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Saturday, August 19, 2006
Someone is obsessed
Thursday, August 17, 2006
RE: Project Runway
dear greg, john, and i dont know you linda and pam but anyway, since i have
been on vacation i have not seen the last 2 or so episodes. i tried finding
on tv last night but i dont know where it is in durham and couldn't find it
in the tv guide, maybe they don't have it here. last week we were on the
yacht 3 or 4 days so missed it and it is wierd because in nyc the promise of
runway kept me going all week and here i haven't really thought about it too
much especially after keith got banished and then bradley it just seems like
a bunch of nutty peolple left over except for uli and maybe allison.
but yea i do miss seeing the creative process in action and do give them all
alot of credit for putting together whatever they do under such high stress
deadlines, competition and doing it all in front of a camera.
Rumi: Love is like a lawsuit
I am amazed at the seeker of purity
who when it's time to be polished
complains of rough handling.
Love is like a lawsuit:
to suffer harsh treatment is the evidence;
when you have no evidence, the lawsuit is lost.
Don't grieve when the Judge demands your evidence;
kiss the snake so that you may gain the treasure.
That harshness isn't toward you,
but toward the harmful qualities within you.
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
-- Rumi, c. 4008
who when it's time to be polished
complains of rough handling.
Love is like a lawsuit:
to suffer harsh treatment is the evidence;
when you have no evidence, the lawsuit is lost.
Don't grieve when the Judge demands your evidence;
kiss the snake so that you may gain the treasure.
That harshness isn't toward you,
but toward the harmful qualities within you.
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
-- Rumi, c. 4008
Project Runway
I caught up with last week's show as well, since I fell asleep during the runway showing of the fashion icons. Vincent's Twiggy was all wrong.
I thought Vincent should have been kicked off this week. All the while he was making his dress, I thought it was ridiculous, throwing handfuls of confetti at it. Then when it was presented, I was surprised that it seemed kind of fun to watch, but was completely impractical. It probably fell apart the instant the model walked off the runway. I felt sorry for Alison. Her dress was bad, but she had a large model to work with, too, didn't she? The producers are always thinking about good television, though, and they probably want Vincent to stay on because he's such a freak. But I miss Bradley, who wasn't good television as a participant, but gave such a sweet farewell the week before.
I expected Jeffrey to win. I really liked that dress, the colors, the design. So did most viewers, according to the online poll. And most people hated Vincent's the most. http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/rate/season/3/episode/6/results
Jeffrey's seemed to be the only one that didn't look like it was made out of recycled material.
I really like this show, although I care nothing for fashion, but I like that it shows a bunch of people working in a creative process, making creative decisions and doing the work, and then it shows the process of aesthetic criticism, the judges evaluating the work. Two of my favorite things in one television show. Maybe that's why I like cooking shows, too.
I thought Vincent should have been kicked off this week. All the while he was making his dress, I thought it was ridiculous, throwing handfuls of confetti at it. Then when it was presented, I was surprised that it seemed kind of fun to watch, but was completely impractical. It probably fell apart the instant the model walked off the runway. I felt sorry for Alison. Her dress was bad, but she had a large model to work with, too, didn't she? The producers are always thinking about good television, though, and they probably want Vincent to stay on because he's such a freak. But I miss Bradley, who wasn't good television as a participant, but gave such a sweet farewell the week before.
I expected Jeffrey to win. I really liked that dress, the colors, the design. So did most viewers, according to the online poll. And most people hated Vincent's the most. http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/rate/season/3/episode/6/results
Jeffrey's seemed to be the only one that didn't look like it was made out of recycled material.
I really like this show, although I care nothing for fashion, but I like that it shows a bunch of people working in a creative process, making creative decisions and doing the work, and then it shows the process of aesthetic criticism, the judges evaluating the work. Two of my favorite things in one television show. Maybe that's why I like cooking shows, too.
On 8/17/06, LMW wrote:
So, what did you think of the decision tonight on Project Runway? I
guess they chose the right one, altho I did think that Vincent's long
white dress was rather odd, and since he bothers me to no end, I wish
it had been he who was voted off. I rather like Alison. And, I
guess I have absolutely no fashion sense because I rather liked
Kayne's dress, altho the makeup and hair were awful. Actually,
I kind of liked Kayne's first skirt if you did away with the bottle
caps.
I think I really favored Uli's dress over Michael's that won. And, I
sort of liked how Jeffrey's dress did not end up looking like
newspaper but did look like material in the end, altho I did not care for his "'tude" at the end. Oh, and his tattoo looks to me like his
neck is dirty. Laura really surprised me with her words to Vincent
at the end--I think he bothers her as much as me!! She rather does
act like the group mother, tho.
So, what do your buds say about last night's episode? Those judges
do not mince any words, tho, do they? They are brash and direct--
makes me wonder, after putting a lot of work into those crazy ideas
the directors come up with (I mean, garbage????), it surprises me
that the designers do not break down and cry more often than they
do.........or at least curse or say "fuck" more often than they do.
The expressions on their faces make me excited to see what the
challenge will be for next week's episode. So, when, just when is
Heidi going to start looking pregnant???
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Having children
Eduardo and I went to see The Night Listener last night. Well, we went to eat popcorn on free popcorn night, but we saw The Night Listener. In it, Robin Williams plays a gay late night radio storyteller. His good friend played by Sandra Oh (I like her a lot) says something to him about the fact that he should have overcome his parents by his age. He replies something to the effect of "good luck with that."
I gave my dad a copy of my Guatemala book to read a couple of weeks ago in some burst or attempt at connection. Thought he might be interested in something his son had written. He brought it back about a day later, said he'd read about a hundred pages but found he had to go to the dictionary too often. "I don't know why you wanted me to read that," he said. Guess it wasn't enough about saving souls from Hell.
I read Andrew Holleran's wonderful short book set in D.C., "Grief," a few weeks ago, about a gay man pondering the meaning of grief as he teaches a class on AIDS and reads the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln. His mother had just died in Florida before he moved to D.C. In the end, he realizes, with beautiful sadness, that overcoming your parents, overcoming your family.... probably just isn't going to happen.
There's a sort of horror in watching your children grow, knowing you are trying to help them, knowing you love them and not knowing exactly why, and knowing that you are doing a number on them, no matter what you do.
I'm running away to Latin America, someday.
I gave my dad a copy of my Guatemala book to read a couple of weeks ago in some burst or attempt at connection. Thought he might be interested in something his son had written. He brought it back about a day later, said he'd read about a hundred pages but found he had to go to the dictionary too often. "I don't know why you wanted me to read that," he said. Guess it wasn't enough about saving souls from Hell.
I read Andrew Holleran's wonderful short book set in D.C., "Grief," a few weeks ago, about a gay man pondering the meaning of grief as he teaches a class on AIDS and reads the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln. His mother had just died in Florida before he moved to D.C. In the end, he realizes, with beautiful sadness, that overcoming your parents, overcoming your family.... probably just isn't going to happen.
There's a sort of horror in watching your children grow, knowing you are trying to help them, knowing you love them and not knowing exactly why, and knowing that you are doing a number on them, no matter what you do.
I'm running away to Latin America, someday.
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