.' And she was in her forties.
What the hell is wrong with people???
Not really.
Watched Schindler's List last night for - I think - the fourth time. This was the first time I was actually able to watch it as a film - to think about the directing, the camera-work, the lighting - while I was watching it, and I was blown away all over again, though this time for different reasons. The first few times I saw it left me feeling seared. Overwhelmed. I responded so viscerally to it, possibly because I grew up with grandparents who were survivors, and who never ever talked about it, with the exception of last year, when it looked like they were about to capture Aribert Heim. Even then, my grandfather only said 'I hope they catch him.' My grandmother just nodded.
As an aside -- when I went to the store to buy Schindler's List, the clerk looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language, then said 'I've never even heard of it.' And she was in her forties.
What the hell is wrong with people???