Who will love my ironies?

Settling into the 'brain-death' portion of the work week. Need to snap myself out of it. Not sure if I will. Not sure if I'll be going to the movies tomorrow, either, since I'll want to see Materialists, my mom will want to see How to Train Your Dragon But It's Brown Now, and neither of us want to see the other's choice even remotely. Hopefully I can convince her to meet me in the middle and just go see the OG HTTYD, which is also playing, and in an improbably late enough slot for me to go after work. We'll see! It's Friday the 13th, why are there no horror movies out this weekend???

( Album #488/1001: The Young Rascals - Groovin' )

And just like that, we're back to work. I actually had a very busy week off, but naturally, I have forgotten all of it. Probably because of the lack of sleep! I napped real hard yesterday so wasn't able to even settle down to pretend to sleep until about two in the morning, but I was able to drag myself out of bed a couple of hours later regardless, and that's what really matters, right?

I managed to carve out about half an hour of deck lounger time in between the alternating rain and smoke, which is... something, I guess. Truly hurts me to feel like I'm wasting the longest days of the year, but I cannot yet control nature.

Went to the movies THREE times last week, which was wonderful for my spirit. After the Monday Mystery Movie, there was a Wednesday showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of this 60th anniversary thing Landmark is doing for the rest of the year and it was amazing to see on the big screen. And then Ballerina was a lot of fun in our usual Saturday slot! A worthy addition to the 'bisexual lighting action movie' genre, a long-overdue payoff to the promise No Time to Die showed re: Ana de Armas, and I hope they make three more of them; the John Wick universe (jaywoo) and its assassin-based economy is too weird and wonderful not to keep going (I never watched The Continental because of the Mel Gibson of it all, was it any good?).

And then I found motherfucking carpet beetle worms. Four in my bathroom, one under where I keep spare blankets, a bunch under my laundry hamper in the closet. I think it's a mark of maturity that I'm not completely freaking out and burning everything when I really, really want to because oh my god I can't do this again. For now, I've just cleaned the bathroom extensively because that's the easiest room to secure and now I'll just... see if they recur and keep eliminating potential sources if so. There was a dead one in a bathroom drawer, so maybe they came from there originally (the vents, maybe??) and just spread via floordrobe (which I will obviously be cracking down on) and this will take care of the problem? Please, please, please, god.

Grabbed a couple of records in a sale and they sent me the wrong one, which is very annoying now, while I'm still waiting for the replacement of the one I most wanted (Beat the Champ, an album I loved long before I randomly became able to appreciate it on Much Deeper Levels), but will be very neat once it comes in and I will have basically gotten a free album out of the mixup. Things to look forward to! I switched this paragraph with the last one to end on a more positive note.

( Album #483/1001: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below )

June Movie Count: 6 (Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

I mostly just watched wrestling and Enterprise this week for some reason? Which was not as fulfilling as a variety of movies likely would have been, but Fyter Fest was great, and the episode where Trip gets Never Let Me Go'd did make me cry a tiny bit, which is very embarrassing. One week to freedom!

RIP Brian Wilson!

The cold is continuing, and morale is not improving! I guess that beats being on fire like the rest of the world MUST be to keep blowing all of this smoke on us, but nevertheless, I bleh. Hopefully bailing on work early to go to the movies tonight will help. Save me, mystery movie! And buy my bullshit, coworkers!

( Album #484/1001: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country )

June Movie Count: 1 (Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

Feeling... blank. It's the weekend, which is nice, but it's still smoky and I'm still cold, and we're not even going to the movies this week because mom doesn't want to see anything so I don't even get my usual Saturday reprieve. There is a Monday Mystery Movie coming up, and I'm like 90% sure it's something my mom really wants to see, but I don't know if I can get away with leaving work early when I already showed up late on Wednesday. Maybe I'll just claim an emergency, ugh. I gotta get out!!!

19. What Were Your Favorite Picture Books When You Were Little?

fox

socks

box

knox

knox in box

fox in socks

knox on fox in socks in box

May Movie Count: 36 (Thief, The Cry of Granuaire, Lured, Out of Here, Hannah and Her Sisters, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, The Insider, River of Grass, Strip Nude for Your Killer, Kaili Blues, The Last of the Mohicans, Death Walks at Midnight, Deep Red, Bring Her Back, Final Destination Bloodlines, The Image You Missed, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus x2, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark x2, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters? x2, The Fog)

Back at work. Slept weird. Somehow got front row tickets to All Out, though, which is pretty much all that matters in the world? Even if I need to eat nothing but cups of noodles and canned soup for the foreseeable future to make sure I can afford the trip. Some hot sauce can really jazz up one of those cups, anyway!

