Progress report
Feb. 5th, 2007 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersSo I once again spent much of my productive time this weekend working on my fanzine for Corflu. I'm pretty close to done with it, I think. Just need to look it over one more time with fresh eyes this evening and then see about converting it to PDF for sending to the printshop. By the way, I'm not planning on distributing this to people on my Friends list, except for those who come to Corflu and a few others who have a particular interest. I figure most of you have seen the material here already, so you don't need to see it again. However, if you'd really like a copy, send me a poctsarcd, drop me a line, stating point of view, indicate precisely where you want it sent, yours sincerely, you know what I meant.
Other than pubbing my ish, I also watched a couple of older Almodóvar movies I hadn't seen before, Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987). It's easy to see why some old time Almodóvar fans think he's gotten more genteel in his later career (although I think he's just gotten more subtle, while remaining just as perverse). Both of these movies are extremely erotic, and Matador in particular is practically pornographic. (The version included in the Viva Pedro collection is in fact rated NC-17.) Both movies explore (or exploit) the connection between sex and death in a very striking fashion. Both feature a hunky Antonio Banderas playing a creepy but sympathetic stalker type, which is a type that Almodóvar seems almost obsessed with. I'm now very curious to see Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) again, because I remember it as being much more of a farce than these two immediate predecessors are, although they both have comedic aspects as well.
I also watched the Super Bowl. Ho-hum. But that Snickers commercial was almost Almodóvarian, come to think of it.
Other than pubbing my ish, I also watched a couple of older Almodóvar movies I hadn't seen before, Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987). It's easy to see why some old time Almodóvar fans think he's gotten more genteel in his later career (although I think he's just gotten more subtle, while remaining just as perverse). Both of these movies are extremely erotic, and Matador in particular is practically pornographic. (The version included in the Viva Pedro collection is in fact rated NC-17.) Both movies explore (or exploit) the connection between sex and death in a very striking fashion. Both feature a hunky Antonio Banderas playing a creepy but sympathetic stalker type, which is a type that Almodóvar seems almost obsessed with. I'm now very curious to see Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) again, because I remember it as being much more of a farce than these two immediate predecessors are, although they both have comedic aspects as well.
I also watched the Super Bowl. Ho-hum. But that Snickers commercial was almost Almodóvarian, come to think of it.
