This kind of follows Am I the Laziest Writer Ever - Part I, if you're not too lazy yourself and you haven't done so already, go there first.
Can I risk being so lazy to not even use a picture? I challenge you to use your imagination, while reading this and hope you accept my challenge.
"When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath."
I wish I had come up with the aforementioned quote, but it was a Finnish filmmaker, Aki Kaurismäki, who once said this.
It could have been me though, on a day like today, or yesterday, where I have been sitting a lot and - racing brain or not - don't seem to generate a lot of creative ideas.
I will probably take a bath later, it's chilly and I can't seem to get warm today.
In fact, I am sitting in my studio, wrapped in a blanket, as I was about to buy a heater today, if I could find one, but the hardware store was closed
To get back to the quote, I like to think that I'm still not that old , my ripe age ( I am maturing like a good wine ) is merely the answer to the most important question in the Universe: 42
That is, if I need to believe The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book that I started reading a week or two ago.
I watched the movie adaptation of this scifi classic years ago and did not really like it but I might give it another chance and enjoy it more ( or not ), after having read the book.
To get back to this prolific Finnish filmmaker, I recently watched two short films of his ( as the only streaming website that I pay for, shows international arthouse cinema, with among it, at the moment, a career retrospective of this guy.
One of them was Rocky VI which has very little to do with the original Rocky movies, except that it talks about boxing and includes something not much resembling a fight, between a guy called Rocky ( who does not look like the original Rocky at all ) and a very stupid looking strong guy called 'Igor'.
Another short film of his, O Tasqueiro, 2012 that I watched days ago, takes place in Portugal ( where I have been living since 2018 ) and was therefore quite enjoyable a watch for me. It basically talks about the owner of an unsuccessful little tavern in an old Portuguese town.
Anyhow, this was not supposed to be a movie review but I studied film ( as you might know by now, as I tend to repeat this, reminding myself of 7 years wasted in University, accumulating debt and eventually bringing me to the world of cryptocurrencies and blogging ) and this just flowed out of me.
A nice thing about the films of Kaurismäki is that they are short, even his feature length films. Often shorter than 90 minutes.
He does not waste our time.
And I plan to do the same.
The laziest writer ever need his warm bath...
TO BE CONVINUED in PART II