( Album #482/1001: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion )

May Movie Count: 32 (Out of Here, Hannah and Her Sisters, Amadeus (director's cut this time; it's not as tight but I do like the additional context of the extra scenes), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (but with the English dub this time), Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, The Insider, River of Grass, Strip Nude for Your Killer, Kaili Blues, The Last of the Mohicans, Death Walks at Midnight, Deep Red, Bring Her Back, Final Destination Bloodlines, The Image You Missed, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

ALL OUT IN TORONTO THIS YEAR, EAT IT CHICAGO. YOU GET YOUR POPE, WE GET YOUR PPV, THAT WAS THE DEAL. It'll be coming right after Forbidden Door and the Philly 2300 Arena residency, too, so it could be a very interesting show! I've got exactly one week to prepare for ticket sales and then exactly four months to prepare for my first (possibly only?) proper trip of the year so LET'S FUCKING GO.

For now though, I've got four hours left in my work week and mom birthday shit to figure out aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

18. Do You Ever Feel Overlooked and Underappreciated?

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haha

we have fun here

May Movie Count: 20 (Bring Her Back, Final Destination Bloodlines, The Image You Missed, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

Still so cold. Still so grumpy about it. Really wish I was going to the movies tonight, but noooooooo. I've got a package that I've got to go downtown to pick up that I won't be able to get to until Wednesday at the earliest and I'm sad about it, because I think it's cute wrestling merch. Everything sucks just a little bit right now!!!

At least work is quiet so far. Time is moving at a fucking crawl, though. Just saw a girl wearing an actual tube top like it's 2003 or something. I remain very disappointed that the Merge Mansion tag on AO3 is nothing but Pedro Pascal/reader smut. HE'S NOT EVEN IN THE GAME.

16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On?

......where do you think I live? There's nothing to do here except going to the movies BUT THAT'S NOT IN THE FUCKIN' CARDS TONIGHT.

May Movie Count: 17 (Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

I would simply like to not be constantly freezing in the middle of May, that's all! I wish that wasn't such a big ask of both man and nature, but here we are!

Work is just annoying in general today, honestly, but the hours are ticking steadily by and we are, in fact, closed for Victoria Day, so I have that to look forward to. Nothing will impede my seeing the Monday Mystery Movie this week!

Torn between rewatching all the final destinations and all of the impossible missions ahead of their respective next installments, I will probably do neither. Is it too early to start thinking about tonight's supper? OH WELL.

( Album #479/1001: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking )

May Movie Count: 15 (Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

And just like that, it's Tuesday again. Back to work in the morning. I don't want to do that, but it was a fine week off, good and restful, so I should be able to tackle it head-on.

The weather is nice and the days are getting loooooong. Just a couple more weeks before I bust the deck lounger out and declare basking season OPEN.

For some reason I cannot determine, I have started playing Merge Mansion in 2025. Weird! Will I finally find out what that granny is up to???

Even considering the full-body douche-chills that the phrase 'American Pope' still gives, I do think I'm probably going to like this one.

Takeshita calling El Phantasmo by his shoot name again after Resurgence is honestly so, so important to me. But not as important as Drilla's face. And body. And voice. Ugh!!!!

I'm thinking a bath and a stir fry tonight to end the week right. We'll see what the evening brings!

( Album #477/1001: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway )

May Movie Count: 12 (Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

It's so cold! I'm so cold!! And achy, and bleeding, and tired, but! It is Tuesday! And that means tonight I get to sleep the sleep of the just. I've already turned off my alarms, I can't wait to stay up late tonight without that looming sense of dread that otherwise comes with the hours ticking by, each one making the next day at work that much harder. No more!!!

The frigid rain earlier in the week has at least made some of the grass start turning a bit green, which has done a lot to lessen the general sense of springtime dreariness clinging to all those newly-revealed landscapes. Once the trees start blooming, it'll be like night and day.

Ten more hours of pretending to work, I can do this!!!!

15. How Careful Are You in the Sun?

Not... very. I'll slather on sunscreen and pop on a hat if it's real hot/sunny out and I'm going to be really baking on the deck with a book or something, beyond that I don't really bother. Which isn't good, I know, but I don't burn easily and I like to get enough of a tan to keep the pastiness at bay through the long winter months, so hopefully I don't end up all leathery in my forties! GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO BE A CONCERN AGAIN, I'M SO TIRED OF BEING COLD.

May Movie Count: 6 (A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)