Change Your Image
clairetaht
Fast forward to the early 2000s and Miss Claire enjoyed a moment of spoken fanaticism on the Jack E. Jett show, thanks to friend Chris Rentzel, but declined to make a new career in the greater DFW, Texas area when logistics proved much too dangerous.
In the mid-2000s, Miss Claire reinvented herself as dominatrix for Apex Driving Academy, wrangling students, instructors and the leadership team toward a more focused plan for the high performance driving school.
Currently residing in Southeast Asia, Miss Claire writes a scathing, anguished commentary on her web site, www.icequ.com, and pleasant, friendly letters to family and friends as she learns to grapple with expat conditions and a solitudinarian lifestyle.
Reviews
Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett & Sandra Bernhard (2005)
It's Not About Gay, It's About Gloves
Campy. Suggestive. Ridiculous. Almost, almost - anything goes. Get ready for maximum ridonkulusness as Jack splays, displays and plays with words, people and puns. He brings out the questions and the answers, he spools you up and pools the guests in some squidlike swirl of tentacles and tenaciousness, soaking up time and spilling out laughter along with relevance and ridiculousness.
I love Jack. I love what he did for the hysterical, whacked, wonderful world that tends to take itself way too seriously.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Sweet Eyes and Gratuitous Bloodiness
Spoiler alert: Mentions bloody gore featured in the movie.
Love Fassbender's amazing eyes, either tender and sweet or sick and demented. And then there is the gore, juicy bits squirting and making Tide stain remover a bazillion dollars.
Long story short, I watched this movie and then a warmhearted Redford flick right afterward. Gave me some perspective as to what is man, what is life, what is creation, and what the heck does it all mean, if anything? Which is, I think, the point.
Are we creatures or creators? Does it matter?
Loved the opening scene with quiet and open whiteness and all the questions. Loved the more involved drama scenes as they unfolded with blood and guts and stupid decisions that are so essential to the typical horror/sci-fi genre. Laughed at the youth of the crew - why would we send hormone-raging youngsters with no life experiences into space in order to conquer the unknown and set up a whole new world? Ah, because they look so good naked, right?
Well anyway, the Alien franchise moves forward with all sorts of different monsters and different reasons for each species, not the least of which is David and his god fantasies coupled with the crew and their Brave New World fantasies that include log cabins and lakes.
Watch this movie, remind yourself it's entertainment, and just let it be.
Our Souls at Night (2017)
If Only
Spoiler alert: mentions relationships essential to the theme.
If only it could be as easy as walking next door with a paper sack of fresh underwear and a t-shirt and crawling into the bed of an equally lonely neighbor...if only. While in real life we have Tinder and Hot or Not and whatever else is out there now, in this movie we have the person in the house down the street whose solitary existence matches our own and calls out for comradeship and cuddling.
Wipe away the probability that this beginning is a little unbelievable, and you'll be on board with the rest of the movie. Redford and Fonda glow on the screen, quietly and faithfully, with a pace that wears down the carpet, warms the heart and eventually works just fine.
It feels good to think of the possibilities, of finding another soul with whom we can connect even as we move ourselves toward the end of the light we have left. The candle flickers and we wait for ourselves to breathe, even as we imagine the light going out.