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1. 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.
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Date: 2020-06-09 06:42 pm (UTC)From:You're welcome! I thought I actually owned a copy of that cover, but I only seem to have Universal Hall Pass.
Never finished it because I was having trouble trying to convey what I wanted to convey, i.e. a ghost story in which the protagonist’s problem is that his friends listen sympathetically, but keep treating the haunting as some kind of metaphor, without it being a simple case of disbelieving him or saying that it’s all in his head—i.e. they can accept supernatural events, but they still try to interpret them as having some symbolic meaning rather than just being what they are.
Let me know if you ever do finish it, because it sounds great.