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spoiled

In light of how spazzy everyone was/is about spoiling last night's Breaking Bad finale, I thought I'd just get all the spoilers -- for every significant narrative, throughout human history -- out of the way, once and for all. Spoiler alert! . . . . . SPOILERS The snake is an instigator.  Pharaoh loses, but Yul Brynner is still magnificent.  O –  that greedy Judas. Romans win. Romans lose. Crusaders go 2-5-1, failing to cover the spread. Earth: not flat after all.  France gets uppity, then very downity.  South: not rising again. Custer makes a little big mistake. Germans lose. Germans lose again. The pigs are just like people! Maybe even worse!  George kills Lennie, but not because of the rabbits. Dorothy 2   Witches 0. Instead of happiness, Gatsby finds the bottom of the pool. Soylent Green is people but perhaps very delicious people. It's really earth. And they blew it up. The maniacs

what's it all about?

Watched Alfie last night. One of C's favourites. A strange movie, mostly for how sour and unresolved it is. Almost completely propelled by the dark charm of Michael Caine, so of course they remade it twice . In an echoey way, it reminded me of A Clockwork Orange – the beautiful destroyer laid low. And o god the apartments are awful.

outland

Watched Outland on YouTube the other night. The whole premise is this: let's put Sean Connery in a space movie, but then let's make that space movie into a western. Which is, not surprisingly, fairly successful. What it lacks, however, is any real sense of tension. I mean, come on: do you *really* think Sean Connery is going to die? This is not The Man Who Would Be King . Still, just like that movie, it did allow me to do my Sean Connery impersonation a lot, and what more motivation do you need?

this post is miscellaneous

Some Oona drawings, lately. Spooky, ethereal ... an apocalypse in primary colours. Wonderful. But then she brings *other* drawings home, which are obviously not hers. * * * * * Stealing? Not so good (at least wait until you're doing your MFA). But one of her daycare teachers gave her an out by saying that the kids sometimes 'exchange' or 'trade' artwork. Hmmm.   * * * * * Another reason for Fall: the smell of wood smoke in the dark. * * * * * What do you call a donkey with three legs? A wonkey. * * * * * Here are some owls I drew for the invitations to Oona's birthday party. Also: children's birthday parties are completely off the hook. * * * * * There are some new things in the shop . * * * * * A last note on this Syrian business, which has demonstrated, once again, how enervated the public discourse has become, how shrugging and turn-the-page. At least we could be hones

goodbye summer

GOODBYE SUMMER. Goodbye humidity, goodbye cobwebs, goodbye shirtless neighbours, goodbye four-inch moustache bugs, goodbye demented moth, goodbye sea-doo morons, goodbye air-conditioning, goodbye yoga pants, goodbye fun runs, goodbye stinking garbage, goodbye wasps, goodbye company barbecues, goodbye soft bananas, goodbye fruit flies, goodbye summer reading lists, goodbye robot movies, goodbye soulless cottagers, goodbye where-are-we-going-this-weekend, goodbye fan in my face, goodbye bad tattoo I can see on half your ass, goodbye fat man on bike, goodbye drunk guy in the park, goodbye tank-top prostitute, goodbye teenage moms pushing strollers around and around the Tim Hortons, goodbye mosquitoes, goodbye road trips, goodbye grown men in loud shorts, goodbye street music, goodbye outdoor gear enthusiasts, goodbye toothless people yelling in the street, goodbye giant untrained dogs (your owners won't walk you in the winter), goodbye half-assed renovation projects, goodbye strang