The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

The titles I’m throwing around for this poem, which is as done as it’s going to get, are At The Door and Diagnosis. It’s not my favorite, but I can’t work on it any further. Can’t write a winner every time, so I’m accepting this one as a bit of a dud.

There are many, many movies I have seen more than five times. I probably have not watched entire TV series that many times, but there are some I have watched more than twice. The Leftovers, Jericho, Happy, Arrested Development, Peep Show, and Preacher come to mind as a few TV series I have seen more than once.

Here are three of my favorite movies. Overall I have more than three favorite movies, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind in this moment:

1. The Fall – A passion project of Tarsem that was entirely funded, written, and directed by him. Sometimes that can spell disaster when a person does everything themselves without anyone to check them, but in this case the movie is spectacular and completely unique. Something that wouldn’t have gotten made any other way. The story follows a little girl in 1911 at an LA hospital. A fellow patient who is paralized tells her bits of stories to try and coerce her to steal him morphine from the pharmacy, promising to tell more of the story if she brings him the pills. The movie splits between the girl’s imagination as she is told the story, and real life at the hospital. It was filmed at locations all around the globe (to provide breathtaking settings for the child’s imaginary world) and purposefully has no CGI in it.
2. Aniara – I watched this recently so it is in my thoughts. It’s an incredibly bleak movie that just ends in utter hopelessness. A transport ship between earth and mars is permanently stranded in space when it gets knocked off course. The people on the ship struggle to survive in an increasingly depressing reality. It’s a quiet movie from beginning to end, but incredibly effective in the way it slowly follows the entire ship’s descent into a sort of resigned madness. Not a movie for the faint of heart.
3. Gentleman Broncos – A movie by the creators of Napoleon Dynamite. My husband and I watch it once a year. We personally love it, despite it being utterly panned, and it’s one of our favorite movies. It follows a young writer who goes to a youth camp for aspiring science fiction authors. He submits his manuscript and a teacher, struggling with writer’s block, steals it and publishes it under his own name. If you liked Napoleon Dynamite, I don’t see how this movie is any different from that same type of humor. In my opinion it is the better movie. I would probably be stoned for expressing this opinion in some circles, but I stand by my conviction.

To-Do-List

1. Up, brush dog’s teeth, water plants
2. Write poem, draw
3. Get exercise clothes on
4. Run 2 miles
5. Dressed/shower/wash hair
6. Therapy appointment
7. Lunch
8. Walk dog
9. Recycling and garbage
10. Cook dinner
11. Read 2 chapters of my book, meditate for 20 minutes, play video game, and do Instagram (follow 7 new people)