remarkable 2: first use / impressions

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I've had the reMarkable 2 for about half an hour now (writing this on it) and three things are apparent: one, my handwriting is shit in physical or in digital form and I'm really glad I bought the TypeFolio - keyboard is quite excellent (though I'm still getting used to the layout); two, while I can see me using this for writing drafts and braindumps (like this one - indeed, I bought it as a replacement for whiteboards and legal pads), I can't yet see it replacing my paper journals (UPDATE: SEE COMMENT BELOW)); and three, the design for lefties like me leaves a bit to be desired: I have to write with it set up for a right-handed person because my left hand constantly hits the x on the top left corner of the screen and closes the doc in progress (UPDATE: SOLVED; SEE COMMENT BELOW). Other than that, no complaints; have a feeling that the more I work with it the more I'll find to do with it. Will update accordingly.

BATMAN FOREVER (Schumacher, 1995)

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(Directed by Joel Schumacher from a script by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldsman; starring Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle. Released 16 June 1995; (re)watched 2023w28 via Max.)

While Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey still grate on the nerves (it did help, somewhat, to think of them as multiversal iterations of The Joker who happened to collide in this universe) and Nicole Kidman had to make the most of an under-written and -utilized role (she did, after all have to follow Michelle Pfieffer’s legendary Selina Kyle), FOREVER is far more excellent than I either a.) remembered or b.) let the bad taste of its sequel let me remember: amidst an intriguing psychological drama seasoned with cool Bat-jumps from tall buildings and a great car wrapped in something of a prescient story surrounding The Riddler's Apple Vision Pro, the Gotham of FOREVER – I view Schumacher's films to be in their own little universe, separate from the Burton-verse, this great fan trailer and Hamm's BATMAN '89 comic showing us how amazing a Hamm-penned, Burton-directed Billy Dee Williams Two-Face could have been – conjures a cyberpunk BATMAN: TAS channeled through the mind of Grant Morrison and the pencil of Kelley Jones (a pairing which MUST happen at some point), set to the kaleidoscopic music of Eliot Goldenthal's circus-meets-Elfman's-DICK-TRACY-score, and protected by the only cinematic Batman that I can imagine not only needing a Robin – Kilmer's Bat should serve as inspiration for the Gunn-verse's THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD – but surviving a fall from space (as the comics version did several months back in Zdarsky's excellent run). You may fully count me among those who wants to see the mythical Schumacher Cut: it's no masterpiece, but FOREVER is something special whose full canvas deserves to be seen. This one was a joy to revisit.

three things i did today that i rather enjoyed

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  • Made moss poles for K's philodendrons by cutting up PVC pipe with my new Japanese pull saw which I absolutely love. Have all fingers.

  • Ran in my usual 5k circle and midway through chatted with Randy the Chihuahua's human (RTCH) who informed me that Randy the Chihuahua (RTC) had to be put to sleep in January as I handed RTCH his newspaper and we shared a brief "aw damn" moment. Not sure that "enjoyed" is the right word here but it was definitely a human, empathetic moment. I'll miss that little shit (RTC).

  • Read the first issue of Ryan North and Iban Coello's FANTASTIC FOUR and got hooked. Excellent, excellent stuff.

links/2023w27

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