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Memo, Sep 19 2003 TO: CSB Subject: Scaaaaary Movies Hey Y, do you like scaaaaary movies? want to go see 28 Days Later with me on wednesday?
X re: Scaaaaary Movies I've noticed you prefer e-mail correspondence to phone conversations. Duly noted. Really, though, I love scaaaary movies, and no one wants to see that one with me (the excuse is either "it looks like the Blair Witch Project" or "It looks too scary. I'd rather stay at home and watch crap like 13 Ghosts." Really, some people just can't handle digital video, and yet others can't handle horror films unless they aren't scarier than your average amateur haunted house. But I digress...) But I just think I'm too busy this week. However, if you can't find somebody to see it with you this week and want to go next week, I have nothing but time. And, occasionally, money. So lemme know... my play closes on Saturday. Cheers, RE: re: Scaaaaary Movies Y,
hey, i actually liked blair witch when i first saw it.... i just really love horror films and 28 days later looks like the most substantial horror film thats been released in at least 10 years. i sincerely hope i'm not disappointed. so yur busy all week, thats ok because i went to see it last night and it wasnt playing (at least not in c-burg) so james and i actually watched charlie's angels...who would have thought! anyway it may not even come to the mall for a week or so. i'm sure we'll have time. i hope the play is going well, maybe if i can get off my lazy ass i'll come see it. sad week, sad X...james is moving to texas tomorrow and i lost my prozac! woe is me!! i'm gonna put my head through the moniter right after i send this! fairwell cruel world, X re: RE: re: Scaaaaary Movies i'm gonna put my head through the moniter right after i send this! Well shit, don't do that. Are you saying that James is your prozac? Or that he was your regular black market prozac supplier? What is your favorite scary movie or horror film, if you have one? Where in Texas? Did you not agree that Blair Witch was an ingenious concept to produce an effective film that has no production value, and yet by creating such an uncontrolled environment with actors and storyline they essentially presented a great concept and a cool ending and that's it? Do you mind that I'm full of questions today? I'm in the New Media Center right now, and as soon as I send this I am going to continue editing. I hope you find something that will make you less sad, but in absence of that, I hope your sadness is ultimately cathartic. And if that doesn't wash, I'll buy you a Slurpee. Y RE: re: RE: re: Scaaaaary Movies actually, Y, blair witch wasnt in such an uncontrolled environment...acting wise, yes...but all the planning that went into the "hoax" was well considered. the reason i was so impressed with it was because i had seen the special on sci fi that made it look like it had some basis in reality and thats what made it so excitiing in the theatre. plus , it was just totalleh awesome!! don't tell anybody i said that, you know, have to keep up my image. james, although extemely uplifting, is not my prozac. just the fact that i lost my medicine and am starting to feel pissed off all the time, and then james leaves... i dont know...he's kind of a source of comfort and stability for me (yeh, how much sense does that make?). he's the guy who was always around, always up for something exciting, and generally nice to look at and listen to. there is no end to his wit, his sarcasm, his all around nasty attitude and disregard for people's feelings. he's a special guy. oh yeh, austin texas. favorite horror film...hmmm, there are plenty that i havent yet seen. texas chainsaw massacre never gets old. i'm reallly pissed that all the movie stores in town have bride of reanimator but not reanimator!! of course carrie,the shining and the exorcist (which i read has an upcoming prequel coming soon!). i didnt like dawn of the dead all that much, which surprised me. i really have a soft spot for the cheesy naked chik ones, the massacres, april fools day, psycho sisters. you should really suggest some to me...there are so many to choose from! bye, X Subject: Uh-Oh I really turned you off with my complaints of Blair Witch, huh. I just thought the concept was so good they could have done anything with it, and then they just did nothing with it. Just a lack of imagination... shit, I'm still doing it, aren't I? You think I suck because I didn't really dig Blair Witch. Dammit. Now you won't watch Re-Animator with me over Slurpees. I don't even know if you like Slurpees, but if you live in this area during the summer, I think you kinda have to. -Y P.S. 28 Days Later is playing in Roanoke... RE: Uh-Oh Y, i'm sure all the blair witch stuff you said is accurate, i'm just too drunk to think about it right now. and guess what?! i'm writing you from chie mey's fl9wer shop downtown cuz this is where kate lives. weird eh? anyhoo, are you fucking kidding me...i'd drive to st louis to see 28 days later. roanoke is noooo sweat. i'll write more tomorrow. X re: RE: Uh-Oh Cool, I didn't fuck up with my Blair Witch comments! Let me know when and to Roanoke we'll go. Cheers, Y (none) hey sport, how's the play goin? good i hope. you know what...talking about movies with you is going to be difficult since yur such a film buff, i'm sure everything i say will be met with a contradiction. so whatever, i dont care. jesus i dont even like blair witch all that much! who cares!! i'm sick of talking about it. yeh, slurpees are ok, i havent had one this summer yet. you know, i'm really pissed off right now and