and i DID get to sleep late, a great great great thing. i went running through the park and felt that i wasn’t wearing quite enough clothes, at least until i was about halfway done and got warmed up. there weren’t too many people outside, because of course it is GRAY AND SHITTY as usual. at least it’s getting dark so the greyness goes away.
i had lunch with linda who’s in my cast, and we had a very nice time. i was RAVENOUS from running, and we had chinese food so i felt like i was eating something healthy. as we were leaving, we stopped to watch the guy making crab rangoon, which is one of my favorite things. it’s actually the only fried thing that i really love. the crab rangoons looked incredibly easy to make, so i think i’ll try them some time. maybe i could steam them? hmm, what would christine say about that?
she’d say ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? instead of frying, you’d STEAM something that delicious?
christine and i have known each other for a long time now, and so i have a pretty good idea of what she’s thinking. actually, she might not even like crab rangoon, but i bet she does. because she loves fried things. because she’s a texan at heart. a football-loving texan with a mom who has a distinct southern accent.
i watched half of “teenage catgirls in heat” last night. i hadn’t watched it in so long, but i still remembered many of the lines, and of course i remembered a lot about the creation of each shot. in case you don’t know, this is a movie that my ex-boyfriend scott and i made, in 1991. it’s a B-comedy, kind of silly, kind of dumb, and it kind of doesn’t make that much sense. it seemed that if you didn’t know the lines by heart, you might not understand what the characters were saying. incidentally, catgirls was bought by Troma, the distributor of B movies in NYC, and you can buy it online if you want to. i’d give you the link, but i don’t feel like it. we sold the film about – 12? years ago? maybe more, and i assume that surely it’s made a little bit of money. i mean, at least a little. i haven’t seen any of that money. it doesn’t really bother me, because it’s only money, but it doesn’t make me want to promote the film or anything.
I was watching the movie with S. (Sylvester), who laughed sometimes. i think he liked the fact that i could tell him stuff about the making of the film as we watched it. like when scott and i went to dallas to shoot a sequence with a real live tiger, and we shot it in this guy’s house who owned the tiger, and the guy had MANY MANY scars all over his arms and i’m sure over other parts of his body that i couldn’t see, because of the attacks by the tiger. so i was just a little nervous when we were shooting the tiger roaming around the house, as we stood pretty much right next to it. the thing i can’t remember is WHY did i have to stand so close to the tiger, when scott was doing the actual shooting? moral support? was i there to provide a tourniquet if the tiger bit his arm off? i’ll have to ask scott the next time i talk to him.
the best part of the movie is the opening credit sequence. it gets a little muddy and complicated after that.
that is all for the moment. i hope your weekend is sunny and fun-filled. i REALLY hope amy and jim’s weekend is that, because right now they’re in SUNNY AND WARM mexico, at a place called the adventura spa palace resort. i will give you the link, so you can look at the photos and get really really jealous: Adventura Spa Palace!
ok then,
saturday grace.