Food Critics vs. Movie Critics

[thisnewday]

A few nights ago, I decided to do dinner and a movie every evening for as long as I'm able. Which means, I guess, for as long as I'm able to choke down the low-sodium, pureed crap that passes for dinner and for as long as I have unopened DVDs standing on the shelves of the pre-Civil War barrister's bookcase which I inherited from my father.

Because, what else am I gonna do with them? Helen shows up only occasionally, these days, and I've saved the last season of Treme to watch with her--in case she decides to hang around longer than the next smokey dream.

Tonight, I watched Val Kilmer in The Salton Sea. He's a trumpet-playing tweaker who's caught between two identities--the avenging angel and the... well, you should watch it. It was not well-reviewed, but f*ck the damn critics. It's extraordinarily vivid, fragmented like a tweaker's life, but still has a story line. Which is all I require, most of the time.

Have also watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, an Unfinished Life--also not well-reviewed, and several Nora Ephrons. Again, f*ck the critics.

I should also add that dinner has been made more bearable by the addition of some Dinosaur Barbecue Slathering Sauce which was originally made at a biker's bar in downtown Syracuse but is now marketed regionally, I think.

I'm sure any self-respecting food critic would provide a much less favorable take on my concoction and--unlike the movie critics--we should definitely listen to them, lol...

LPK
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8.1.2019 

Comments

[rosegardenfae]

I barely remember the "Salton Sea" as it has been a long time since I watched it, but my thoughts are that I liked it. Have "Grand Budapest Hotel" in a queue on Amazon, but haven't seen it yet, maybe soon. Am immersed in "Love and Ruin" and have a memoir by Gellhorn plus a Gellhorn bio calling to me.

Hope you get back to real food soon.

[thisnewday]

Dang, E, you've got some good stuff going on with the books. I'm finding it a hard slog, once again, with Ms. Woolf--even the bio--but I'm pretty sure it's as much me as it is the books. Can you give me titles and author on the Gellhorn books, please?

[rosegardenfae]

"Love and Ruin" by Paula McClain
"Travels with Myself and Another" by Martha Gellhorn
"Gellhorn, A Twentieth Century Life" by Caroline Moorehead

Woolfe has always been a reading challenge for me though I've read all her books. So far, am fascinated with Love and Ruin. Not sure if it's because I want to be her or am dreaming of screwing Hemingway. Lol

[thisnewday]

Thanks! You know, Woolf is definitely a challenge and this bio actually gave me an insight as to why. It has to do with how she conceives of us as being individuals who are part of a social whole--and so her "stream of consciousness" moves from one point of view to another, sometimes with little or no notice. Good to know, but still confusing to the reader.

I do envy you that you did your college at a time when women's studies were coming on line, whereas I missed that. And so, with my enfeebled intellect, I'm trying to sort of catch up.

Anyway, I'm working on it. And good luck with screwing Hemingway. I'd try it with Gellhorn, but I'm pretty sure she'd slap the snot out of me, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

I imagine that Virginia's mental instability gave her a point of view unlike her readers.

Undoubtedly women's studies opened me up to a different viewpoint than I had from the one I garnered being brought up in the 50's. Won't be hard for you to catch up, being a sensitive romantic guy. ;-)

Lol @ being slapped by Gellhorn. She certainly slapped Hem often enough. And, as the only way way I'm getting screwed is in my dreams might as well give Ernest a try. I don't think, however, he'll be better than Bob Marley. Lol