Bits and Pieces

[mbarrick]

This person can exist because I have met her in bits and peices. I have dated dollops of her, I am good friends with fractions of her, I have proposed to portions of her, and even once made a significant subset of her my significant other. She is passionate and romantic but not at the expense of her intellect. She's sexy and wild but never inappropriate: she'll go to the fetish club and the black tie soirée and not be out of place or uncomforable at either - there's even a good chance she'll pull them both off in the same dress. Friday she'll go to the pub and drink a pints and talk about philosophy and comic books. Saturday morning she'll shop for antiques and speak of laquers and varnishes, but Saturday night she'll down drinks that could peel paint and dance like she's kicking someone's ass in boots that make her ten feet tall and while wearing plasitc hair. She knows the bartender that freepours. She has one foot in the 19th century and the other in the 21st. Sunday she'll do the Times crossword waiting for Sunday brunch and spend the afternoon sipping coffee and listening to jazz while she makes art that I am envious of but not competative with. She'd rather have her name mentioned in a textbook than have a baby. She won't want to move in with me but she'll want to get an apartment in the same building. She'll be able to put on a black dress that makes you want to bite your hand like Squiggy and dance in a swishy way that makes you shut your eyes at work on a Wednesday afternoon and smile a private smile and makes the pile of crap on your desk go away just for a minute while you remember how she looked. And when work is out of control and you need to bring some of it home and work late, she'll sneak up behind you and kiss your neck while you are working and put a coffee beside you. She'll call you on your shit but not make you feel like shit while doing it. She'll go walking in the park with you and make fun of dogs. She's a city girl who'd rather go to a night-club than take a walk in the woods as a general rule, but she'll love the ocean and the mountians and visiting places like Duncan and Tofino. She's challenging, but rarely frustrating. She won't leave and argument unfinished and refuses to go to bed mad. When she's tired she curls up on the couch with the cats to read or watch TV and wants you with her.

I don't think she is impossible. Just very, very difficult to find.

Comments

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

'..Insead of the sappy, in-your-face BS in AI'

Ok now you're comparing Fillet Mignon to rat shit. Ai Sucked
Ai butchered Kupriks original intention, Speilberg spewed 'family' all over that movie and made us hate the characters we were supposed to admire. AI was future fluff
It had darker more interesting message - but it completely smothered those points to death when Speilberg got ahold of it.
AI had no message. AI was so sickeningly sweet we all need insulin injections from now on to survive.

Unfortunately you're right about movies being dummed down - and hey sometimes you need cinematic fluff and a good popcorn movie to go to - other times you want to be mentally stimulated.

Future Movies I liked
-Blade Runner
-Gattaca
-Clockwork Orange
-Minority Report
-Metropolis

Movies that Didn't make the cut
-AI
-Bicentenial Man

Although - I also find a lot of directors who want to make a movie with such complex plotlines that they forget to tell their audience whats going on.

Case in point

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

> I also find a lot of directors who want to make a movie with such complex plotlines that they forget to tell their audience whats going on.

Dune.

Love David Lynch, and admittedly the 4½ hour version is moderately followable, but cut down to 2½ hours I can see why he didn't want his name on it.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Croneburgs 'Naked Lunch" also suffered from the director forgetting his audience.

I have (and love) this movie - but to remotely understand it you have to have a lot of insider information (ie know the book, or Know the history of Burroughs) or watch it more than once - wich given the graphic visual and assualt to the senses - not many people would be willing to sit through it more than once.

And I once rented this movie 'The two Jakes' - unfortunately you HAD to have watched 'Chinatown' first to understand any of it.
Sequals (in my opinion) shuld at least try to be self contained.