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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. |
Sunday, November 16, 1997
Why is it that your bed feels so much more comfortable when you wake up than when you go to bed at night? I spent a delightful Saturday morning dozing and listening to Weekend Edition and other NPR radio shows that air at that time.
In the afternoon I went to see a movie, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, by Erol "Thin Blue Line" Morris. This is a documentary focussed on four different men, each with his own obsession. One is a semi-retired lion tamer, one is a topiary gardener. There is also a mole-rat specialist and a man who builds insectoid robots. I really liked this movie! Morris layers and links these guys and builds your subconscious connections between them. The title refers to the roboticist's idea of a mission to Mars using many small, simple robots, instead of one complicated one.
When the movie was over, I saw A---, my film festival buddy, standing in the back of the theater checking out the credits. (Best credit: the thankyou to Roto-Rooter for assistance with a sewercam to film the mole-rat POV.) We went and had a tasty beverage and discussed the film, and he told me about the Polish Film Festival that he was going to. I wonder if there are not a few too many special interest film festivals in Seattle now. As popular as independent or unusual films are here, there is still a limited number of people who go to them, and having the Polish, Asian, Gay, Women, and Social Justice festivals may be too many.
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Are you ever inspired to do something because another online journaler does it? After A--- went on to his next movie, I did some shopping for body products because I was inspired by Kymm's Body Shop addiction. But I couldn't bring myself to spend the big bucks on body wash or exfoliating cream. Instead, I bought more generic personal care items, then went to the Body Scent store on Broadway and bought a bottle of "Teatro alla Scala" scented oil to perfume my bathwater.
The popular scents are still fruit based. I remember when Love's Lemon started the big lemon boom in the seventies. Only after that cologne became a huge hit were we deluged with lemon dishwasher detergent, lemon bleach, lemon everything.
Since Saturday was self-indulgence day for me, I stopped on the way home and bought my dinner at "My Favorite Pierogy." Yum! I took the pierogies home with me and ate them during Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Today we had our first Cacophony Dance event in the daytime. Nick, Jay and I were there, joined by some very nice German women. This was the opposite ratio from our September event, where I was the only woman. So I got the chance to put my leading skills from the other night into practice. Jay did a good job on designing a class and putting a tape together for it ahead of time.
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