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I wasted a whole lot of time last night on something really dumb. I mean, I have to stay on brand!
I know I have an old home video clip of Barbara, I'm almost certain from the late nineties, in which I turn my video camera on her, and she says something to the effect of "Don't do that." I ask why and she said, "Because! I have to shit!"
It really cracks me up and I'd love to crop it out into a video clip.
Here's the problem: I can't find it. And I have spent a
lot of time looking for it. Way more than is really justified for the mild amusement of the exchange. What bothers me, though, is the idea that I may have somehow missed it (??) when I digitized my back catalogue of home video tapes in early 2021. My assumption was that any video clip I might need is now in digital form, but, here is something I can remember but can't find.
Even went to the original tapes I still have stored in the walk-in closet, to check labels with dates. I found all the digitized clips online that correspond to those dates, and I still can't find it.
This is the real problem, though: memory. Enough studies have been done to know that, for instance, memory alone is wildly unreliable for something like convicting a criminal. You need corroborating evidence, because the brain changes details of memories all the time. I could swear this video clip is of Barbara, sitting against a wall, at her apartment, in Spokane, in the late nineties. It's entirely possible it was actually a clip of her, say, in my apartment in the early aughts in Seattle. I just can't figure it out. It's driving my OCD brain bonkers.
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Shobhit worked a shift last night and, although I'd have loved to go see
Dumb Money last night, Tracy wants to see it with me but can't until October 3 (sheesh!). That left no movie to go see, which was fine. I had TV to catch up on anyway.
I watched this week's
Ahsoka, which was about as fine as any other episode in my opinion, but I spoke with Gabriel on the phone later while I was in bed and he was disappointed by the introduction of two crucial characters the others have been talking about all of the previous five episodes. Admittedly it was a little anticlimactic, but my conditioning to this show has been not to anticipate anything all that "climactic" to begin with. I do like the purrgils, though. (Side note: I am not at all invested in the debate as to whether the plural is properly "purrgils" or "purrgil.")
I think I enjoy the overlong
House of R podcast episode recaps more than the show itself, actually. It provides a nice combination of the passion for the show that I like, and helpful contextualization for those of us who never watched any of the animated series these characters are from.
Anyway! Shanti puked all over the ottoman while I was trying to eat and watch that. So that was a nice highlight of my evening.
I then set about editing some more of the "Australia" section of my eventual "2023 in Ten Minutes" video. I was aiming to have the Australia portion end by the 4:23 mark, and I've got it down to 4:25. I think I can live with that. Boy, did I have to cut stuff I really wanted to be able to share in there. I just have to remind myself that I am literally the only one who knows what people won't be seeing, and anyone who bothers to watch it will only be taking in what they do see.
That part, I would consider legitimately productive time spent, at least. I also logged films on Letterboxd while watching TV. I'm up to 782 films rated so far. This whole thing is going to take me some time.
When Shobhit got home from work, I stayed up late enough for us to watch this week's episode of
Reservation Dogs, which was by a wide margin the best of the season so far. Shobhit doesn't often do this, but even he said "That was a really well written episode" when it ended. Suddenly seeing Ethan Hawke, of all people, was a bit of a trip, and distracting for, like, thirty seconds. And then he's so excellent in it, he disappears right into the world of the show. It was great.
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[posted 12:35 pm]
