gummo and stuff

Enzo just crawled into a box again, he is so funny. Sometimes he is such a kitten still, he crawled on my lap today and started hypnotizing me with his super lovey eyes and purring. When panther does it it's more elegant and mature, but he is such a little kitten still.

That's not what I wanted to write about today.

I just watched Gummo for the first time. Well, I have to say it was just my kind of movie.

I think there are separate levels on which I enjoyed Gummo. First of all, everything desolate and pointless, life-is-meaningless depressing waste of space, boredom and apathy: those kind of themes are my obsessions. What's the point of making a film about happiness, when it's pretty obvious that life is completely as dull and pathetic as the lives of the feral cats that the boys hunt in Gummo.

Secondly, Solomon is the perfect anti-hero. He definitely doesn't look like any other kid in the world.

I like how every character in this movie looks very bizarre physically. The sisters have bleached hair and eye brows, and then this other character shaves her eyebrows off. It instantly made me want to shave mine off, to look like an alien. I might do it in the summer just for the hell of it.

I love the bunny boy. Actually, when I was downloading Gummo I came across "Bunny Gamer" by Xiu Xiu and the bunny boy should always have Bunny Gamer playing as the soundtrack to his persona.

Gummo is like the ultimate white trash portrayal and as you may know, I am completely fascinated and obsessed with the idea of white trash and anything remotely related to it. I find it the best cure for the dullness of the real world- to fight with more dullness of the real world I guess? I don't know.

I didn't even like the movie Kids, I see why it has a cult following but it just wasn't my thing, I think it was too structured for me, or maybe the themes were too obviously stated, or I don't know... I like the lack of plots and linear structure. I like movies that have no linear structure and that could have been any days in the lives of those characters. In a way Kids is like that, but I feel like it has a  definite beginning and end, whereas Gummo or Ken Park don't.

Also watched The Holy Mountain recently.

I really liked the first half of the film, and the ending. I loved the story of "Jesus", everything from the toad circus to how he got drunk and they made statues from him, and how he carried Jesus around and ate its face. How he met the Alchemist and did a shit in a glass jar and they made gold out of it, and how the other characters were introduced. Once they started searching/going to the mountain my interest just fell completely. I do love the ending though, that was genius. But the main plot line just wasn't that good.. I mean if the guy can film all these beautiful scenes about nothing, why can't he have done the same with the plot? It just blends in visually and after all that eye-candy in the beginning, the actual plot is dull. I still really enjoyed it, but I would rather have no actual plot to search for the mountain, just more randomness and strangeness.

What else has been going on? I am obsessing over Xiu Xiu and wrote a script for two songs for a video project.

It's been pretty warm out recently so I am wearing shorts.

I pretended to play the cello at Alex's house last night.

Almond vegan cheese is so incredibly tasty!

I made a webcam video about strange things and I remember I was telling someone about it last night, but totally forgot who. Oh wellsz.

Oh saw this guy play last night at the former BabeRage house. Amazing I was so impressed. And of course, Teaadora was as beautiful and lovely and amazing as ever.