ihavebeenfloated

So, I’m back in Chula Vista. I rearrange my room a bit and took two pictures so you can all see the marvelous place I live in, and what great things I have done with it, because it’s really quite fantastic, as you can easily see.

Keep in mind that in each of those pictures, I have the camera shoved as far into the opposing corners as I can go to capture as wide a picture as possible. Yes, you can finally see in this photo that my clothing (and my Polyphonic Spree robes) are hanging above my bed, which consists of a $50 foam Ikea mattress. It’s actually really comfortable considering I just spent the last 26 hours of my life in bed, completely wasting my entire goddamn day off. I’m rather pissed off about that, actually.

Also included in this post are some other pictures.

So, Bill and I went and saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on Tuesday, which feels like yesterday to me, as I slept through all of Wednesday and then some. It was quite good, I enjoyed it profusely. I would never have thought, sitting through Rushmore in theaters all those years ago, that a movie like this would be made several years later.

This is a different movie from Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Both of those sort of had the same feel about them, they were both hilarious and the jokes had a good amount of impact, and there was a very, very slight level of nastiness at the bottom of it all, almost completely undetectable. In The Life Aquatic however, this level of nastiness almost overpowers everything else in the film, although it’s masked very well. All the jokes have a very bitter edge to them, and the entire thing, although shot in standard Anderson pastels, feels much grayer this time around. This is a very dark and awkward movie when put in contrast to Anderson’s previous two films. It is more akin to Bottle Rocket in the ways it differs.

Regardless, this is still an excellent film, very funny at times in its awkwardness, and the emotional peaks of the film are honest and don’t feel cheap at all. If you’ve been following Anderson for a long time, (unlike you other hipster bastard poseurs!), this should be everything you expect from The Life Aquatic. If you’re a trend following ass, this will be your time to backlash because you’re a fucking wanker.

Thank you. I will take a bow, now.