nicole @nicole@myna.social

@sparrowpost I have! It’s actually been on my mind this week as something I really need to rewatch.

In my dreams, it’s a little more elaborate. But dream manifestations tend to be truthful, like that.

Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a #trans allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

@piratescarlett @pauline, be aware: this 👆🎞️🍶

@piratescarlett Yes, absolutely. 👏

@piratescarlett Are you proposing film/saké pairings!? 😍

@a0dbxza Ugetsu’s actually on my short list for rewatches right now. Let me rewatch that and then I’ll dip in here: super curious. 🙌

@a0dbxza I haven’t watched this one in twenty plus years, but I remember it as a revelatory experience for younger me.

Oh darn, it’s raining again. And—gasp—the weather app says it’s going to rain all day!

No choice but to brew a pot of coffee, pile some dried figs into a bowl, and stay in bed reading books all day. 🙄

At some nondeterministic point, I will translate the coffee pot into a wine bottle.

@sparrowpost https://myna.social/@nicole/109603788054936459 🙇‍♀️

I watched A Touch of Zen (1971) last night. https://boxd.it/SFm 🥰

Oh, mad 💞 for the lordly women of this film, who fling knives and soup, arrange marriages and ambushes; for the loyal retainers who dramatize royally; for the humble bookworm whose learnings actualize gruesomely; and, of course, for the goon-flicking buddhists who stand taller than all the rest.

Originally, two films, here stitched together, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was three or more: it includes its own prequel, sequel and prologue within it. Lovely, lovely photography, with some delightful nature intercutting during later fight scenes that would be difficult or impossible to articulate with today’s hyper-realistic #cinema language.