heatherbeck

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Added 2020-09-05 21:58:23 +0000 UTC

I don’t know why, but I’ve watched “The Shining” like, literally five times during This Modern Age. It’s always been one of my favorite movies, but it wasn’t until viewing number four or so that I realized that it’s actually a really good quarantine movie. I don’t think I’m being haunted by any sort of supernatural representations of my own demons and regrets. It just kind of fills a hole. And we all need a Lloyd in our lives. (“I’ve got two 20s and two 10s. Thought they were going to be in my wallet till May!”)

On brain droppings slightly related to Stanley Kubrick… I read an article, I’m not sure where… Some professional writer who does essays for the big boys. He was working on some large-scale project, and said that for about a year, he watched the movie “Eyes Wide Shut” every day. For a year. It wasn’t intentional. He wasn’t trying to set any record or anything.

I can kind of get behind such an idea. For him, visiting the same movie, even if it was just playing in the background, every day, centered him. It brought some stability. Almost like an old friend, but committed to celluloid. Something anchored when his brain was all over the place.

I’ve been trying to experiment with that idea. I wonder if there is a movie that I could just “have on” in the background every day for a year. Something that I eventually wouldn’t have to pay attention to. It’s just there, like talking wallpaper. But also like a kind of beacon.

Anyway, none of that has anything to do with this picture, which is just something old that for some reason, I never posted. It’s fun, so it might as well have a home.

Silly me, sometimes my brain gets so kerfuffled, that I put the bra on the outside. No wonder I get some weird(er) looks.