Tue 27 Sep 2005
Hi all,
Don’t know how many of you saw “Firefly”, Joss Whedon’s brilliant (but thanks to $%#^! Fox, short-lived) “space western” (”but not boring, like she makes it sound”, to quote Wash), but the movie based on it, “Serenity”, opens this Friday. Seeing the show is not a prerequisite for seeing the movie– go, one and all! Or I shall be forced to write more posts with unseemly numbers of parenthetical comments! (Bwahahaha!)
Kim
Fri 29 Jul 2005
Kiri’s comment on Elizbeth’s post about the Art’s fest (My arts fest post is coming, honest). Reminded me of an idea I had for decorating. Now, I know what you are thinking, but no, you don’t need to own furniture in order to give an opinion. Besides, I have furniture now.
My idea was to decorate entirely with movie posters. In the kitchen: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman? Babette’s Feast?. Bathroom: Psycho, or The Shining. Recall that the poster for The Shining is Jack Nicholson glaring through the hole he has chopped in the Bathroom door saying “Heeere’s Johnny!”. Dining Room: Big Night(?). Et cetera. It seemed like a very interesting puzzle to select posters.
Of course I don’t actually decorate for the sake of decorating. But if I did i think I would choose to decorate with fantastic themes. The print that I bought at BayCon last year is an example. Similarly, the drawing that Joan has on her wall of a young girl riding a tiger. The piece of fine art they remind me is Balthus’s Le Beaux Jours, which I love. I like the way all these images tell a story. Certainly, the best movie posters do the same.