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I'll be taking an entire week off of work in late September, because of the combination of travel to Wallace, Idaho for Christopher's 50th birthday on the 24th, which quite conveniently lands on a Saturday, with the long-planned Family Vacation (with all the Western Washington family) in Leavenworth over the next week, Monday through Thursday.
That trip on the previous weekend tacked on to the travel itinerary was Dad's idea, quite reasonably noting that it would be kind of shitty for us to ignore my brother's 50th birthday after we already had big parties for
Angel's 50th in 2019 and then
Gina's 50th in 2021.
In the same vein, I made tribute videos for both Angel (
featuring 50 photos) and Gina (
combining photos with video clips), and it's only fitting that I do the same for Christopher—in spite of the fact that, even though I only ever lived with him (he's the only genetic sibling I have; it was just Mom and him and me in Spokane growing up), my lifetime relationship with him is far more complicated, even with periods of estrangement, than it ever was with Angel or Gina. Nevertheless, I also have a lot more footage of him, a ton of it from the nineties quite fun and funny. He used to be really goofy and a lot of those old clips really make me laugh, so I want to curate them for his birthday.
I've starting tagging video clips on Flickr to gather them together for us in this project, which I already have a more ambitious vision for than previous ones for other people. I'm hoping to digitize the old "talk tapes" we recorded between 1990 and maybe 1996, so I can overlay funny audio clips with photos from before my earliest video clips of him (those start in 1992, the year he turned 20). I'm also envisioning a different approach with the editing, as in other videos I have stuck with putting the clips and photos in strictly chronological order. A lot of these video clips are so great, though, that I think approaching the editing with a greater eye for thematic sequencing might be in order. I had kept Angel and Gina's videos to the length of a single song, and I think I'll allow myself up to ten minutes for this one, mostly just because that's what Flickr limits for a single upload. Or, if I find the footage to be indispensable and it runs over, I'll just upload the finished product somewhere else and break it into separate pieces for the Flickr upload. We'll see.
I actually think this will be really fun. The trick will be making the time to get it done in time. I have literally one month, so I'd better get on it. Once I get started, though, the work will likely go quickly—once I'm in that mode I don't really stop until I'm done.
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As for last night, I took myself to yet another moderately disappointing movie,
Bodies Bodies Bodies. I do a lot of complaining about it in my review but I still stand by the solid B. My complaints are basically about why it didn’t get a higher grade than that.
This was my first movie in a theater since the previous Tuesday, when Tracy and I went to see the 40th anniversary release of
E.T>. I didn't review that, so it was my first movie review since
Prey on August 14. And that one was a streaming release, so yesterday was my first review of a theatrical release since
I Love My Dad on August 8. This really has not been the greatest summer for movie releases. 2020 and 2021 were arguably worse, but 2022 was expected to be the most like pre-pandemic movie summers, and it very much was not. We did have a couple box office blockbusters, especially
Top Gun Maverick, but it's been months since even that release. Plus, this summer has been otherwise packed with movies that should have been better than they were. It's like the Summer of Unrealized Potential.
There's a lot of great sounding movies coming in the fall, at least. But, I guess we'll see how even that pans out.
I saw the movie yesterday at 5:00, so I rode my bike direct from work to Pacific Place, then rode the rest of the way home after. There were so many fucking trailers before the movie that in spite of it being a 94-minute film it was still well after 7:00 when it let out. It was after 8:30 by the time I finished the review; I posted the link to social media at 8:49. That gave just enough time for Shobhit and me to watch Sunday night's episode of
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver before I went to bed.
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[posted 12:20 pm]
