I'm quarantined in essence from work, which has meant so far that I've done no work and my plans of weaning myself off twitter have been stillborn. I've been at home for 2.5 weeks recovering from surgery and am now going to continue to kick around here indefinitely. I ducked out of contact early yesterday to go see this Olivier Assayas movie Irma Vep, mostly because I really loved his Clouds of Sils Maria.
The movie is fun and cynical but becomes something very different a few times throughout and especially at the end. It's also got this unselfconscious 90s vibe (it was released in 1996) that makes for me what would otherwise be a pretty cold production, extra vivid. The first minute plus of this video is not remotely representative of the rest of the movie, but it's badass and certainly representative of this tiny bit of the movie.
The sonic youth song in the above clip has it's own video which is about Karen Carpenter (a love of mine).
The above song and video surely must have been inspired by Todd Haynes's Superstar, which is just brutal. Not much to say that hasn't already been said about it though
Sonic youth have also done a scuzzdream cover of Superstar, but my favorite Carpenters song is On Top of the World which I used have my go-to karaoke song back when I was yearning the hardest for some sort of feminine normalcy. I still yearn for it, but with less urgency, which is a shame
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