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2001-06-16 / 11:47 p.m. ~Television for women~
This was one of those days, one of those days where I wake up, tell myself all I will accomplish, all I set out to do, and then proceed to do very little of it. I did manage to leave the apartment, to get my movie tickets for the Summer Film Festival, and the day was beautiful, low humidity, big puffy clouds, lots of wind, quite nice, but I came home after the drive, thinking, Yes, what a nice drive, what a beautiful day. And proceeded to watch television for the rest of the day. How does this happen? This inertia after major energy? Was it the food? Was it eating sausage and couscous? Or was it watching my soap opera on tape? Was it a pause, a lapse in the overall momentum? Suddenly sitting turns to reclining, and a cat on my stomach, then the eyelids are heavy and yes, it's a beautiful day, and sure, I can vacuum later, wash dishes, yeah, all that, but wait, that movie about the woman whose friend takes pictures of her children, pictures construed to be child pornography, that "Snap Decision" is on......missed the beginning, but hey, this looks good. Wait, after that is the return of Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner acting together, in a movie called "Payback". How campy, I simply must watch just that movie too. It's Lifetime, after all, and isn't it still television for WOMEN? Yes, aren't these stories, movies, with relevance, meaning, to me? For me? I AM a woman, after all. Oh, then "The Big Sleep" is on.....have I seen that? Oh yes, looks familiar, but damn, Lauren Bacall was fantastically, ethereally BEAUTIFUL in this movie. Was this her first? Damn, have to watch this movie too. I love Bogie and Bacall, their chemistry just leapt off the screen - that scene where she's rubbing her leg, through her skirt, and he tells her to just go ahead and scratch it! That was hilarious! I wasn't expecting that. But the story, I couldn't pay attention, sleepy, it's pretty outside, but I'm lying on the sofa, with a cat, or two, one at a time, and I am sooooo sleepy, watching "The Big Sleep", and why's it called that anyway? So, I just close my eyes....just for a bit, and I sleep for two hours, waking here and there to change channels, find something more appropriate to sleep to. What a great day. But those World Stunt Awards are just silly, and then H. calls because she's alone in her house and she is scared - someone freaked her out at the bookstore, and she imagines he stalked her, followed her home, so I'm awake now, talking her down, chatting mindlessly, aimlessly, to make things okay. I disappoint myself, there's never enough time, but then there's nothing but and I blow it, sleeping, napping, luxuriously, decadently, like it's okay or something, like there's not a day out there, in here, a whole day, like it doesn't matter. And H. says it's okay, some days should be like that, like this one, some days are made for Lifetime and Turner Classic Movies, and sleeping on the sofa, with a cat or two, and don't feel bad, or guilty, it must mean I "needed" it, so it's justifiable. Right. That Mary Tyler Moore/Ed Asner movie was such garbage! Didn't they read the script? Come on! Cost of the War in Iraq
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