i'm not sure why, so i guess yur gonna hear about it mister! i'm sick of everything and everyone! who the fuck can you ever depend on! you know what i mean, Y? have you ever heard of that book "fear of flying" by erica jong? its one of those feminist/sex/what are men good for books that i'm reading right now. it's so frustrating!! i feel like my heads gonna explode! i mean, whats the point of ever doing anything if everything ends up so shitty all the time! no wonder i like slasher films so much, they help relieve tension. if you plan to continue corresponding with me, then you'd better get used to erratic mood swings and a pessimistic outlook! i hope you find my outbursts entertaining. X re: Play's going fine, I guess. Heard of the book, never read it. I think after all of it, we depend on either; 1)those things that we know we can conjure ourselves 2) anything whose permanance is assumed equal to our own Which may be why people turn inside when let down, because that which is of us will be with us until we're fucking dead. Its hard to choose what to depend on, because it seems so important to be able to depend on something. I think all of us are threatened by lonliness more than anyone would care to admit, and when I hear those oddballs say, "I'll never be alone because I have Jesus," I envy them. Even when they are truly alone, they don't feel alone. Lucky bastards. The question from me to you, Y, is whether you feel like you can depend on yourself. If you do, I'm envious of you. I'm still trying to figure out how dependable I really am. It seems easier to be somebody else's rock than your own. And why is that? Why is it better for somebody to surprise you with a cake than to treat yourself to one because you feel you deserve it? And I clearly am in no danger of cheering you up. Maybe it'll help if I tell you about the time I killed a man. It was a dark and stormy night, although using dark as an adjective about night seems a little boneheaded, doesn't it? I'll pay attention when somebody starts off with, "It was a bright and stormy night-" oh, the boss is looking. I gotta' go. Send us the word, no matter how bleak it is I'll revel in it. ~Y RE: re: your letters make me feel better! more later. re: RE: re: your letters make me feel better! more later. Well that's not bleak at all! I look forward to whatever more is, and will await the arrival of later... Sincerely, RE: re: RE: re: you are such an incredible smartass...keep up the good work! re: RE: re: RE: re: I can't tell if you are actually impressed by my smartass prowess... or if you're just being a smartass. My play is over tonight. 28 Days Later is still playing at the big theater in Roanoke. So...? health, RE: re: RE: re: RE: re: Y, i often don't know the beginnings and ends of my sarcasm...your guess is as good as mine. i think the movie is actually playing in chriatiansburg now and yes i want to see it. i should be free most of next week. sorry i missed your play, but hey, you missed my sculpture show so we're even. besides, i've had a crappy work filled week and i won't be much fun til its over. i guess theres a possibility i'll be at the cellar tomorrow depending on how i feel. X (none) Y, about tonite....that was interesting! i hope you understand that i just needed a kiss. dont hold it against me! and dont expect that from now on, mister! anyway, thanks for putting up with me. 28 days later still on. X re: Hey, as long as you liked it, I'm happy. British zombies on video... still just in Roanoke. Tomorrow's no good, but Wednesday might be. Thursday is iffy. Friday would be good. Saturday is no good. Too bad. They say Saturday night is the lonliest night of the week. Call or write, they both get to me eventually... Cheers, Subject: regarding 28 Days Later yes, i think wednesday would be great. do you actually still want to go or are you pissed off at me now? X re: regarding 28 Days Later 1:10pm, 3:55pm, 7:50pm, and 10:20pm at the Valley View Grande in scenic Roanoke Virginia. Personally, the later the better. Pick one, and tell me when and where to pick you up. Y RE: re: regarding 29 Days Later Y, sorry, i havent felt like speaking to anyone today. no, i'm not pissed off at you, but i am pissed off in general. i dont want to see the movie tomorrow...i'd rather finish a 3 day spree of wallowing in self pity. friday i have already made plans. i'm sure you'll have no trouble finding someone else to go with you. meanwhile, if you dont hear from me, just assume i'm bleeding to death in my bathtub. (that was a joke). X re: regarding So I know you don't want to see the movie... ....and I know how hard it is to type on your keyboard while you're bleeding to death in a bathtub... ....and I also appreciate that you aren't pissed off at me... But. Maybe, just maybe you really don't need to worry about whether or not you're in a good mood, or whether need to be entertaining or pleasant to people around you, and realize that if you're going to wallow in self-pity, you might as well do so in my car on the way to Roanoke to see a zombie flick. Seriously, you don't even talk. You don't even need to justify your bad mood, or even justify your need to not talk. Plus, I got a CD player. You can play DJ while I drive. Then we get to the flick. I'll buy you a ticket, so you lose no money in the deal. Then we watch. In silence if necessary. Either the flick is good, or it isn't. But if you have a good time and it cheers you up... well done. If you stay in a bad mood... well, you were already in a bad mood and there is nothing lost. Then we drive home, in silence. You can take a nap if you like. No need to entertain