Oops…

This week’s viewing ended up being a real train wreck.

I just started working on another feature film called The Darker Path. It’s another shoot with a six-day workweek. Granted this one is in town so I get to sleep in my own bed, but the days are longer and there is a bit of a commute, so pretty much my time at home is only meant for sleep.

This Sunday… September 22nd was my first day off. I got home at 7:30 in the am and I had to be back on set at 8:00 in the am on Monday the 23rd. This meant I had to fit two sleep cycles within a 24 hour time period.

I decided to say, “fuck it,” and stopped at the grocery store to buy buffalo chicken nacho fixin’s and enough booze for two drinking cycles in case I wasn’t able to pull off the all-nighter I was planning.

Again, this was the first 24 hours I had to myself so I didn’t want to waste a minute of it.

Right away I started on the drinks and nachos.

There's something that I love about starting to drink on a Sunday morning hours before most people even begin to think about getting out of bed.

As the food sat in the oven I sat at my computer trying to think of my angle for this week’s review.

That is when I fell into a YouTube hole where I watched a video of the Olsen twins singing about pizza, $5 Dollar Wrestling, that crazy Chipotle commercial, and a video of cats knocking shit off of tables.

I’m kind of fuzzy on all the steps that lead to this, but I was well fed, medicated enough to watch cat videos, and had enough blood of Christ running through me that I thought it would be a good idea to listen to a Book of Revelations audiobook that I found while in that YouTube hole.

I remember having memories at the time.

Being that Southland Tales is supposed to be a retelling of the Book of Revelations I figured I would take notes for things to look out for when I watched the movie.

I don’t know if it was the bible talk or the booze, but I failed so hard at cyphering this tale of the end of days.

I did wake up to some notes!

(So you know I usually have a good memory so my note-taking handwriting is super sloppy and my notes usually consist of keywords and sentences meant to trigger the memories that I need.)

Let’s see if you can figure out where I blacked out!

• I am alpha and omega, the fist, and the last. (I wonder if this has anything to do with, “I am a pimp and pimps don’t commit suicide?)

• 7 candlesticks… 7 stars… 7 angles… 7 churches… (There sure are a lot of 7s in this book. I guess I’ll have to start counting things in Southland Tales.)

I have no idea what these pages of notes even mean.

• Eating of the tree of life.

• These things say is the…

• But now are rich.

• Half an ear.

• Many.

• A name.

• Jesse is of a potter.

• I wilt come on thee like a thief.

• I will not block out his name.

• Ear talk again.

• New Jerusalem.

• Shut it (not sure what words I wrote here) and open (more illegible handwriting.)

• New Jerusalem.

• New name.

• Lay autisians (?)

• Thou aren’t cold nor not blah, blah, blah.

• 14:38

• 7 is a big deal.

• Lots of beasts… not one 6 headed beast…

• There’s a Book of the Power

• There are four elders and four good angels… or something.

• Redhorse = red ball.

• Four Horsemen four colors of orbs.

• All the powerful cowards hid.

• There’s some kind of sensor.

• The angels kind of reminded me of the UPU officers.

• Key to pit… open pit.

• Don’t hurt green.

• Angel trumpet.

• (It looks like) Folar angels.

• We’re on chapter 9, I see no connection maybe I don’t get the language.

• Space.

• Opondoth (?)

• Give me the little book…

I can’t read my own writing at all anymore.

• (Something, something, something) revelations ad transcribed it, liked it.

• (A bunch of illegible words that have been crossed out.)

• Right hand.

• The dragon man child.

• 7 headed dragon.

• Dragon was going to devour a child… Mandy Moore’s?

• Don’t see a seven-headed dragon… unless Booger belongs to the seven head.

• The man child Seann William Scott?

• Is BOR

• He stood on sand, sand maze beast no beast (a word that looks like gnovells.)

• See an should go here but now (? That’s what it looks like, but I know that’s not what it says.)

• He that kills with sword killed by sword.

So that’s apparently what I thought about the Book of Revelations.

I’m not fully sure whether or not I made it through the whole reading, but when I woke up at 7:30 in the pm I fired up Southland Tales without any memories of what I was supposed to keep an eye out for.

So even though I failed to put together a coherent, researched review, whether or not I gain any new insights for the film, Southland Tales’ viewing days have become the most fun/eventful day of the week for me.

I have a feeling next week’s review is going to be just as rushed. I’ll be just as exhausted and at a loss for what my angle will be, minus time to do the reviews that I really want, but I also know that I’ll figure something out, and I’m sure it’ll be fun.

Can’t wait to see what happens!

See you then.