Last night I watched Eastern Promises,starring Viggo Mortenson, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel and Sinead Cusak(but she was wasted in this part). It’s a movie about Russian Mafia and even more interestingly,their tattoos. David Cronenburg,the director, has been capable of great things in the past,i.e. the balletic choreography of the diner scene in A History of Violence where Viggo’s character defends himself from gangsters invading his small town. He is using Viggo again and again as a gangster who isn’t what he seems. Wait,that’s not quite right but if I explain it better I will give too much away.
In Eastern Promises(is that a clunky title or what) Viggo also has to fight off some thugs but this time he does it completely naked. For all of you who get steamed up thinking about Mr.Mortenson’s very well preserved almost 50 year old body,these scenes aren’t about beefcake so settle down. Men watching this scene will probably clench up as Viggo flies about nude with his dangly bits exposed in close proximity to knives.
Category: Personal Blog
New year and stuff
Finish what I start.
Be nicer(be more nice?).
See movies in theaters,instead of just on cable.
Take on more projects instead of endlessly tweaking the old ones so that I don’t have time to do new projects…see resolution no.1.
Fix all my old SEO mistakes.
Go to bed earlier.
Eat less red meat(I have a headstart on this one).
Drink more water.
See my friends more often.
See my dad more often.
I guess that is a lot…
But I’ve aimed low so that I can actually do it,except the be nicer one.I am a mean old lady.
Ditching your wardrobe.
I think I overdosed on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. I cleaned out my closets, getting rid of quite a lot of clothes. I really envied the women he advised being able to walk to their closets or dressers and pick out surefire outfits they knew looked good on them.I have never been able to do that and it pissed me off.I also don’t have any of the 10 things on the checklist they say every woman needs to have in order to be in style except one very tatty old cashmere sweater and a couple of black dresses.
After about 4 episodes I thinned my closet of all the clothes I had that I didn’t wear or that didn’t look good on me which left me with hardly anything to wear at all. This show ought to have have a warning label of don’t try this at home unless you have a 5,000 clothes budget to replace everything you just gave to charity (or bagged, meaning to give to charity).
I veered toward black,baggy clothes pretty much all my life (body issues) except while in art school. But I was thinner. For me, wearing colorful more body conscious clothes goes hand in hand with how thin I think I am. The bigger I feel the bigger and blacker the clothes I buy. It’s definitely time to lose 15 pounds. Easier said than done but my weight and the style of clothes I buy and wear go hand in hand. I really won’t like anything I try on until I lose a bit of weight.
So it seems I will put off really restocking my closet or else I will end up with just another batch of heavy black shrouds in my closet. Besides, now that it is winter all I need is a great new coat! A. is getting me one for my birthday.Yay.
First Sketch of Bozzio
We’ve had Bozzio for over 2 years but I’ve never drawn him before today.
I’m pretty rusty but I knew the sketch would go well as soon as I began drawing him.Sometimes you just have the feeling as soon as you make the first few marks on the paper that you won’t mess this up.
If only the model hadn’t gotten up and repaired to the other room before I was done.
That’s Bozzio’s morning routine and he sticks to it art or no art.