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Weekend/ Monday and Tuesday Report
Jun. 9th, 2020 01:49 pm1. Beatrice let me scratch her ears on the weekend; she still only lets me pet her if Nana’s nearby as a reassuring presence, but given that two-and-a-half months ago she was hissing and running away if any humans approached, this is pretty good news.
2. Today’s puzzle on the jigsaw-puzzle app was of the painting Watson and the Shark – not sure which of the extant versions, but I googled it after I got to work and read Elizabeth McCracken’s account of her feelings for the version in the Boston MFA.
3. The wasps are back; the really tall Orkin Man came and sprayed for them again.
4. I looked up some of the cast of HBO’s The Outsider, and now I’ve watched Derek Cecil in the first episode of the short-lived Push, Nevada (2002) which is… certainly something.
It’s not even so much a knock-off as a parody of Twin Peaks, everyone delivering neo-noir dialogue with a weird lack of affect. It’s like one of the Kids In the Halls bits that blurs the line between comedy sketch and impenetrable art film (Cecil’s character would have been played by Mark McKinney). I can’t even tell if I loved or hated it. I kept having to stop every couple of scenes to just process how weird it felt, and I thought I was pretty used to weirdness. That the copy up on YouTube is a flickery, low-quality transfer just adds to the vibe.
Also, I need to know who recorded that rock cover of ‘Ring of Fire’ that plays at the end of the episode.
2. Today’s puzzle on the jigsaw-puzzle app was of the painting Watson and the Shark – not sure which of the extant versions, but I googled it after I got to work and read Elizabeth McCracken’s account of her feelings for the version in the Boston MFA.
3. The wasps are back; the really tall Orkin Man came and sprayed for them again.
4. I looked up some of the cast of HBO’s The Outsider, and now I’ve watched Derek Cecil in the first episode of the short-lived Push, Nevada (2002) which is… certainly something.
It’s not even so much a knock-off as a parody of Twin Peaks, everyone delivering neo-noir dialogue with a weird lack of affect. It’s like one of the Kids In the Halls bits that blurs the line between comedy sketch and impenetrable art film (Cecil’s character would have been played by Mark McKinney). I can’t even tell if I loved or hated it. I kept having to stop every couple of scenes to just process how weird it felt, and I thought I was pretty used to weirdness. That the copy up on YouTube is a flickery, low-quality transfer just adds to the vibe.
Also, I need to know who recorded that rock cover of ‘Ring of Fire’ that plays at the end of the episode.
