greg.org's reel roundtable

i went to the reel roundtable by myself tonight. that's always fun. it helped that most of the people there were on their own, so felt a little sophisticated and loner-esque. it was fairly interesting, he's not the world's best public speaker but he was very likable. can't say as much for the guy in the audience who kept making comments and trying to sound smart.. hell, he probably was smart but i hate people like that, they're just irritating as hell. no one cares who made the esoteric remark you just quoted, alright? new ban on the word esoteric too.

the movies- i mean the FILMS - were a neat spectrum of what influences greg. started off with most boring thing i've ever seen "gerry" by gus van sant. five minutes of my life are gone forever. when even audiences at pretentious film 'roundtables' get bored, it's time to cut it. by a lot. however, the ties greg made with "elephant" (columbine vehicle i'm putting on my netflix queue as i type), "gerry" and "red vs. blue" - sorry i can't do links, my blogger template is all wack. took me ten minutes to figure that out.

anyway, red vs. blue was awesome, then he showed "cremastor 4" (a TV version - unfort. still boring) and an orozco film, a man who i hated in the last post and still can't stand. blah. two crappy points. then came a short film by mr. allen, which was terrible but wasn't that great, and clips from "out of sight" which IS that great and "don't look now" which soderberg's film beat hands down in sexiness but julie christie wins for sexiest. damn, even her itsy-bitsy tits looked not horrid. nic roeg is talented.

then came the musicals - "singin' in the rain", i think, and "moulin rouge" and "south park". now i've never seen "moulin rouge" - it just never interested me, but that cancan song is pretty awesome. i like the guy's part. so maybe someday when i'm baked. oh, how lovely that will be.

so i don't know if tonight counted as art. i guess we'll see if i manage to do anything else this week and that will determine it. right now it's bedtime. goodnight.