(no subject)
So Steph came home all giddy from the GLBT Israel trip and took me to the Fabulous Faygeleh Film Festival on account of ze really likes the combination of Jewishness and being a homo, which I guess is lucky for me? :D
We were totally the youngest ones there, but we have a history of going to age-inappropriate events on accident so we're kinda used to it. Thanks to ambiguously worded ads in the Tucson Weekly, we're always winding up at children's story and tamale-making time at the library or Zumba for senior citizens.
Anyway, we saw Walk on Water, which was fun because it showed a lot of places in Israel we'd been to, and a documentary on the history of the LGBT movement in Israel (social change happens FAST in a country the size of New Jersey!), but the best one was called "Tell them anything you want" and it was a documentary about Maurice Sendak, best known as the author of "Where the Wild Things Are."
Anyway, he is nuts and I love it and all you art-making people should watch it sometime especially you, Emmy.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/spike-spends-saturday-with/tell-them-anything-you-want--2
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/02/magazine/1247464354702/you-make-my-heart-sing.html
And here's another longer clip of Maurice Sendak, not from the same movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZTQib7G2Hs&feature=related
I have signed up for CouchSurfing https://www.couchsurfing.org/ because I have always had great luck throwing my lot in with strangers and since very few people from back East can make it out here we may as well show off our new city to SOMEbody :). With the arrival of our new-used fold-out couch we can have overnight company, so we're hosting for the first time this weekend. It's a young couple from Colorado who sell opals, and they're in town for the Gem and Mineral Show.
We were totally the youngest ones there, but we have a history of going to age-inappropriate events on accident so we're kinda used to it. Thanks to ambiguously worded ads in the Tucson Weekly, we're always winding up at children's story and tamale-making time at the library or Zumba for senior citizens.
Anyway, we saw Walk on Water, which was fun because it showed a lot of places in Israel we'd been to, and a documentary on the history of the LGBT movement in Israel (social change happens FAST in a country the size of New Jersey!), but the best one was called "Tell them anything you want" and it was a documentary about Maurice Sendak, best known as the author of "Where the Wild Things Are."
Anyway, he is nuts and I love it and all you art-making people should watch it sometime especially you, Emmy.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/spike-spends-saturday-with/tell-them-anything-you-want--2
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/02/magazine/1247464354702/you-make-my-heart-sing.html
And here's another longer clip of Maurice Sendak, not from the same movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZTQib7G2Hs&feature=related
I have signed up for CouchSurfing https://www.couchsurfing.org/ because I have always had great luck throwing my lot in with strangers and since very few people from back East can make it out here we may as well show off our new city to SOMEbody :). With the arrival of our new-used fold-out couch we can have overnight company, so we're hosting for the first time this weekend. It's a young couple from Colorado who sell opals, and they're in town for the Gem and Mineral Show.