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[ateolf]

I did a little bit of Memphis Concrète set editing yesterday. Getting pretty close to the end of that. Not many more artists left. I played around a little with the module Nate lent me. It makes glitchy percussion-ish sounds. It was the most fun when I triggered it with my Mikrophonie so it was kinda like a synth drum. Mary Beth and I did some movie watching at home. We watched that Rogue One star wars movie. It was pretty good for a star wars movie. Some decent things about it, some cheesy things. Speaking of cheese, I ate a whole bunch of chips and cheese dip (las delicias and panchos). Then after that we watched Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! which I hadn't seen since college. It'd been so long I'd remembered almost nothing about it and what I thought I'd remembered was wires crossed with another Spanish movie I saw around the same time (probably for the same entry-level spanish class). Not sure what to think about it right now. Need to think about it some more. There were some I liked about it (especially visually), but the end is kinda, hm. There are some subtler things happening that make me think about it a little differently beneath the surface, but watching some interviews with the people who made it and it makes me think that they're not really there and I'm just projecting what I want it to be. Aside from paying for yesterday's cheese crimes this morning, that's about it.

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[ifjuly]

and i think it's fascinating in ways i'm still trying to untangle some, how it's both (to be annoyingly reductive for the sake of communicative shorthand i trust you'll give me the benefit of the doubt with given our relationship) sharply "unfeminist", seems to actively refuse what to me feels like it sees as a stifling or reductive code (but too, has the luxury to...), yet it's also silently feminist in transgressive ways (the sexuality, Marina's sexual sensibility, and the unspoken awareness of the dangers and limitations/marginalization/judgment such appetites get bundled with if you're a woman...but also how they are, or could be at least, a source of power and self definition, too) without being doctrinaire/by the book coded/lecture-y, it simply is if you know what to look for. which goes back to the (again, for lack of better terminology) gay male art/underground scene sensibility thing. i'm trying to figure out the relation of the "not gonna be a second waver by the book feminist, nosiree" sort of "art vs politics" rebellious statement vis a vis the latter thing. if they're, in some ways, even at odds with each other (it seems to me almodovar obviously doesn't think so, that the actual harmony of the two's almost an underlying principle).