This afternoon I take off once again for Chicago. This will be my summer. Home weekends, Chicago weekdays. One of the reasons I am leaving a little later is I thought my phone might arrive today. When I checked the AT&T Order Status page, it doesn’t show a tracking number and so I am thinking it may not have shipped as I assumed. Darnit.

Last night I watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I’ve been wanting to see the play for years but I never made it to NYC for a performance. When the film finally came out, I never made it to Philadelphia for a showing. Finally via Netflix I was able to catch it. Oddly enough it is very much what I expected and I really liked it. The music was fun and I loved all the East Berlin references. It reminded me of a movie I saw on IFC or the Sundance Channel a few years ago. A German man and his girlfriend illegally immigrate to America with no language skills or common sense. They imagine America is paved with golden roads and opportunities are at every corner. Somehow they manage to borrow some money from a bank to pay for a mobile home and a television set and they think life can’t get any better. That is until the bank starts expecting loan payments. Unable to speak English, they can’t really do anything. The girl becomes a prostitute for truckdrivers and the man goes to a deserted fair, gets on the Sky Lift, and blows his brains out with a rifle. It wasn’t an uplifting movie, that’s for sure. I can’t remember the name. I thought it was Woyzeck but that is a Herzog/Kinski film.