Journal entry by Matthew Everett —
Rookie mistake, I checked my email and then got sucked down the rabbit hole of busy work for Threshold Theater just now. I did at least resist doing a full deep dive and just rapidly responded to some key things that needed to get in front of other eyes for finalization sooner rather than later.
Meal prep, laundry, change the bed.
Short shift at the Guthrie mid-day.
Wrote some cards and notes for Ursula, at least.
But I need to start factoring in real time for cleaning the house (reclaiming the guest and writing rooms), getting scripts out the door, seeing and reviewing theater again on the regular, rebuilding the website, and, you know, actually writing.
Given that one of the shorts I'm writing has a person obsessed with pro-wrestling, which I am not, I did quick watch two YouTube reactors I admire watching and responding to "The Iron Claw" - I don't have the emotional reserves to watch the whole thing all by myself, but getting clips for key elements of the plot, plus one of the reactors on YouTube actually was a big pro-wrestling fan themselves (quite unexpectedly) so they had useful background and context. I'd watched a documentary video on the real life family this movie was based on and, wow. Yikes.
Also, two suicides in the movie, three in real life (they apparently left out a brother for consolidation purposes in the movie). Also, borderline romanticizing suicide in both instances. Not sensationalizing it or being tacky, it was artfully handled, but that almost made it more unsettling that it wasn't the terrible mess it actually is in real life. The reunion of the brothers in the afterlife, the regaining of lost limbs, was all a bit much. Again, a lovely scene, but when I sit with it... person blows their brains out, they're gone. That's it. Blackout. No gauzy, sunlit reunions. You could argue that it was the living brother imagining a peaceful crossing over for his fallen sibling but... slippery slope.
Determined to have at least a few pages for tomorrow's meeting, even if that means I don't get to guitar until after the meeting.
Off to work on that now a bit before bed, so I'm not starting from zero tomorrow...
Meal prep, laundry, change the bed.
Short shift at the Guthrie mid-day.
Wrote some cards and notes for Ursula, at least.
But I need to start factoring in real time for cleaning the house (reclaiming the guest and writing rooms), getting scripts out the door, seeing and reviewing theater again on the regular, rebuilding the website, and, you know, actually writing.
Given that one of the shorts I'm writing has a person obsessed with pro-wrestling, which I am not, I did quick watch two YouTube reactors I admire watching and responding to "The Iron Claw" - I don't have the emotional reserves to watch the whole thing all by myself, but getting clips for key elements of the plot, plus one of the reactors on YouTube actually was a big pro-wrestling fan themselves (quite unexpectedly) so they had useful background and context. I'd watched a documentary video on the real life family this movie was based on and, wow. Yikes.
Also, two suicides in the movie, three in real life (they apparently left out a brother for consolidation purposes in the movie). Also, borderline romanticizing suicide in both instances. Not sensationalizing it or being tacky, it was artfully handled, but that almost made it more unsettling that it wasn't the terrible mess it actually is in real life. The reunion of the brothers in the afterlife, the regaining of lost limbs, was all a bit much. Again, a lovely scene, but when I sit with it... person blows their brains out, they're gone. That's it. Blackout. No gauzy, sunlit reunions. You could argue that it was the living brother imagining a peaceful crossing over for his fallen sibling but... slippery slope.
Determined to have at least a few pages for tomorrow's meeting, even if that means I don't get to guitar until after the meeting.
Off to work on that now a bit before bed, so I'm not starting from zero tomorrow...
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