Nil by Mouth

they keep saying it’s june

they keep saying it’s june but all this gloomy damp chilly weather…?

fighting over e-mail is not what it’s cracked up to be either. more on that later…

nice night out with D last night. we saw Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches), a french movie with pretty much no plot, no story, no discernable point. i knda liked it tho. it felt like i hung out in paris for the evening. who needs to go to paris when there are 3 hour plotless french movies out there? not me!

on the BAM tip, if you are in nyc don’t miss Nanni Moretti: I Am Self Sufficient , going on for like a month. that guy is so funny. i went on a “date” sorta with this italian guy on my floor freshman year of school and saw Caro Diario which is still one of the funniest movies i’ve ever seen. it’s funny that Jennifer Beals (here’s a errr… flashback) gets top billing in it. she is in the absolute funniest scene yes, but i don’t even think she has speaking lines. anyways i can’t wait to see 20 or 30 more of these lil’ italian gems.

one last BAM item. saw Hamlet on thursday night. man was it long, and dark, and gloomy. but i liked it also. with the exception of the funny italian man (see above) i would like to embark on a dark and gloomy entertainment feast. i may abandon The Way of All Flesh which i just started reading so i can start Darkness at Noon and then The Quality of Hurt : The Autobiography of Chester Himes. all of which should be adequetly dark and gloomy. i am especially interested in Chester Himes whom i really don’t know too much about: a black american writer, 50s-60s era. lived in LA for awhile then moved to paris and finally settled in spain. he has an unapoligetic and unromantic view of race, racism, sex, etc. we’ll see.

with help of some string and 2 pencils, i will be constructing a wearable bull’s-eye.

(i like her)

• Jun 2