weekends are such interesting things. they’re there simultaneously to allow enjoy yourself and to sleep, except those two things are often at odds and you end up feeling guilty choosing one over the other EVEN IF by SLEEPING you manage to ENJOY YOURSELF.
yes. weekends are strange. this weekend i’ve spent more time than usual with the ben, appropriately tho accidentally because today is our one-year-and-three-quarters-of-what. we sat next to each other at harry potter 2: actually better than you expect friday and othello: not shakespeare’s finest last night w/ ben’s english class. i saw a terrific production of othello: inverted a couple years ago at the shakespeare theater in dc. patrick stewart played the tortured moor as the only white man in a black cast. that blew me away. this one just … well, you know. it was ordinary.
hp2, while ordinary in some respects — still-too long; still-directed by christopher columbus (motto:”who needs instincts when you can mimic steven spielberg”); and still-scored by john williams (motto: “here, let me hit you over the head. now cry!”) — is better than the first one and largely enjoyable. in parts it’s scary, in parts it’s clever, and it keeps you absorbed. sadly it leaves out my favorite line from the book: “never trust anything that thinks for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” but it does make the character of lockhart much more appealing than the book does. thanks, branagh.
so one-year-and-three-quarters … 21 months … feels like a rather substantial time to spend with one person. well, i’m impressed. on one hand, we’re both stubborn and opinionated, we both like to be right, and in our respective ways, we both want to be known. on the other, we’re music v. movies, djing v. dancing, dancing v. watching, all lines v. all curves, serious v. sarcastic, widespread v. tightknit, self-possessed v. self-conscious, masculinity issues v. femininity issues, ego v. ego. somehow, through copenhagen, swarthmore, philly, new york, san francisco, dc, and the never never land of the world wide web, we’ve managed to make this work.