Thursday, April 06, 2006
What Once Were Foreign Trips...
Now are movies! Meaning that I've been seeing - and counting - more movies than trips this year. With my pal Bart, I just saw my 99th movie of 2006, at Clearview Chelsea's Classics Night, hosted by drag queen Hedda Lettuce - We saw the delightful Capra escapist screwball comedy, "You Can't Take It With You," which won best picture and best director in 1938. Pure joy - it washed a rollercoaster work week and its myriad strong emotions right out of my system. You read correctly, I've seen more than one movie per day so far this year, since there have only been 95 days. I actually saw 93 movies in all of 2005 - I'm on a rampant kick to see every movie I'd want to have seen if this were my last year on earth. It's a little obsessive-compulsive, yes, but nearly all the movies have been pure joy. They stay with me, they add to me and enrich my life - they make me feel painful, uncomfortable things sometimes, but the bring together truth and beauty like no other medium. Music is purer emotion - and I'm going to share some of it with my good friend in April - it's mix CD time again...
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