Current mood:

exhausted

Cloverfield and miscellany
So for the past several weeks we've had leaky plumbing in the bathroom. Walking on the tiles around the toilet causes water to seep up from underneath the floor. But in the past couple of days it's gotten so bad that we're keeping a pile of rags around the toilet and they're constantly soaked. Tonight I had to do some reading (to put it politely), so I stripped off my socks and rolled my pants up, so only my feet got soaked. After I came out, I mentioned to Tim what a mess it was becoming and he casually commented that he wasn't sure if the water was clean or "used".

Um.

In other news, I saw Cloverfield yesterday and can't stop thinking about it. FUCKING GREAT MOVIE, damn!!! I would have to say my top 15 list just got a new entry. Maybe even top 10, but I'll see how it replays before making that decision. One of the main criticisms of the movie has been its use of 9/11 imagery. That makes me wonder - where's the boundary between allusion and exploitation? The way I see it, we've had mass destruction many times before, but all the old disaster/monster movies got it wrong. As horrible as it is to think about it, we now know what happens when a building collapses in a large city, i.e. what the debris looks like, how crowds respond. Is it exploitive to use this information to portray such events accurately? Is it exploitive to depict a character's mom dying in the hospital if we've experienced that very thing (which I have not, thank God)?

Meanwhile, I'm currently distracting myself from finishing draft 4 of the script I've been working on since Clarion. I'm fucking exhausted. I just want to sleep. But the director's waiting for it. This is the part I love.