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May 06 Guy Maddin and special guestsThis one sounds like a great night out.
Brand upon the brain. with live orchestra, live foley and castrato.
Village East Cinemas.
 May 03 Drawing restraint 9 We sat at a bench in a kids' playground across the street from the IFC center's movie theatre, sharing a chicken fajita panini. It was about 9pm in west village. Thursday night. It's spring but still got kind of chilly after dark. The traffic on 6th avenue was horrandous. I couldn't believe there were so many people out. It didn't seem like a nice night to go out. But people got agitated in spring time, I guess. They would find any reason to come to the city even it's not yet the weekend.
I gave her a third of the panini and a paper napkin. In the mean time I was explaining why I brought it with me. "I know we are having dinner after the movie, but this was supposed to be my late late lunch which I was hoping to put in my stomach earlier. Something came up, I just didn't have time to eat it."
"Thank you. This is awefully nice. Considering I only ate cereal and bananas all day." She said.
"So about this movie, I thought I should give you some preparation." I said. God, why do I always do this? I can't never seem to choose a right movie when hanging out with girls.
"Right, I can't remember I said I wanted to see this movie." She said, taking a bite out of the panini.
"Well, you sort of mentioned it. You probably forgot. But this movie..., do you know Matthew Barney?" I said.
"Nope." She looked at me with her big blue eyes.
"How about Damien Hirst?"
"Nope."
"Geeee..." I wished I had chosen [Basic Instinct 2] over this one. "How do I start? O.K. What we are going to see, is not in any sense a traditional definition of 'movies'. There is no story line, no dead people, no explosions. As a matter of fact, you even might not make out what exactly it's about after the viewing..." God, I really hated myself now.
"It's experimental." She added.
"Yeah..., I guess you can put it that way." I wiped off the beads on my forehead.
"So this Mr. Barney shot a series of 'experimentals' called 'The Cremaster'. From 1 to 5. And showed them along with sculptures in Guggenheim. I thoguht it was a very interesting exhibition." I said.
"Did you see all of the five movies?" She asked.
"No. It's like 6 to 7 hours all together. Couldn't possibly make it. But I saw bits and bytes along with his sculptures." I explained.
"Multimedia." She took another bite of the panini.
"Yeah..., you are right again." I started dig in my food. We've got 20 minutes.
I handed her my Snapple Iced tea, she declined politely.
"So, this movie, Mr. Barney collabourated with Bjork..." I kept going.
"You said Bjork's in it?" She asked, looking at me again.
"Yes. She is the co-star. And she scored the music." Finally, I saw some hope. I felt like the moon was shining a beam of light on me.
"Right. I remember now. I did read something on paper about it and I think I did mention I wanted to see it."
"So, it's not my fault if the movie is bad, right?" I tried to get myself off the hook right away.
June 20 The way we wereI waited this for 2 weeks. The summer outdoor film festival at Bryant park. Tonight they are playing "The way we were". I wanted to go see it. Sitting on the green lawn, waiting for the sunset and then the movie to start. It would feel like sitting inside a metal box with those highrise buildings all around. Must be romantic. But I had too much work today. Not until I finished the work and looked up from my computer, I found out it's already 10 o'clock. In the mean time I got cranky about not eating dinner yet, and what I can eat for dinner. I missed the movie...
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