Snapshots from Saturday’s Party

It was in Brooklyn. I was there for four hours. In that four hours, I had in-depth hilarious awesome conversations with many different people, some I know well, others I was meeting for the first time. I love going to a place where I feel like I’m with “my tribe”, whether or not we have already met.

Topics discussed:

— Bette Davis. I told Dan I had just watched Jezebel and he said, “I could perform the entire movie for you right now.” We then re-enacted this scene.

— We watched this entire movie, and deconstructed it as though it was Dostoevsky.

One shot of the cat drinking milk. Andrew said, “You actually shouldn’t give milk to cats.” Very important critical point. When they made the cat’s mouth move, it made me feel very uncomfortable. It was on in the background at the party, and while we tried to discuss other things, we kept being drawn into the black hole. Eric Roberts does the voice of the talking cat. Or … Talking Cat!?! I was remembering Johnny Whittaker (the lead) from his stint on Family Affair when he was a kid. I looked him up on IMDB and shared the results.

— whether or not “Back Door Man” was a metaphor for anal sex. A Wikipedia search was involved. It is NOT a metaphor for said sexual activity, although we all agreed that the metaphor is meant to be multi-layer.

— William Wyler. More specifically, The Best Years of Our Lives.

— Teri Garr’s appearance on Star Trek. I do not remember that episode, but it was explained to me in vivid detail.

— Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus. The “bloodiest” of Shakespeare’s plays. Me: “Yeah, that girl is raped offstage and has her tongue cut out and her hands cut off … she has to draw with sticks in the sand the names of her attackers. Jeez. Gross.”

— Alexander Hamilton. I was in my glory. I talked to a guy who had been a NYC tour guide and he told me all about Hamilton House and how it had been moved three times, and I can’t believe I’ve never visited.

— Amy Heckerling’s awesomeness

— Philip Roth

— Kurt told me about the One Direction movie and how much he liked it. I don’t know much about those guys, so I got a crash course.

— We talked about John Cassavetes and we talked about Repo Man.

— “When I was a NYC tour guide, I worked with a retired cop who was also a tour guide and he said, ‘Do you know what cop show is the most accurate about what it’s like to be a New York cop?’ So I’m thinking, ‘NYPD Blue’ or something, and he said, ‘Barney Miller, because most of the job is paperwork and bullshitting.'”

— Dan: “I think he’s talented, it’s just that he uses his talent for evil.”
Keith: “I mean … how can I even argue with that statement?”