Not really out to post photos of my friends or anything ("look, there's you! And there's ME!"). Go on rants about my political opinions. Talk about celebrities or thinkers I think are cool.
HOWEVER
Yes HOWEVER because through the good graces of a woman who is not actually named Quincey but for the purposes of this blog is, I am in possession of the following:
Probably this means little or nothing to you. YOU DAMNED FOOL! I forgive you.
This is like you getting to see one of YOUR bands, whatever they are for you, like the top two or three bands in your life. Jhonn Balance is unfortunately dead, so there's no more Coil, but Peter Christopherson made all the music anyway and this is him and I'm getting to see him.
And it just keeps coming:
The first ticket is a 12 hour horror movie marathon. Then Threshold Houseboys Choir. Then on Monday they're showing Suspiria. In a cinema! Amazing.
The movie tickets, I should say, were subsidised by the Film House membership I got as a going-away present from my job in New Zealand. So in something of an irony, working to promote the rights of women has given me a discount to see a film where women are stabbed, dissected, impaled by glass, hung from nooses, covered in maggots, cursed by surreal flashing lights, dropped into a room full of barbed wire, and then brought back to life to attack their friends.
If someone pitched me this weekend, and said: "all of this could be yours, but we'd have to pull one of your fingernails out with pliers", I would have said: "okay, do it." I would probably have asked for a shot of whiskey or something first. But going to these movies and this gig is better good than having a fingernail pulled out would be badly bad. Go Quincey.
Thank you for indulging me. Hopefully this does not constitute gloating. Probably not.
It probably doesn't mean a lot to you. There has been mention that recent Sleep Dep entries ("Sleep Dentries") have been gloomy and suggestive of a sad or depressed state of mind. Not so.
Here is a picture of a boarded up primary school near my office:
I get it. I understand.
ReplyDeleteParticularly like: "So in something of an irony, working to promote the rights of women has given me a discount to see a film where women are stabbed, dissected, impaled by glass, hung from nooses, covered in maggots, cursed by surreal flashing lights, dropped into a room full of barbed wire, and then brought back to life to attack their friends." Seemed kind of sweet, in a really sick way. Hugs to Quincey for knowing all kinds of good things to get you. If I didn't know what star sign you are I'd get all paranoid that these treats are in aid of your birthday and I've missed it. Probably I have missed it, but I'm tolerably certain it isn't this weekend. Have a marvellous time, and remember all of it (except perhaps gory things).
ReplyDeleteNo birthday, just a brilliant confluence of Chris-related forces. It's like the world decided to give me a pat on the back or something.
ReplyDeleteThe Threshold gig would have totally slipped by unspotted had it not been for Quincey systematically trawling through the events & gigs sites, as she does.
And it was awesome.
The movie marathon was good too, although the clear highlight in terms of quality (a spanish film called "Mama") was only two and a half minutes long. It was really scary!