We did it for Barb Heimer...
Hello! Welcome back to my goofy little emails. I was off the last 2 weeks because I took my cat Lucy to the airport and that really took it out of me. That + I moved from NYC (after 8 years!) to Miami for copywriting school.
But, before we begin, let’s have a moment of silence, for her.
If you have been living under water for the last month, let me fill you in: the movies BARBIE & OPPENHEIMER hit theaters this past weekend.
And I did it, I saw the movie that people can’t stop talking about, the feminist, groundbreaking, hilarious, silly, campy masterpiece,…
ROMY & MICHELLE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.
This 1997 goofy female dumb and dumber is perfection. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes long which is the perfect length for a movie, (cough Christopher Nolan cough 3 hours is too long for anything cough.)
Alright, I also saw OPPENHEIMER & BARBIE.
Going to the movies in the suburbs hits!! (I call anything outside NYC the suburbs because I’m unlearning the propaganda that NYC and LA are the only places you can live in to be creative and cool, that’s bullshit and not true).
At the movies in NYC, you are usually in a chair that you paid $38 to sit in. In the suburbs, you sit on a big comfy couch and order chicken nuggets.
^ A BARBIE girl in a BARBIE world.
Here are my movie reviews that I didn’t even ask for:
OPPENHEIMER - Good, too long, too loud, about a horrific weapon that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Outrage from conservative dudes online? 0
BARBIE - A funny, happy, satire about a doll that says sexism exists, but in a clever way. Outrage from conservative dudes online? 487,000,000,000.
You’d think BARBIE assassinates every man on earth with brass knuckles (she doesn’t) from the incel outrage. It’s a movie about a doll, it’s fun, it’s smart, people need to calm down.
Anyway, I live in Miami now. My school doesn’t start till October, so I’ll be at Publix for the next 2 months.
Revelations thus far re not living in NYC: You can pay high rent but get what you pay for. A washer dryer IN my unit? Never had that before. I do now! I’ve been doing laundry in basements since I was 18. But now? I’m doing laundry like a college graduate and not a college freshman? Breathtaking.
Also, central AC > A window air conditioner that howls like a wolf all night.
Sorry NYC, you’re still undoubtedly the greatest in the world, but I really like having drawers in my bathroom and a kitchen counter. What it’s doing for my mental health cannot be ignored.