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08 July 2007
7:59 PM
I guess this personal archaeology is going to be most days, not everyday exactly.
Friday, M and I went out for sushi and Ratatouille after work. The movie is great, by the way, and if the plot is not the least predictable I've seen, it's more than made up for by other excellent things, like some actually scary chase/action sequences, spot on comic timing, and perfection from Peter O'Toole. I bring it up mainly because I didn't clean that day.
Today, I ran errands and did laundry most of the day. So I was productive at least, and that's the real goal. Progress.
Coming home from the show we saw last night, I had a realization. Several, really, but one to do with yesterday's entry which I'll share. It's not that I don't believe in evil per se. I'm still a fence-sitter as far as that goes; I lean away, but then I'm often naive about how other people might act since it's hard to conceive of things which are not me. So it might exist, though of course in my case independent of any cosmic being(s).
I also don't necessarily think that there isn't something basically different between a "normal" person and, say, a serial killer. There may be - but it's the fearful and naive complete separation without evaluation that I don't like. How can you know they are not like you without thinking about it? How is it useful to simply push anything, any thought away?
Anyway.
I was glad about the show we saw last night. I was afraid it would be disappointing as most, especially seeing that the director was associated with the teaching program at one of the crappy big name theaters previously. I was pleasantly surprised. Here was a team which actually understood the damn play, which seems lacking greatly. (Maybe it's people who do understand, but puss out and do what they think will be an approach more likely to sell. I know theaters need to support themselves, but yikes.)
It was nice to see someone who understood the freaking play. It was excellent to think about where I thought the approach did or didn't work, unlike the usual total ruin. The Richard III thing didn't really work - too distracting to be so humpbacked. I wonder too whether all the Shakespeare was in the original or the translation. Also, Brecht usually puts titles before the scenes, and I think they belonged there this time as well.
But they fucking understood the play. Thank god.
I got an email yesterday from someone I studied abroad with. She points out that it's been almost four years since we went, and that we'd talked about a reunion at five years. Going back, even. Sometimes things do come up at the same time.
Now I just have to wait for the third thing from the past to come up.
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