My Friends Only Like Shit
OK, here's the deal: Do any New Yorkers who might chance to read this Live Journal today want to go to a movie with me tonight?
It's called "Calamari Union", and it's playing at BAM Rose Cinemas as part of the Aki Kaurismäki restrospective. Kaurismäki is this fucking amazing Finnish director whose films are some of the most hysterically deadpan works I've ever seen in any medium; this particular film (which I haven't seen) is supposed to be one of his best, in which 15 men named Frank embark on a quest to somehow travel from Helsinki to one of its suburbs, which proves extremely difficult and often fatal for most of the Franks. Supposedly it almost out-Buñuels Buñuel, while remaining entirely Kaurismäki. I'm stoked.
But here's the thing: my friends only want to watch shit. OK, I've never understood this: I have what I would consider reasonably intelligent friends, who have somehow managed to at least a working knowledge of cinema- how did this happen, when they only want to watch shit? Why do I keep having conversations with people that go something like
"Hey, do you want to go see the screening of 'The Grand Illusion' with me on Monday?"
-----"I don't know, I was going to see Charlie's Angels 2 on Thursday."
"I sort of want to see that. Come with me Monday- I'll go with you Thursday."
-----"Oh, I don't know. How about seeing Terminator 3 instead?"
Here's my problem: There's nothing wrong with shit, per se. It's fun, and you can get really high before you see it, and that's fun, too.
But for Christ's sake, why the fuck does everybody I know limit themselves to shit exclusively, these days?
Aren't you supposed to alternate shit with non-shit in order to get a fully balanced cultural diet?
C'mon. Anyone want to go with me? It's gonna be great, and I'm sick of going to the European films by myself.
It's called "Calamari Union", and it's playing at BAM Rose Cinemas as part of the Aki Kaurismäki restrospective. Kaurismäki is this fucking amazing Finnish director whose films are some of the most hysterically deadpan works I've ever seen in any medium; this particular film (which I haven't seen) is supposed to be one of his best, in which 15 men named Frank embark on a quest to somehow travel from Helsinki to one of its suburbs, which proves extremely difficult and often fatal for most of the Franks. Supposedly it almost out-Buñuels Buñuel, while remaining entirely Kaurismäki. I'm stoked.
But here's the thing: my friends only want to watch shit. OK, I've never understood this: I have what I would consider reasonably intelligent friends, who have somehow managed to at least a working knowledge of cinema- how did this happen, when they only want to watch shit? Why do I keep having conversations with people that go something like
"Hey, do you want to go see the screening of 'The Grand Illusion' with me on Monday?"
-----"I don't know, I was going to see Charlie's Angels 2 on Thursday."
"I sort of want to see that. Come with me Monday- I'll go with you Thursday."
-----"Oh, I don't know. How about seeing Terminator 3 instead?"
Here's my problem: There's nothing wrong with shit, per se. It's fun, and you can get really high before you see it, and that's fun, too.
But for Christ's sake, why the fuck does everybody I know limit themselves to shit exclusively, these days?
Aren't you supposed to alternate shit with non-shit in order to get a fully balanced cultural diet?
C'mon. Anyone want to go with me? It's gonna be great, and I'm sick of going to the European films by myself.