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[fflo]

E. stopped by Sat. night, though I was still sick, bringing dinner (I had been planning to cook for us). We watched Lost in La Mancha---a disappointment, but I suppose it's hard for a documentary about a film project petering out not to have its own feeling of petering out. I do think I would have liked the Quixote that Gilliam was working on, though. And you diehard Johnny Depp fans might even like this piece, though he's not in it a tremendous amount, just cuz he's himself. See what he looked like here:


with Terry G., who's got that great hat


looking sly, with streaks in his hair


smoking SOMEthin'

It was good to hang with E. Hadn't seen her in a while.

Then last night E. happened to be in town. (Different E.---atleastdefiant, actually.) She came by and hung out and crashed and went to breakfast with me before my short work day today. Work held interesting news (to break next week)---a mixed bag, but overall good, I guess---you take what you can get. And then after work I went to begin to deal with the car insurance situation. Maybe more about that later in a protected entry. Suffice to say, I deserve kudos, and I'm still going out of my way to be nice to the woman.

Now I'm off work for a while. Hallelujah, you should pardon my sacrilege, it's good.

Comments

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I thought LiLM was pretty good, and pretty sad for poor Terry. his LaMancha would've been awesome, it's too bad we'll never see it.

And that scene where the water is washing the equipment away?
Crushing!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yeah---that's when you start thinking not just that they had bad luck but that they had mind-bogglingly bad luck. And poor Jean Rochefort, getting on that horse so gingerly, as he lowers his weight onto those infected testicles! (Sorry, any fellas I just made cringe.)

After the carnival-like opening, and the storyboard pix and readings and then that huge puppet stuff, I was definitely sorry the movie didn't get made. Unfortunately, after the flood and the disappearance of Quixote, the documentary didn't have much but shots of Gilliam looking sad, rather drawn-out debates whose conclusion we already knew, and people packing up boxes. Thus its dramatic arc peaked kinda early, you know?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

yeah, I can see that.

The big, running guys were funny though...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah---they were great. I'm just a little bit in love with the main monster guy, the young one in the middle with the convoluted forehead.

So I dreamed about the work news...

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

I did. Scary, that. So my prediction is that Bosslady is moving on, and someone else is moving into that position. (I dreamed, actually, that PDM is taking that slot. Along with other weirdnessess which I won't inflict upon you.) I won't ask if my dreams are true, only recording them here.

Re: So I dreamed about the work news...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! Well I know you're not asking, but---as far as I know---nothing that dramatic is going on! Didn't mean to bother your subconscious, T.

[groovesinorbit]

I've been wanting to see Lost in La Mancha. Still might, just cuz of those Depp stills you posted. Yum.

Kudos to you!