I took my last final today. But before that, I had to discover that our washing machine is broken again. Yet another visible manifestation of my grandma’s mental deterioration. I heard that she wandered away from the house while I was at work Monday, and some stranger dropped her off at the house.
After class, I talked to my aunt Gail on the phone, I burned them a DVD of the videos I took during my vacation with her and the family, she liked it.
Watched this 1962 Roman Polanski movie Knife in the Water. I really liked it, it explores rivalry and one-upmanship, something I experience all too often. It was really powerful in developing the characters.
According the the encyclopedia article, this was Roman Polanski’s first film…it’s shot very well. “It is sometimes referred to as one of the best debut feature films in history (alongside Citizen Kane by Orson Welles and Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard).” I didn’t care for Citizen Kane, but I adored Breathless.
I’ve been trying to work up to watching Nights of Cabiria, but it’s two hours long, and I would need to watch it with someone.
I watched Romance again with Zero (his first time seeing it), and it was great to fall in love with that movie again. After flipping through the mind-numbingly pretentious and utterly unbelievable Anatomy of Hell that time with Drew, it’s great to find a more accessible (and almost funny, in a strange way) side of Catherine Breillat.
I love not being in school, I can catch up on all the novels and films I’ve been neglecting.
Kathleen is apparently missing, I was on the phone with her and it cut out. 30 minutes later, her boyfriend calls and says her car is gone and she’s gone. Apparently they have some enemies…bad people he lent a trailer to and then they slashed the tires. You can’t make this shit up.
Well, it’s 2:30, I should clean up my popcorn mess, I’ve been cooking it on the stove like Kathy taught me to.
I love Kathy, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 23 years, it’s that you can’t save people from themselves.
Categories: Ennui