{"id":36054,"date":"2011-04-07T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=36054"},"modified":"2016-07-18T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:16:19","slug":"snapshots-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=36054","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"

— I have a scratch on my eyeball. I am now taking steroid eye-drops and have to wear an eyepatch. Naturally, this is the press screening month for Tribeca Film Festival so I am now watching up to 2 movies a day (sometimes 4), and I look like this.<\/p>\n

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I fell UP the stairs at the Tribeca Theatre, wiping OUT at the feet of the security guard. Cut me some slack, I got a bum eye. I was talking to my brother and he said, “You should say to the Tribeca people, ‘I only review movies that are rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.'”<\/p>\n

— Re-reading A Cinema of Loneliness<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, one of the most essential books in my film library. I never get sick of dipping into it. An examination of 6 American filmmakers: Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Altman, he makes comparisons that expand my own understanding, and his focus on HOW movies are put together is a wonderful antidote to all of my actor-centric books. He stays away from the acting, pretty much. He is interested in form and content. (On a side note: I appreciate the startling fact that he uses “she” instead of “he”, when speaking of the generalized viewer. “The viewer then feels that she is drawn into another world …” “What this gives the viewer is a sense of her own blah blah blah …” He certainly doesn’t assume that all movie viewers are women, and “she” is just as exclusive as “he”, when used in this context, but the preponderance of language has gone the other way – it is just ASSUMED that “he” also includes “she”, and personally I resent that. In general, I prefer “he” to the awkward “he or she” – but you don’t realize how exclusionary the language actually is until an entire book goes in the other direction. And to those men who say things like, “Come on – MANKIND obviously includes women too …” please try to put the shoe on the other foot, and imagine that the standard of language is to say “All womankind”. Please try to picture that every single press release\/pamphlet\/textbook uses “she” instead of “he” and try to imagine for a second the overall lifelong effect that that has. Imagine Neil Armstrong standing on the moon and saying, “One giant leap for womankind.” Sounds RIDICULOUS, right? What about the MEN? Only WOMEN experience the moon landing as a giant leap? Ridiculous. My point, exactly. Language matters. Language is powerful. And privilege is invisible, mostly, until you are confronted with its opposite. So it’s nice to be included. Language is imperfect, and one of the most imperfect things about it is that we do not have a proper term that includes all of us in one word. So. Kolker deciding to go with “she” is revelatory to me, and I thank him for it, among other things. This is a great book.) <\/p>\n

— I start a new freelance gig next week which hopefully will be a lot of fun. <\/p>\n

— Seen a lot of good stuff at Tribeca so far. Seen some mediocre things too – but saw at least one gem. I’ll be busy writing reviews over the next couple of weeks, I am already a week behind in all of my writing … but I’ll catch up. <\/p>\n

— Found myself researching Paddy Ryan yesterday, and one thing led to another and an hour of my life was lost, following Google links about bare-knuckle boxers. This was for yet another freelance gig I’m doing right now, so it was actually work – but it was one of those moments where an entire world you had never been aware of suddenly opens up before you. I love research for that reason.<\/p>\n

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— Jean, Pat, Lucy and William are coming down this weekend and will be staying with me. I haven’t seen my niece and nephew in a couple of months- it is ridiculous – I might as well live 1000 miles away. I’ve just been buried in freelance stuff. Ugh! So I can’t wait to see them, even though it will be brief. I have 6 movies to see this weekend.<\/p>\n

— I don’t know, do you think my cat Hope is comfortable with me and relaxed in my presence?<\/p>\n

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— My friend Allison, after being away for a year, is moving back to New York City. I can’t believe it. I basically refused to admit she was gone, for this entire year. I’m almost nervous for her return. We’re great friends. <\/p>\n

— Found an old picture in a shoebox that brought back an entire time. My friend Brett (who just died) was in an internship at a theatre in Massachusetts, and so was Liz – so a bunch of us drove there in a wild caravan to see the shows they were doing and hang out. The caravan was made up of Brooke and her boyfriend and me and Antonio (who eventually would be my boyfriend, but wasn’t yet at the time). We had one of those weekends with so much laughter that you are amazed that someone doesn’t pass out. Dumb jokes. We saw, like, 3 plays, I think, including a Kabuki workshop production of The Oresteia. We all slept in the same bed. We had pizza. I made Brooke laugh so hard on the car ride there that I heard a whole OTHER sound come out of her mouth. I know Brooke’s laugh, I know what it sounds like – but she went to another level<\/i> in that car ride. And I honestly can’t describe why we laughed so hard although we both remember what triggered it … So I was digging through a shoebox and pulled out this photo. Struck by Brett in the front row on the right. My hand on his shoulder. It is still unbelievable to us that he is gone.<\/p>\n

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\nBack row: Brooke, Me, Jim
\nFront row: Antonio, Brett<\/p>\n

— Hopefully, my pirate-stage of life will be over soon. I saw the doctor yesterday and he said my eye is nearly completely healed. Those steroids work quick, man. On Sunday and Monday, my eye was irritated so badly that it was completely closed with tears constantly streaming down my face for the entire day. I could FEEL the scratch. As a joke, I wrote on Facebook: “One day of steroids and my eye feels so much better. Of course I am now suffering from ‘roid rage as a result of my 4 hours being on these meds, so I am blasting Marilyn Manson at the moment to take the edge off.” My friend Noonz replied:<\/p>\n

The eyepatch. The steroids. The hypothetical Marilyn Manson trigger event. You’re this far from realizing some sort of comic book origin story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still laughing about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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