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I don't know if I just haven't been paying attention in past years or if this is indeed a new thing, but it seems like distributors, or studios or whoever it is who decides these things, has chosen the Friday of the weekend before Pride as the "Queer Movie Release" date. Given how good the couple of movies I've seen this past week have been, I'm here for it.
(It seems worth clarifying that all of June is Pride Month. But, the last Sunday in June, for most major cities, is the day of the Pride Parade, and most Pride events happen that weekend, certainly here in Seattle—we have Capitol Hill Pride Fest on Saturday and Trans Pride on Sunday. So this year, June 19 strikes me as the most ideal release date for "Pride" or LGBT-related movies; it's close to the middle of the month and provides a window of about a week for movie-going before we're all busy with all those other weekend Pride events.)
Two such movies opened the same day this year, on June 19: the fantastic Australian gay horror movie
Leviticus, which I saw on Friday itself; and the teen lesbian romantic drama
Girls Like Girls, which I did not think was quite as good but still really moved me, and which was the movie I saw last night.
It's always weird to me to refer to "last night" around the time of the Summer Solstice, or indeed through most of the summer, because nearly anything I could have gone out and done through the evening would still have occurred, start to finish, during daylight. I left the theater yesterday at probaby 6:45 and it was still plenty light out, hours until dusk. "Sunset" is listed for Seattle tonight at 9:11, and I believe that time stamp is for when the sun goes down beyond the horizon, which leaves still another hour or so before it is fully dark. This has always been the one major downside to the 4th of July Fireworks in Seattle to me, because they never actually start until 10:00 p.m. Very inconvenient when you are working the next day. This year though we are treated to a 4th on a Saturday; next year it will be on a Sunday with "Independence Day Observed" on Monday, so I won't have to worry again about working the next day until 2028.
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Anyway! I walked home, wrote my movie review. Shobhit had made homemade French fries to have leftover chili from what he made for the cookoff at CC's on Sunday. We have a whole other tray of it in the freezer that we'll soon want to thaw out and then bring for Action Movie Night tomorrow. We have a bunch of taco shells at home so we decided last night that what we'll bring this week are Veggie Chili Tacos. I very much like this idea.
Shobhit wanted to go pick up a few things at QFC after I was done writing, and we decided to walk, to the one on Broadway and Pike. I'm still dealing with some tightness in my abdomen, complicated by gas pains, when I walk, especially in the hard-flat sandals I've been wearing (they are just so much more comfortable otherwise, than shoes would be in this heat).
Today marks four weeks since the accident, as it happens. I have two weeks left in my prescription not to ride my bike for six weeks, and it kind of feels like my recovery has sort of plateaued; I hope there's a noticeable difference between now and two weeks from now. Either way, my Thursday evening is open this week, so I have reminders set to do laundry
and take my bike to the bike shop to have them look it over and check to make sure nothing looks dangerously out of whack.
I also have a reminder the same day to make a card for Tess's graduation party. We've got a lot going on this weekend, and particularly on Saturday, because, as I noted above, it's Pride Weekend. I have between two and three events to cover each day between Friday and Saturday: Trans Pride at Volunteer Park and the "Pride Match" in Pioneer Square on Friday; PrideFest Capitol Hill on Broadway, the Indigiqueer Festival on Pier 62, and Tess's graduation party in Federal Way on Saturday; then the Pride Parade and PrideFest Seattle Center on Sunday. And that's assuming we don't add anything
more to all of that, which could happen! (It did last year.) Between all this, plus Tacoma Pride in July and Alki Beach Pride in August, I'm set to have a 10-album collection of photo albums for Pride by the end of the summer.
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[posted 12:33pm]
