Rat

Indie Memphis started yesterday and Mary Beth and I went out to Ridgeway to watch the first couple of films. The first was preceded by a short called The Privates about a band that can't avoid instruments exploding and starting fires most times they play, clock full of lots of goofy science-ish-ness. It was enjoyable. The first feature was called Mr. Roosevelt. It's cleanly in the quirky indie comedy genre (there was a thing in it about gendered use of the word "quirky" which I don't intend as I use the word for dude-stuff too?, also I'm not using it pejoratively). It was really good and funny. Next we watched Rat Film, an impressionistic documentary about rats and Baltimore. It was very visual and even had some synths in a few parts (on screen, there were bleeps and bloops all over the soundtrack). It lived up to its expectations and was really good. Also unsettling. Today at work I finished reading The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. It was a good book, light flow as is his signature.