Watch Out For Bees!

[shanmonster]

I saw one of my old bosses yesterday--the crazy one who would throw hundreds of wire coathangers around the shop just to make sure I'd have something to do. He runs a bong shop, now, and was bent over, putting out a clapboard sign. I said hi to him, and he straightened up to look at me. I literally did a double take. He looks like absolute hell. He's lost a lot of weight, and his usually animated face looked dead. He didn't even smile. He looked like a zombie. My first thought was maybe he has AIDS, but f00dave suggested he may have become a junkie, which is also possible. Either way, it's disturbing how far downhill he's slipped since I last spoke with him, maybe six months ago.

I also saw Brian Atkinson who says he's off to Argentina for a while. When he gets back, he wants to work with me again. I think that sounds just spiffy. It's been rather a long time since I've done a photo shoot.

Today was terribly unproductive. I woke up with a bizarre migraine variant. This one made it difficult for me to think clearly, and my vision was marred by auras and pixellation. I believe there were blind spots, or faded-out bits. As a result, I was terribly cranky in the morning. I took an Advil, and the symptoms faded away. Nevertheless, my day was very low-energy, and I accomplished little. I tried writing my NaNoWriMo piece, but everything I was writing was too boring to write, let alone read. Hopefully, I'll be more competent on the morrow. I also skipped my kung fu class since I was feeling so off-balance. I did go through a slow, sloppy Sup Bat Sou once in the living room, and it left me out of breath and wobbly. Bah, I say! Bah! I'll betcha this whole mess is happening because I'm killing bees again.

Afterwards, I watched Eegah! with f00. There is a very good reason this movie ranks as the #13 worst movie on IMDB. It is one of the absolute worst movies I have ever seen. The foley artists must have been experiencing alcoholic blackouts, and the screenwriters tacked on a Biblical reference to Nephilim at the end of the film out of some sort of deepseated religious guilt. It also has an incestual undercurrent which makes King Lear's thing for Cordelia look like a normal father-daughter relationship. And then there's the dialogue of the invisible actor: "Watch Out For Snakes!" I had to pause the movie several times just so I could reset my brain.

Now I need to watch a really good movie to achieve balance.

Comments

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your headache. Are you trying to tell us something with the picture of the bee-killer? Also, if you're going to post a link to a movie, try the Internet Movie Database -- like the entry for Eegah (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055946/). There's more info there.