Inside Deep Throat

No, sorry to disappoint, but this is not going to be a full-blown account of my recent, uhm, activities. Too bad. If you are looking for smut though, I have just heard that there's an obscene amount of Gil Grissom slash flying around on the net...

Okay, to come to the point, I have seen ridiculously many movies in the past week, and the last one, seen at a free sneak preview in Ackerman tonight, followed by a Q&A with one of the directors, was "Inside Deep Throat", a documentary about the making of famous porn movie "Deep Throat" and its effects. It was very interesting, and besides that very, very funny. The scenes from the movie were funny, but they also did some very good editing, and often the expressions of people before or after they were saying something were hilarious (and telling). There was some scary stuff also, of course. For example, the prosecutor in the case against the lead actor in the movie said, right at the end, that it was annoying that there was so much terrorism because it meant so little energy could be devoted to battling smut (I'm paraphrasing, but you get the point). The director was a very laid-back and entertaining, and had some interesting views on censorship today and all that.

I still sometimes stop and suddenly realise, hey, I'm in LA, that's actually pretty cool! You tend to forget it when you just have your daily life of going to classes, hanging around on the couch watching TCM, and ehm, making out, but it is very cool just being here, and being able to go see movies for free where the director is actually present (or, to be precise, one of the two).

And not just one! Nohoooow, people, a sneak preview, cool? Pff, it was already my second. And the first one, last Tuesday, was no indie cool documentary either, but a full-blown blockbuster (or so they hope): "Constantine". Keanu Reeves as a bad-ass exorcist? Well, strangely enough, that I kinda bought. The motive for the bad guy however, I still don't understand. But well, you don't go to these kinds of movies for the plot, and the film certainly did the whole aethetic thing well.

Other movies (I'll be shorter about these): 4 of the 8 BMW short films (Terry has the DVD), Citizen Kane, Gaslight, and today in film class, "Un Chien Andalou" followed by "Clueless" :-|

Now, I can hear you thinking, is all you do watch movies? Not really, but it is the only part that seems even remotely interesting. Going to classes, Capoeira (5 classes in a row now, and I think I might actually maybe be getting a tiny fraction of a bit better at it), reading "The Elegant Universe" and liking it, and basically sleeping much too little. The weekend should be a lot of fun though. Tomorrow night I'll either go clubbing (I'm actually not superenthusiastic about the idea, I usually need some booze to lose my inihibitions and self-consciousness about dancing) with Sylvia, Koen, Lisa etc. or to the movie "Bride and Prejudice", a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice, with Ella and maybe some other people. Then Saturday, there's a Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown, and my family is arriving in the afternoon. Yay! Also, I heard Jordan's giving a party on Saturday night, and if Birgit isn't too tired it would be cool to take her there. Then Sunday? No fixed plans yet, but showing them Hollywood or Venice would be cool.

Well, to bed with me now, there has been too little sleeping in the past week...

Cheers,

Hedwig