two random things

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail is playing at midnight tomorrow at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema (Houston between 1st & 2nd); anyone who wishes to join me is quite welcome to do so; look for the guy in the black hat.

2) For various reasons, this quote from an old message board post about the movie Basket Case (please note: lots and *lots* of gory pictures behind link) amuses me more than it should:

"*The Bar scenes were shot in a S&M club in Manhattan which is now know as "The Hellfire Club". The bar was so big that they also used it as the Bradley's basement and the crew had to hide all the sex toys including a large swing (which is still in the club to this day). The original buzz saw used to kill Duane and Belial's father used to hang above the door of the club until it was eventually stolen.

*The Hotel Broslin doesn't actually exist, and the main lobby parts were filmed in a propped-open service elevator on Franklin Street, which is in the Tribeca section of New York. The scene at the end where Duane and Belial are hanging from the Hotel Broslin sign was actually filmed on an exterior building Downtown on Hubert Street, which is near Franklin Street. All the interior shots were done at several other locations, which were mainly friends' houses, etc.

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Velma updates:

Some time after Elise left, he asked me, "Is that Elise?" and "Is she coming back?" Both were very clearly enunciated; when I asked, "Do you want to talk with her?" he nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, yes, yes!"

Unabashedly romantic moment:

Tonight, for the first time in almost a week, when I asked him if he wanted music, he said, "Yes." Now, Gavin loaded his iPod with songs he knew Soren would like, songs he didn't think Soren knew, and "songs that will make [your] skin crawl." I asked Soren how he felt about Billy Squier's greatest hits, and got The Look once again; he approved of Sufjan Stevens, and when I went through the album titles, settled on Seven Swans, an album he thinks is magnificent.

He lay there, listening to the album and smiling. When the title cut came on, he started mouthing the words, and crying ... and all I could think of was the way he responds to music, the way he reacted to the Elliott Smith song the night I fell in love with him, and how this man, with his totally open responses to things that bring him joy, is the one I want to spend the rest of my life with.

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A particularly wide-eyed loris (rather like a lemur, for you connoisseurs of the smaller primates); I find it adorable.