There was an attempted suicide at the 82nd Ave MAX stop yesterday late afternoon, just as I was rushing home from the media center to do my exercises and get ready for the Hat Party. We stalled at the Lloyd Center stop and the operator announced that there was a person "involved with a train in some way" but that they were "getting it cleaned up," which sounded gruesome. I know all the gory horror movies I've seen haven't desensitized me to violence, because the thought of getting off the train and seeing human remains made my stomach churn. I considered getting off at the 60th Ave stop and walking up. But when we got off, there was no sign of any carnage. The news crews all had vans and cameras on the overpass, but the word "attempted" sounds like it didn't work for whoever the poor person was. (You thought you were depressed before!) I didn't get to watch the news 'cause I was at the Hat Party.
More on that later.
Speaking of human remains, I saw "Sunshine Cleaning" this morning - Joel accompanied me - we both loved it. Amy Adams is kind of a warmer, likable, younger Nicole Kidman. Alan Arkin of course superb as always, and Emily Blunt very funny as well. Definitely an "A."
As part of my gearing-up-for-Maui-and-then-San-Francisco process, I've resolved to make at least one drawing or visual artwork - even if it's only a rough sketch - every day from now until I leave, to tone up the parts of my brain used in drawing and painting, which have probably atrophied since I've been inactive in those mediums for so long. I'm relieved to find I haven't lost anything in the interim, in fact I think I'm better than ever. I'm ramping up to begin painting again when I get to the islands. I think I need to paint and draw nothing but cute boys for a while, because when I make picture of people I'm attracted to, they always come out well. I'm motivated to finish and to make them as attractive as I find them. Hence the portrait of Otto from the Bruce LaBruce film "Otto; or, Up with Dead People" above. (Otto played by Jey Crisfar, who unfortunately swears on his MySpace page that he will never show his ass on camera again.)
I just ordered a copy of Otto off Amazon. It's a keeper. Definitely the best gay zombie porn film I've seen.
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