rewatch pride & prejudice (2005 or 1995, your pick)
take a long shower & shave legs
stare at face in mirror for a long time, reflect on changes that have occured in past year
sara bareilles cd on repeat
“deep mystery”
lying on the floor listening to music you liked fifteen years ago
watch dust motes travel across the room in the late afternoon haze
what would be different about my life if i had been a cheerleader in high school?
what was the title of that book you read in the fourth grade? you only remember the main character’s name and nothing about the plot. you spend the next three hours googling and then you drop $60 for a first edition on ebay
cup of tea, then another
are you there god?
“efficiency”
take out five boxes of paperwork from the closet and spend the next three hours making small piles around your body on the floor
write first chapter of novel
cover wall in post it notes
lists lists lists
highlight everything
now’s a good time to start that bullet journal
must empty email inbox
plan out next five years of life down to the month, week, day
“shake it up”
blast nsync while scrubbing out microwave
rearrange living room four different ways
today’s a good day to repaint your bedroom
let’s research and plan a trip to san francisco
develop new fashion style, must throw away all items of clothes that don’t work with it
Shout out to my Arabic teacher that looked at us yesterday mid-lesson and said, “I’m worried. You all look exhausted and depressed.”
Of we were all like, “Oh yeah we’re dead inside, you haven’t noticed?”
And he snapped shut the textbook, threw up his hands and said, “That’s not healthy! No more vocab! Time for dancing!”
And he taught us a dance from Iraq and we danced instead of doing vocab. We didn’t stop dancing until he saw all of us laughing and was satisfied that we were all feeling better. It was perhaps the coolest, most kind-hearted thing I’ve ever seen a college instructor do.
Yesterday I had a conversation with a co-worker about media awards like the Oscars and Emmys and such, and I said I thought they were dreadful – I hate this weird bloated self-congratulatory masturbation that goes on for months, and I haven’t watched any since grad school when I was required to for costuming class. And she said something revolutionary, which was, “Yeah, but they’re so much fun to hate. I never miss one.”
And I thought to myself, I do love to hate stuff now even more than when I was in grad school! And so I googled “awards season” and found a Wiki list of all the film awards shows, and thought, maybe I’ll try watching this year.
So I’m researching when and on what channel they happen so that I can put some on my calendar, and so far I have come across several amazing things:
The New York Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics each have an award show and I hope there’s a Tupac-Biggie level beef behind that
Relatedly, I have suggested they should meet in Indiana and fight, and the winner gets to keep their awards show
The Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t actually want you to watch it, because if they did, they would put WHERE IT AIRS ON THEIR MOTHERFUCKING WEBSITE. I thought I wasn’t cool enough to know, but then I realized no. I’m too cool to know when the Hollywood fucking Film Awards air.
The National Board of Review Awards claims to be “among the first of the awards season” even though it happens in January. I guess because they announce the winners in November?
New York Film Critics Circle does the exact same thing. I knew the entertainment industry was insane but this is byzantine levels of temporal manipulation. I think they might all be time travelers.
The National Society of Film Critics keep it loose and casual and is not convincing me that film critics aren’t basically humorless creeps: “Any film that opens in the U.S. during the year 2018 is eligible for consideration. There is no nomination process; submissions are not necessary.
Scrolls suitable for framing are sent to the winners. There is no awards party.”
Meanwhile the Critics’ Choice Awards are at 7pm on the Monday night after the Sunday when the Golden Globes airs. Really shooting for the moon there, CCA.
There is a single woman coordinating all ticketing for the Producer’s Guild of America awards. I’m guessing they will not be televised.
Is it better not to have your awards ceremony televised at all or only to have it televised on TNT? Discuss.
And finally,
“Awards Season” is a registered trademark
I am already enjoying how much I hate this!
I don’t usually watch the Oscars, but I recall how when I was
an adolescent everyone dissed the intro one year for being especially cheesy
and ridiculous, and the producer, Allan Carr, lost his career over it; and more
recently I looked it up and Carr had apparently wanted to recreate the feel of
a 1930s musical revue, and concocted a show in which Disney’s Snow White
arrives in Hollywood and asks for directions to the Coconut Grove from a cowboy
doing tricks with a lariat, and believe me that is EXACTLY what actual 1930s
revues were like, the only way it could have been more period-accurate would be
if they’d thrown in a musical number that was equal parts jaw-droppingly
surreal and jaw-droppingly racist, so what I’m saying is that the 1989 Oscars
opening show was a victim of its own success and people’s belief that Top Hat was a typical 1930s musical
instead of an outlier.
Hey, Anon who sent me the ask about AO3 discourse, I did get it and I had a complicated reaction to it, but I decided against posting it with my response because I’m not sure some people who share your reaction share some what you said surrounding your reaction, and if I respond publicly they kind of become my views because I gave you the platform? I realize this is very vague but ultimately I guess it boils down to me being uncomfortable posting your ask publicly. And since it’s Anon…
Anyway, I have a complex relationship to AO3 and I have spent a long few minutes trying to write about the fundraising discussion from the point of view of someone who has worked in the nonprofit world all his adult life, because a lot of the accusations being flung at AO3 surrounding its fundraising are so familiar to us as to be boring and tired (you can read up on the basics of the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle here). But I can’t…work out a good way to articulate it as a defense of AO3 without also discussing other aspects of AO3 that can’t be talked about in the specific but sound wrong and evasive when talked about in the general.
So I guess in the most abstract sense, I am for AO3 and AO3′s mission both as a nonprofit employee and as a writer; particularly coming from the nonprofit sector, the arguments against AO3′s fundraising are laughably tired and generally the realm of people who are just selfish fucks who don’t want to give; and finally, I can’t talk about the rest of it without getting into stories that aren’t mine to tell and would be detrimental and derailing to the discussion as a whole but which are still vital for me to express if I wanted to talk about AO3′s history.
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
lesbians look good in literally every possible conceivable outfit. even if an outfit is the lamest shit ever, if you put it on a lesbian it’s automatically cool…. i dont know how or why that works, but it does.
Given that the classic 1920s lesbian look was tweeds, lipstick
and a monocle?…. yeah this is pretty much true.
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