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I don't have a great deal to share today. Shobhit was at rehearsal most of the evening, which I spent watching the Guillermo del Toro film
Frankenstein on Netflix, and then quite some time after it writing my review, in which I spent an inordinate amount of time writing about how Jacob Elordi is way too hot to play The Creature.
Sean and Amanda on
The Big Picture podcast have spent a lot of time discussing how bad the special effects are in this movie. I wondered if I would have clocked that on my own without going in expecting it. I think I definitely would. The movie actually has redeeming qualities, but the special effects are not among them. They are truly terrible.
I did make chai for us both before Shobhit left. I barely had the time for it before he left, so I gave him his chai in a to-go cup. By the time he got back, it must have been shortly before 9:30. The movie is two and a half hours (at least half an hour too long) and then I probably spent more than an hour on the review. Shobhit asked if there were any shows for us to watch but I couldn't think of any. I did tell him he might like
Frankenstein even if I gave it a B-minus. There is near-frontal nudity on the part of Oscar Isaac, and Jacob Elori spends a lot of time on camera in little more than a sort of mummy-loincloth.
Shobhit took the Monorail downtown from Seattle Center before walking the rest of the way up Capitol Hill. He took a video of
the entire Monorail ride. He did it in vertical video, and I always prefer landscape, but converting this one took too much of the beautiful nighttime footage out of the shot. It's actually a very cool video.
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Shobhit had his dress rehearsal last night. It sounds like his short play is far more ready to go than any of the others, which I inagine is a credit to his taking on directorial duties. I actually helped him a few nights ago, looking up mp3s of sound effects he needed for the show.
Alexia and I have tickets to the opening night performance, which is on Friday. I may have to warn her that the other short plays are likely to vary widely in quality. At least tickets were barely more than twenty bucks, and it gives Alexia and me something to do together, while also supporting Shobhit. He's getting experience with local arts right now that he never got even before he moved to New York in 2010.
Shobhit finds it difficult to think things are going great no matter the circumstances. He's just too much of a pessinist. But I'm thrilled enough for the both of us. This current play, the one he's actually being in and directing being only about six minutes, is comparatively minor. But I will insist that his getting cast as the lead in
The Foreigner at the State Theater in downtown Olympia is a huge deal.
Tonight starts a new stretch of kind of a lot going on, or at least an unbroken string of days with plans: Action Movie Night at the Braeburn Condos theater tonight; Laney and I are seeing
The Running Man tomorrow night; Alexia and I are seeing the live performance at Seattle Center's Theater 4 on Friday night; Laney's coming over for a rewatch of the original
Avatar on Saturday. I have no social engagenents planned for Sunday currently but I do plan to go to a movie that day. At the moment, I have nothing planned for Monday evening. It'll be my mini vacation from my own calendar!
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