Pink! You've gone and painted it pink!

[squirmelia]

Saturday's Zokutou meet included writing a manifesto (and shouting out bits of it in Covent Garden) with eldar, verlaine, mcfie, and elvichar. We hung out at the ICA. Some lovely exhibitions there as usual, such as photos of two rather different towns in different countries, where all the bulbs in the streetlamps have been replaced by those from the other town. Saturday night, I ended up seeing a film - Adaptation.

On Sunday, verlaine and I scoured the streets of London for the pink tank that we'd seen a photo of the day before. After many chirping subways with flaking ceilings, the tank was found on a desolate piece of land on a street corner. It was still bright pink, barbified, but with moss growing on it, so we climbed it.

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Re: adaptation

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I thought it was okay. Like you, I expected more from it, so felt a bit disappointed.

I liked the orchid theme, having grown up in a very flower-dominated village, becoming too well-versed in flower names at an early age. (I have now forgotten these and like to think more in a Doug style way, about acts people do with flowers, so, despite the later propagation of ghost orchids, I was a little shocked at seeing them casually snip the flower away, but enough about flowers..). I also liked some of the passages from the book that were pretty, and also the general cleverness of it all.

So, hmm, I liked it, I didn't hate it, but I expected so much more from it. Although I do think you might be right about that character, we may all be like him, and that is a bit disturbing.