this monologue is pure gold. no surprise it watches better than it reads:
Now I don’t even have you. Imagine me needing someone.
Back on Earth I never did. Oh, there were women. Lots of women. Lots of… lovemaking, but no love. That was the kind of world we’d made. So I left because there was no one to hold me there. Did I tell you about Stewart?Now there was a lovely girl. The most precious cargo we’d brought along. She was… to be the new Eve. With our hot and eager help, of course. Probably just as well she didn’t make it this far. Do you love me, I wonder? Can you love, I wonder? Well… You’re not as smart as Stewart, but you’re the only girl in town.
Look at that. I… I taught you to smile.
so, ryan. i decided after our conversation about planet of the apes to live blog dead blog take notes on a piece of paper about my experience of watching the movie for the first time. enjoy.
1. awesome. (whereupon i sent you a text saying so.)
2. i love how everything looks like a set - can you even make movies like this anymore?
3. nobody told me there were butts in this movie!
4. i wonder what it would be like to watch this movie without knowing the “BIG TWIST”
5. “bright eyes, i’ve got a present for you.” indeed!… wait, but then they just cut to the work scene? does that mean he just slept with that woman in his cage? well. it has been thousands of years.
6. dr. zaius gives me all kinds of creeps. now i have to stay up to finish the movie or he will haunt me in my sleep.
7. ruling chase scene.
8. how did i get chips down my shirt again?
9. statue of liberty, damn you all to hell, etc. zzzzzz…
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
deciding how i feel about the studio sound. i’m thinking: good.
my people have committed two sins: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
-jeremiah 2:13
who are the modern prophets?
we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-t.s. eliot, four quartets
you always see those cheesy hallmark-type “recipes” for, say, a best friend - which would include lines like “add a generous pinch of loyalty,” that bland sort of thing. being someone who cooks a lot, i’ve found that actual recipes sometimes include unintentionally poetic instruction.
from a recipe for basil syrup: “press hard against and discard solids”
indeed.
just learned that germany leads the cheese world in terms of exports, which i found surprising - i’ve tasted very few german cheeses. france still brings in the most money from cheese, but germany has them beat for volume.
that said, i think some of the best cheeses today are coming from the good ol’ U.S. of A. if you haven’t tasted “american” cheese in a while, it’s worth revisiting. we’re obviously not talking kraft singles here - these are small production, artisanal and farmstead operations. for the 4th of july i served:
MEADOW CREEK GRAYSON - semisoft, cow’s milk, washed rind from virginia
BEECHER’S FLAGSHIP RESERVE - a grassy clothbound cheddar from seattle
SWEET GRASS DAIRY GREEN HILL - buttery double creme, cow’s milk, from georgia
