“The plural of anecdote is not data”.
This person has collected over 600 music videos for download. I’m impressed. I love music videos, they’re snapshot glimpses into a beautiful world where music threads everything into a narrative, sometimes surreal, preferably pretty, in dastardly ways. Andrew and I went to see Oldboy last night and it was like that. Not for everyone, but perfect for me. Serrated humour. Sweet brutality. The undertones of making me cringe. I cried out Marry Me to the main character after he made me wince in spite of my jade blood. Have you ever seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance? It’s similar. I want this in my home. A man is captured off the street, framed for his wife’s murder and put into a hotel reminiscent prison room for fifteen years. There’s a television, but that’s his only contact with the world until one day he wakes in a box on a grassy roof. He’s dressed in a sharp black suit and cannot see for the sunlight. From there he’s given the task of finding out who put him there and the why behind it. I can’t believe some of the angles, some of the framing. I want to find the director and pledge my youth to him. A year for every ounce of brilliance you download into my brain. Another year of lasting life from mine for every tricky skill you give me.
Imperative viewing if things like this make you happy: Headless Robot Zombie Science Flies.
Today I can’t remember if I have plans this evening. I can’t recall shaping words which would have defined my Saturday Night. There’s no sun today, only fake television light. Everything is lit from an unseen source. I woke next to me love this morning, and I could feel the smile blossom under my skin when I came aware enough to know the body next to me was a separate thing. We held hands in the dark until the sun came to wake us. Seven o’clock fall in, fall back and down forever.
edit: I’m told apparently that Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy are actually made by the same director, (which somehow justifies my ridiculous brain in some obscure way). Apparently he’s making a revenge themed trilogy and those are the first two films. The third is to be called Lady Vengeance. This to me seems a bit odd, as there was no-one left alive in the first movie to continue to a sequel. They killed everyone.