not football
So this weekend was arty. First Sarah and I went to see "The Science of Sleep" at the Esquire Friday night after I got home from HQ. It was...I don't know. Not what I was expecting somehow.
If you don't know, this is the new movie from Michel Gondry, director of "Eternal Sunshine" which, if you've been paying any attention at ALL, is my favorite movie. So I had high hopes and went into this one expecting to be blown away. Somehow I wasn't, but then I can't really remember if "Eternal Sunshine" blew me away at first either. This is one I'll definitely have to see again.
So I pissed Sarah off by saying this, but on the one hand this is a movie about a guy who likes a girl but he is socially crippled, has a shaky relationship with reality, and does stalkerish things that to most people would be just...weird and not attractive. So on the one hand the girl is totally justified in blowing him off and looking at other guys, and the guy is probably doomed to be isolated in his delusional world.
On the other hand though, it's about a guy who can only express himself in his dreams. He knows what he wants, but is only truly comfortable relating to others in his fantasies. He's a genuinely nice guy, he just has a hard time letting people know that and comes across as a little odd as a result. He could have deeper connection to this girl who is similarly artistic and shy, but it's painfully hard for both of them to express this connection. As a result these two people who would obviously connect on a very meaningful level only kind of flirt with each other awkwardly and nothing ever develops. In this way it's kind of a tragic non-love story.
I don't know...I can see where the movie was meant to hit the audience, I just think I was expecting something...different somehow. I don't know what. I will see it again.
So the Saturday was the big public opening of the new Denver Art Museum (a.k.a. DAM). You know the story...designed by Daniel Libeskind, his 1st completed project in North America, blah blah blah. But it's damn cool. I was s'posed to go to a special Members Preview thing (since my parents have been members for years) but got sick instead, so I had to see it along w/ the general public on the big "Hot DAM" weekend. The museum was open 36 hours straight, 10 am Saturday to 10 pm Sunday, 400 people admitted every 30 min on timed tickets that were handed out beginning Saturday morning. I headed down at 9:00 AM Saturday to get tickets for 6 PM (after OU/Texas...not missing that game!) Stood in line for almost an hour just to get tickets. The line was pretty much 2 city blocks long. Kinda crazy, but I got tickets. So we headed back at 6 to actually go.
Now I know I'm not as architecturally knowledgeable as some, but I enjoyed what I saw. It's a crazy space, but very interesting, organic-feeling, and quite suitable to an art museum. Might not want it as, say, a gymnasium, but that's not what they were shooting for, was it now? I won't try to explain it beyond that because I don't really have the vocabulary, but everybody should definitely go see it at some point.
Oh, and a side note...I'm officially on salary for Victory 2006 (the state party-funded campaign to "elect Ed Perlmutter and other Democrats"...i.e. the Perlmutter field operation explicitly NOT run by the campaign). It's good. Means I'm a little more committed to being there whenever they need me rather than just when I have time, but I'm ok with that. It's only for a month and as of Nov 16 I don't have a "real" job, so the more money I can make now the better, eh?
And that's the news from Lake Wobegon.
If you don't know, this is the new movie from Michel Gondry, director of "Eternal Sunshine" which, if you've been paying any attention at ALL, is my favorite movie. So I had high hopes and went into this one expecting to be blown away. Somehow I wasn't, but then I can't really remember if "Eternal Sunshine" blew me away at first either. This is one I'll definitely have to see again.
So I pissed Sarah off by saying this, but on the one hand this is a movie about a guy who likes a girl but he is socially crippled, has a shaky relationship with reality, and does stalkerish things that to most people would be just...weird and not attractive. So on the one hand the girl is totally justified in blowing him off and looking at other guys, and the guy is probably doomed to be isolated in his delusional world.
On the other hand though, it's about a guy who can only express himself in his dreams. He knows what he wants, but is only truly comfortable relating to others in his fantasies. He's a genuinely nice guy, he just has a hard time letting people know that and comes across as a little odd as a result. He could have deeper connection to this girl who is similarly artistic and shy, but it's painfully hard for both of them to express this connection. As a result these two people who would obviously connect on a very meaningful level only kind of flirt with each other awkwardly and nothing ever develops. In this way it's kind of a tragic non-love story.
I don't know...I can see where the movie was meant to hit the audience, I just think I was expecting something...different somehow. I don't know what. I will see it again.
So the Saturday was the big public opening of the new Denver Art Museum (a.k.a. DAM). You know the story...designed by Daniel Libeskind, his 1st completed project in North America, blah blah blah. But it's damn cool. I was s'posed to go to a special Members Preview thing (since my parents have been members for years) but got sick instead, so I had to see it along w/ the general public on the big "Hot DAM" weekend. The museum was open 36 hours straight, 10 am Saturday to 10 pm Sunday, 400 people admitted every 30 min on timed tickets that were handed out beginning Saturday morning. I headed down at 9:00 AM Saturday to get tickets for 6 PM (after OU/Texas...not missing that game!) Stood in line for almost an hour just to get tickets. The line was pretty much 2 city blocks long. Kinda crazy, but I got tickets. So we headed back at 6 to actually go.
Now I know I'm not as architecturally knowledgeable as some, but I enjoyed what I saw. It's a crazy space, but very interesting, organic-feeling, and quite suitable to an art museum. Might not want it as, say, a gymnasium, but that's not what they were shooting for, was it now? I won't try to explain it beyond that because I don't really have the vocabulary, but everybody should definitely go see it at some point.
Oh, and a side note...I'm officially on salary for Victory 2006 (the state party-funded campaign to "elect Ed Perlmutter and other Democrats"...i.e. the Perlmutter field operation explicitly NOT run by the campaign). It's good. Means I'm a little more committed to being there whenever they need me rather than just when I have time, but I'm ok with that. It's only for a month and as of Nov 16 I don't have a "real" job, so the more money I can make now the better, eh?
And that's the news from Lake Wobegon.