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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. |
Wednesday, June 2, 1999
One year ago: Dead Space
Two years ago: The Pleasantness of an Employment
I think I have a cold, darn it! I felt that little tickle in my throat yesterday, and I'm really feeling it today.
A friend of mine asked me to send him the personal ads that I used to have posted on yahoo and other places. I'd talked about having some success there, and how the act of composing an ad is helpful for clarifying one's thinking, so he was curious to see what I'd actually said. I don't know if studying what worked for me will be useful for him, but I guess it couldn't hurt. Here are parts of the ads I posted in various places.
"About me: I am a good friend, considerate and trustworthy. When I get interested in a topic, I really get interested for a while, and study up and learn all I can; then that interest fades back a little. This isn't the best for career development! At least at my job there is variety as I move from project to project. I am (or was?) quiet and shy when in a new environment. This seems less so nowadays, maybe because my subconcious mind considers all of Seattle to be my familiar territory. Who doesn't think they have a good sense of humor? but I think I do."
"The right guy for me will be intelligent, reflective, energetic, humorous, perhaps witty or sardonic. He might be an FA or size-accepting (since I am fat and busty). I'm a fun, affectionate intellectual, with interests ranging from opera to HTML. I love swing dancing and science fiction. We'll start by dating, with more to follow if things work out."
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As the festival continues, I'm getting lazy about walking to the theaters. If there's a bus coming along, I'll take it!
- Beefcake
(IMDB page for this film) I really enjoyed this! I guess you'd call it a docu-drama, since it's a mixture of reality and re-enactment. The story of Max Wiser and the "Physique" magazines of the fifties was funny, sad, and startling. There were interviews with former members of the "Athletic Models Guild", and lots of male nudity. C---, a movie buddy, asked me if I found that a turn-on. Mostly I didn't, though it was interesting to see which young men came across in the pictures as personalities, and which were just standing there flexing.
- Emporte-moi
(IMDB page for this film) The proverbial "Tender story of a young girl's coming of age," but none the worse for that. I'd say the only unusual part here is the French Canadian setting and language, and the French new wave movie (done just for the movie, I think) that fills the imagination of the thirteen-year-old girl. The movie was well-acted and I enjoyed it.
I'd half-planned to go down to the Harvard Exit for a third movie, but I'm getting too tired and I wanted to get caught up here, so I walked home instead.
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