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On Friday the Hal Hartley movie The Girl From Monday arrived from Netflix. When I put it in my queue it was really just that it was a Hal Hartley film, and that, while I find them almost uncomfortably odd, I tend to like them anyway. The scene in Simple Men where the father's crazy, epileptic, Eastern European girlfriend does that wacky dance to Sonic Youth is simply priceless. I didn't bother to read the description... that this is a Sci-Fi film by Hal Hartley. Which is a mistake. He takes reality and twists it.... you can't start from a twisted reality and then twist... too much twisting. It felt like a low budget remake of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Which I suspect requires drugs for enjoyment. Something I also suspect of The Girl From Monday, (and yes, I get the whole subtext, I just found it too heavy handed... like an after school special gone horribly wrong). Instead, I let it drone on while I spent my Saturday being boring and cleaning my apartment and organizing my film archives and contemplating booby trapping that burgler easy access kitchen door.

On Sunday I went to the roller derby-- the playoffs. The season championship is next month. Sadly, the roller rink where the bouts have been held is being demolished by the park service, who just bought the land to build an indoor soccer... what? Rink? Field? You know what I mean. Not that soccer is sad... it's really one of the only sports I like to watch (ninety minutes, people. Ninety minutes. Why are American sports usually interminable?). But the rink reminded me of roller rinks where I skated to ELO and celebrated other girls' birthdays. Okay, the ELO part is less than pleasant, and I have really only the very very vaguest recollection of the plot of Xanadu, but I did have a certain nostalgic soft spot for Putty Hill. Apparently the championship will be held at a rink in Dundalk.

In the meantime, the Charm City Roller Girls have really honed their skillz the last couple of months. The bouts have gotten faster and the competition stiffer. I'm hoping to make it to the championship bout on the 17th... but it does make me wonder if the DC Roller Girls league is ever going to get rolling?