One day, one day it will all make sense

Soooo, halfway through Project: Chill the Fuck Out and things are going terribly well. Spent twenty-eight glorious hours in Brighton with plumsbitch, the hostess with the mostess. Finally saw Jubilee Library with my own eyes and went weak with my own knees. I had to force myself to stop going round stroking everything because it was such a wonderful place. This is what you can do when you are able to build a purpose-built library, rather than be forced to make use of an existing building. I never visited Hove Library but it looks to be much in the same situation as where I work, I'll be interested as to what the public and staff feel once it's refurbishment is done.

(A short way down the road are these people. Why do people waste arson equipment on the Old Pier?)

Tuesday night we watched Kinsey and now I'm going to have to find that biography of the man that (IIRC) some_fox recommends. What I wasn't prepared for was how sad it was, as most of testimonials are unhappy stories of ignorance. Although John Lithgow as Kinsey's awful father isn't a particularly well-developed character the scene where he is interviewed by his son is wrenching. It's only with the last interviewee, a cameo by Lynn Redgrave, who tells Kinsey that his research and work gave her the courage to tell her best friend how she felt which allowed them to have a happy long term relationship, that any note of hope really comes through. Although the characters aren't always well developed (after a couple of scenes in which Kinsey treats his son almost identically to the way his father treated him the son then vanishes from the rest of the movie without a word, after the marriage of one of his researchers the frank sexual talk of Kinsey's team unsettles the young bride, as though she'd had this whole developing relationship with her husband without once finding out what he did for a living) the actors are all wonderful and does finish by denying the usual conventions of these biopics of driven people.

Back up to London on the train, for some reason it comes in via Elephant and Castle rather than London Bridge, adding more time to the journey, but it did mean I bumped into zenith at Kings Cross.

Anyway, tonight I intend to go to this, though as much to meet a friend who I haven't seen for over ten years as to hear the actual discussion. Tomorrow will probably be spent in some kind of lounging around capacity while Saturday is Tate Britain with the parents. I'm not sure about Sunday yet, it'll probably have to depend on the weather.