Sweet, Sweet Terry Gilliam :: Part II

An ideal movie night...

  1) Viewing the inventive film,

     The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ...
  2) while indulging in a delicious "Coffee Nip" martini ...

  3) at the historic Mayan Theater in Denver.

and to top it all off, the movie did not disappoint!

go see it...

The End

confession

so, yeah...
in the spirit of full disclosure... i totally stole "so, yeah... " from eddie izzard.
The End.

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Sweet, Sweet Terry Gilliam :: Part I

So, yeah...  I've been thinking about my artistic influences lately.  Last night, I decided to google Sweet, Sweet Terry Gilliam -- a major influence on me and my artwork. 

I discovered that his film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is now in theaters.  I realized that I had a foggy recollection of this film coming our way because of the reports of Heath Ledger's death... this was his last project.  While artfully dodging finding out about the film's plot (I like to know as little as possible about the plot when seeing a Gilliam film for the first time... so I can just enjoy the ride), I read a bit.  I found this interesting:  through a mechanism already in place in the film -- a magic mirror -- Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were able to complete the film by playing alternate versions of Ledger's character.

Ledger's absence aside, the trailer indicates that this film is deliciously and completely classic Gilliam!  Imagination and visual texture galore!  Even the animation on the film's website harkens back to his Monty Python days!

Unfortunately, it is in limited release... so it is not showing (at the moment) here in Colorado Springs.  I will keep an eye on Kimball's to see if they will be showing it... but, in the meantime I am planning on driving to Denver next weekend...

The end. 

Blanca Baby

so, yeah... it's weird to pay someone to take a life.  On January 14th I had to take my cat, Blanca, to be euthanized.  It was a brutal thing for me to go through... but it was the right thing to do for her sake.  She was old.  And I swore to myself that I would do it as soon as she showed signs of pain.  On the morning of the 14th, it was undeniable that she was in some serious pain. 

       

I picked up her ashes the following Monday. 

When I step back from the whole experience and observe it clinically, it's an odd thing to do... "I will give you money if you will kill this living thing"... and then, "Please also burn the remains to ashes and return them to me...  I will pay you extra money."  And, without any water in the cells, when they are turned to ashes, they weigh hardly anything at all.  The whole thing is just weird.

I miss her terribly... but, I pray that when it is blood instead of poo coming out of me that someone will have the courage to euthanize me.  And they don't have to request ashes... the body?  yeah, I'll be done with that...

Said Rebecca.

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