| They don't write 'em like that anymore . . . |
[Jun. 3rd, 2007|12:28 am] |
Do black widows always have the red hourglass? Just trying to figure out exactly how far away into the desert I need to carry a very large black spider that looks widowy but lacks the red thingy . . . this will not happen until tomorrow as I just woke up about an hour ago (err, more than two hours ago by the end of this post because I got carried away w/thinking) and saw it in a corner of the bathroom . . . hopefully if it is a black widow it will not bite anyone before then, or me in particular when I (hopefully successfully) catch and carry . . . the males are smaller, not full-sized, right? tho I don't wish to keep a malefi around, either, as might attract a fi . . .
eta: 4:05 a.m. --the black widow is now about a quarter mile away in a stand of Joshua Tree. I started feeling guilty about others who might get bitten because of my sloth, caught it, locked the bupples inside so they couldn't follow me and took it out of the yard, way down the road and across the street (or the dirt/sand road, if one wishes to get picky) to somewhere it looked like it would be fine, w/plenty of cover, etc) When i went back in the bathroom I was worried I wouldn't find it, or that it would have killed this other comes-out-at-night spider we let live there which Sasha has named mega-nixie, but mega-nixie was happily alive, whilst the even larger and truly scary-edgy reminiscent of Alien black widow was building a web in the bathtub. And it's a full moon so had no trouble seeing to make sure it walked away safely, etc.
and I've generally been trying to stay in a good mood lately, so yet again I will pass on discussing things that upset/depress me, so you will yet again miss out on entertaining descriptions of how certain folk should die or my frustration over why no one ever mentions overpopulation as a, if not the, key to most environmental/climatological (is that a word?) problems & why this really is and all sorts of et ceteras. If you find that more interesting than me musing yet again on Wonderful Things About the Desert and How Beautiful It Is Out Here (and etc), fear not, for I shall avoid this also, even tho I'm thinking it. I mean outside right now . . . wow. Tis all perfect and moonshimmery.
I haven't done much more thinking on it, but here are my 10 desert island movies, in alpabetical order since I never did and probably never will decide on them if try to do this sanely:
After Dark, My Sweet
Against All Odds
American Beauty
American Pie
American Pie 2
Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves
The Doors
Fire, Walk With Me
Foxfire
The Matrix
Moulin Rouge
Point Break
Rock N Rule
Star Wars
Thelma and Louise
Yes, I can count. It's ten. ::points:: Look. See? Ten. Tho I probably forgot some. And things from Badlands to Network to Hackers to Joy Luck Club to Enter the Dragon to Johnny Mnemonic to The Apartment to Casablanca to Titanic to Heavy Metal (only for the final sequence, The Tyrakian, the rest is too problematic despite the music/animation) to Ninja Scroll & Vampire Hunter D to various Godzilla movies to The Grifters to Foxfire to that nicely atmospheric & thought provoking Canadian murder mystery / character study / mood piece where Mia Kirschner plays a junkie dominatrix to this old surreal horror movie w/Elke Sommer and Telly Savalas that I saw one night a couple of decades ago are screaming to be included. (oh! and Matt Helm movies! cause Elke Sommer being in one made me think of them, and those would be fun to be on a desert island with. Or at least they were when I was in elementary school; not sure how well they translate to adulthood). Tho it (err, "it"=the mia kirschner movie I can't remember the name of, and she isn't the lead but I don't remember his name either) has one squickie scene, too, now I think of it. Actually, add Foxfire. There. Done. Added. Yes, it's still ten, cause I'm cheating. I could easily get it closer to really being ten by knocking out Blade Runner & Against All Odds because of the bits where slapping someone is shown as a way to get them to kiss you w/out further argument, and the first AP because as much as I did laugh, letting your friends watch you try to seduce someone is REALLY not cool at all. But I'm leaving them there for now. Because I do think even that sequence of AP is well-meant, and I'm just gonna ignore those scenes from the other two movies. & the Mickey Rooney stuff from BaT's, yeah, I know, but it's definitely staying, because if I could only pick ONE movie? That might be it. And I can't figure out which of these not being on the desert island w/me would bother me the least, or which group of ten would blend best, so there. |
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