me, I've got gum. And I drop you off at your next depot of wallowing, whichever it may be... You didn't have a good time? No harm, no foul. We go on with our lives with precious little time wasted. And what do I get out of this bargain? Firstoff, I got to see a film I really want to see. Trainspotting director makes digital video horror thing? I'm there! Secondoff, I got to see it in a theater with stadium seating. Neato. Thirdoff, I pay for the tickets myself, which, since I just got paid, is a relatively cheap way to feel like I have financial security and can blow a wad if I want to. Makes me feel like a little mini Rat Pack member throwing tips to the doorman... y'know, for an extra $6.50. Bargain. And finally... I got to see the movie with the person I wanted to see it with. I made a plan and saw it through. Sure the movie sucked and she had a terrible time, wallowing in self-pity. But otherwise, it was all as I intended. Clearly, I am in control of my life. I can exercise the will to do carry out tasks as I see fit, such as watching a movie with a chosen second party. And in a world gone mad, that relatively insignificant amount of good fortune exercised by the fates ("He's had a rough week. Let him see that movie with that girl before we give him that horrible disease next week...") is to me, the closest we can get to pleasing the gods on a-daily basis. In a way, in a tiny little I-want-to-see- this-movie-with-this-person-at-this- theater-at-this-time (7 or 10) way... I am God. And next I intend to live forever. (Think about it... I haven't died yet. So who's to say, huh? Maybe I'm the guy who's going to never die! No proof to the contrary, right?) So X, I implore you to commit to this win-win-well if I lose I was losing anyway-situation, and get out of that tub, put down that razor, and go see a zombie horror flick with me tomorrow! If you say no, I will use my god-like powers to raise the dead and send their resurrected corpses over to your house, where they will sing barbershop quartet a-capella ALL NIGHT! Think of how embarassing that would be! Think of what the neighbors would say! Think girl, think! And then let me take you to the movies! ("Gee, that Y person sure seems to want to take that X girl to the movies. I mean, if all that crazy shit doesn't convince her, then I guess nothing will. Maybe we should wait another week before giving him that terrible disease... nah, that'll just give him time to see the movie with somebody else. Although he won't see it with someone else...of course I know that, I mean, shit, I'm Fate.") I await your reply. RE: re: regarding Y, i'm sorry if i offended you when I saw you tonight. i dont want you to think i'm some colossal bitch, but if you do, you have every right. X Subject: Sigh... No more X e-mail? RE: Sigh... oh shut up Y!! i think its thoroughly impossible to ignore you! besides, i havent emailed anyone this week. how are you doing? i'm ok, i start my pseudo-vacation this week, that is, several days of confusion and probably nothing spectacular. i am going somewhere with sister and mom, and that will be fun, but i would also like to have a vacation around people my own age. so maybe i'll head up to dc. i'm out of things to say. X Subject: Impossible to ignore Impossible to ignore. Who knows if that was meant as an insult, or a compliment, or as a frustrated venting of conflicting emotions... but good or bad, I'll accept that. I am thoroughly impossible to ignore. I had no idea you have a sister. It seems that this computer here at work once again has a DVD encoder on it. So after a week of trying to entertain myself through various methods and different... uh... well, really only by the electronic pestering of X, I can now finally settle back and let others entertain me. I do occasionally get mad at movies. They can just be such wastes of time, energy and effort for the people watching them. But it occurs to me... if making movies professionally is comparable at all to making them independently with volunteers in say, Blacksburg (i.e. unprofessionally), and even having said that, I KNOW the stress can be a million times greater due to the pressure and astronomical amounts of money involved... well shit. Everytime you watch a movie you are essentially paying small amounts to be entertained by the enormous amounts of tension, soul-crushing and insanely crashing dreams of everyone involved in the making of film, and every deadline and tight budget and fired assistant directors is now simply grist for the mill of our entertainment. Its like everytime you're watching a movie, you are an aristocratic Roman at the film-making gladiator arena. Other people's hard work, crushed hopes, and occasional genuine misery is all just to amuse some dumbass at his nightjob in Virginia. That is so cool! Except I can't give the go-ahead for somebody to be executed at the end of a movie. Like that jagoff who directed the Rush Hour flicks. Thumb out! Cut off his head! I wonder how many gladiators got killed because they could have sworn they saw the emporer's thumb... Uh... enjoy your vacation. And enjoy your psuedo vacation as well. Its a vacation as long as you feel you're vacating something. Anything, really. Even when you've got nothing to say, drop me a line. You might think of something while you're typing. Like, "Y, your overwhelming charm is impossible to ignore," or, "Y, never talk to me again." Or even "Y, your overwhelming charm is impossible to ignore. Never talk to me again." Cheers, P.S. I never did get to see that movie. Post it, call Shakespeare, and don't forget to tell people how to get in touch with us. |