"you look fabulous"

[foxtongue]

t-shirt by torsopants

Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

A polyglot of limbs, tongue twisted in front of a film, I remember this room better than I thought I would, the incongruous poster on the wall of dancing dolphins, the shelf with less books than I would have assumed. Somehow, I am sorry that I do. Situations have shifted, dried like parchment, a fact more important than anything I felt when I woke here a different butterfly Sunday, months ago, tangled, content, and terrified, my fists full of hair and red between my legs, teetering on the cliff edge of falling in love. Certain doors have slammed. The blood I left has either been washed away or covered by a sheet, erased into history, like the skin of our relationship, something no longer demonstrably in existence.

Outside, it's raining, so we're cozy inside on a bed made of pillows that takes up half the room, watching Oldboy, a Korean masterpiece of paper doll romance, revenge, kung fu, and dark, bitter humour. It's one of my favourites. It slams out of the screen, shaking us into screams and laughter, revulsion and sympathy. I can almost ignore his hands. My Seattle friends had never seen it, so at certain moments MaryJane squirms, impressed into squeals, and Adam crawls farther up the bed, away from the screen, but we're loving it. The film is a beautiful bird of prey, gracefully eviscerating a small furry creature that completely deserved it. Possibly it did something bad to the bird's mother. It's fun, full of blood, and a horrible mystery, all at once. Wicked, it goes over well, and then it's time to leave. Evening, my bus, don't want to get stranded for the night.

Work would forgive me, but I might not.

Comments

[superjill.livejournal.com]

Oldboy. A crazy, stunning movie.
Did I mention crazy? It was crazy.

I <3 that t-shirt.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I love the entire trilogy, really, though I feel the third film is weak in comparison to the other two.

[superjill.livejournal.com]

I also saw Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.. is that one of the first 2? What was the 3rd?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's the first one, then comes OldBoy, then Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

[drcuriosity]

Interesting to read from different eyes in the room, with memories of the spectacle but not the spectators, connections and implications shuttered from view and hinted at in shadow plays in front of the screen. Feeling both welcomed and in danger of intruding.

Some days are better for the rain, all the same.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how that particular set of interactions would look like from the outside. Frankly, I have no idea, but I was expecting something slightly on the close edge of bizarre.

[drcuriosity]

Shapes beneath the bow of the boat, but I wasn't entirely sure if they were dancing dolphins or circling sharks. My social perceptions are confused enough most of the time that I don't have a good yardstick for bizarre, though.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

that shirt would be great if...marx wasn't useless.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

and yet, I know people who it would be appropriate on. doesn't everyone?

[drcuriosity]

Useless? Come on. Karl was always the funniest of the Marx Brothers.

[mishlai.livejournal.com]

Your prose brings me to the yard. You have a style of expression that is unfamiliar and exciting... I can't quite put my finger on it yet but immersion into your words is an effortless thing.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Some things are more difficult to write about than others.

[inri33.livejournal.com]

Was that you yelling 'Who's on first?' last night at JoCo?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

At what?