Today begins by searching Amazon Prime for movies they share with Netflix on demand. They do not share as many as I would like, and no National Geographic or Nova, which sucks.
I found one! Hazzah! Between the Folds a documentary about origami. The first guy they talk to, Micheal, makes his own paper and seems to have an almost sexual attraction to folding paper. Wow, Eric is a French artist, and his art is amazing. He folded a pine cone out of one five foot sheet of paper, which is a sentence I just can’t wrap my head around. Seriously, the patience the people who do this is amazing…and all about math. Hence the reason I don’t do origami. J Ok, so my initial reluctance to this movie was wrong, they managed to make math and paper interesting. Give them an Oscar, stat!
Next, is 180® South about a guy who decides to follow the route two old guys did in the 70’s to get to Patagonia. Now, here is my problem with this movie. It’s about rock climbers. For some reason, this is the specific brand of hipster that I just want to smack in the face. So, this movie might be good, but it is like nails on a chalk board. This movie also drags, because they are trying to make it beautiful, and succeeding, but it is like “OK! I got it! You surf and climb mountains! Stop showing me your vacation video!” Why do I hate rock climbers/surfers? Because they seem to make it sound like it is a calling “I just have to master the wave/rock”, but both sports are pretty much restricted to wealthy folks. So watching a movie about a white guy who decides to make a movie about his summer vacation, a vacation that he takes for six months is just annoying to me, because at this point in time it is impossible for me to do, just like it pretty much always has been. Although the idea of just taking off to go live in a cabin in Chile and say fuck it to my credit report does sorta sound nice…let’s go rock climbing!
I bailed on the docs for today, instead I am watching a movie where Ed Norton (he is a boy-crush of mine) plays two parts. It’s good, funny. About a guy that goes home after his
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