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Swiss Army Man, Stop Making Sense

6/9/2023

Both rewatches, watched 'em with some pals and my girlfriend.

Swiss Army Man

I have long been fatigued both of A24 films and of stories about insecure men but this one's a good time, esp. with people who haven't seen it
I like some of the jokes though and it took me back to when it came out
Paying more attention on this watch to the self-staged psychodrama. Like. This guy dresses up and plays the role of the woman he fantasizes about in order to date himherself vicariously through his corpse buddy. Yeah honestly the more I think about this the more interesting it is conceptually lol.
oh my god.... it's like..... do I want to be WITH her or do I want to BE her???? uwu
You know what came out around the same time as this and feels like it was in the same ballpark? The Lobster. I think that movie's better though
would recommend especially if you know nothing about it

Stop Making Sense

You gotta understand that this time of the night was when the edible really kicked in so I had a god damn religious experience watching this. I kept saying shit like "this is sex. You see how he just made eye contact with the drummer? That was INTERCOURSE." and "oh my GOD it's like a PRISM of LIGHT" (referring to the music) and "That was a JAM, that was like Simon and Garfuckyourself." The absolute glory of it. I couldn't stop grooving on the couch the whole time. When "this must be the place" came on I yanked my girlfriend to her feet to dance with her and said "you have to dance because this is a song about I love you."

It's so good. It's soooo good.

There's something about how David Byrne moves his body that makes me feel seen. Weirdo-core dancing. A kind of stage presence that doesn't feel easily reducible to masculine or feminine. He even looks sort of dykey when his hair's loose. It looks sort of like what happens when I dance. I usually get really self-conscious about my dancing, especially as a highly gendered activity. It's one of those things that feels to me way more high stakes than it really is. But what if I can't inhabit my body and the groove in a sufficiently binary-gender-conforming way??? What then??? Who cares, right, but I care. Maybe I need a big suit for my own healing

I got to an odd point in the night where I started getting kind of afraid of going insane or becoming psychotically terrified. It didn't happen, but it felt like the movie/music was like... pouring over its own boundaries and threatening to pull the rug out from under me in such a way that instead of tripping over I would just float away and never touch the ground again. It was a little scary but also thrilling. This must be what they mean when they talk about letting go and letting it happen; only my fear of giving myself away to the experience made it scary.

Tina weymouth looks so cute in this movie. It makes me wish I could have seen this / listened to talking heads when I was much younger so she could have been my bass guitar hero instead of Geddy Lee lol

Also I love the version of psycho killer with the drum machine. i love all the extended jamming they do. they made these versions so special for people who are used to the studio recordings.

Overall, 10/10. very sad that david byrne is breaking union contracts :^(

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