Uses of Procrastination
Jul. 28th, 2003 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseI'm having a lot of trouble moving forward on the illustrations for the Passover book. The illustration part is the real reason I'm excited about the book. It's been a while since I've made pictures for public consumption and I've set the bar pretty high for myself. The result? Paralyzing fear of drawing despite a looming deadline. The unexpected bonus? I'm the perfect husband! I just couldn't stop fixing the house this weekend -- replacing window casings, stripping paint, fixing sticky lock, putting in trim in the laundry room preparatory to painting.
Psychologically, this kind of displacement is a vast improvement over other forms of procrastination such as watching a lot of mindless television. Furthermore, I feel the graphics bubbling under the surface, so I know that I'm also subconsciously preparing the drawing process. And that excuse will work for a few more days yet.
Movie Warning:
Do not rent May. I picked up this indie horror flick because press reports compared it to Donnie Darko, a film that freaked out distributors and thus went straight to video. Donnie Darko is one of the best movies I saw last year -- a bizarre combination of horror, time-paradox science fiction and consumer parody with a briliant script, excellent acting and sure sense of where it was going. May, in contrast, is weird with no redeeming value whatsoever. It is someone doing "weird" because "that would be kinda weird, man". The director, "Lucky McKee" (give me a break), seems to know nothing about real human motivation. There is no appeal in the titular character and we cannot relate to her pain which is simultaneously cliched and incomprehensible. There is no suspense and the gore is preposterous -- neither chilling nor over-the-top.
The only thing to recommend this flick is James Duval who plays the cutest darn punk I've ever seen and is so sweetly hot when he removes his shirt. But his 5 minutes is not worth the torture of the rest. If anyone can find pics of him in the movie, let me know. Dammit that you can't do screen captures from a DVD!
Psychologically, this kind of displacement is a vast improvement over other forms of procrastination such as watching a lot of mindless television. Furthermore, I feel the graphics bubbling under the surface, so I know that I'm also subconsciously preparing the drawing process. And that excuse will work for a few more days yet.
Movie Warning:
Do not rent May. I picked up this indie horror flick because press reports compared it to Donnie Darko, a film that freaked out distributors and thus went straight to video. Donnie Darko is one of the best movies I saw last year -- a bizarre combination of horror, time-paradox science fiction and consumer parody with a briliant script, excellent acting and sure sense of where it was going. May, in contrast, is weird with no redeeming value whatsoever. It is someone doing "weird" because "that would be kinda weird, man". The director, "Lucky McKee" (give me a break), seems to know nothing about real human motivation. There is no appeal in the titular character and we cannot relate to her pain which is simultaneously cliched and incomprehensible. There is no suspense and the gore is preposterous -- neither chilling nor over-the-top.
The only thing to recommend this flick is James Duval who plays the cutest darn punk I've ever seen and is so sweetly hot when he removes his shirt. But his 5 minutes is not worth the torture of the rest. If anyone can find pics of him in the movie, let me know. Dammit that you can't do screen captures from a DVD!
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Date: 2003-07-28 04:07 pm (UTC)If you haven't heard of it, or seen it, Series 7 is excellent, and might be best described as a cross between The Lottery and Running Man (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093894). (Neither of which I actually enjoy very much...)