This is lovely!

High-Rise is great, but not for the faint of heart. Plenty of Hiddles nudity though.

Not to get all Dear Prudence on ya, but is this a reoccuring theme in your relationship or a one-off? Because if this dynamic repeats, and you feel like a "controlling killjoy" when you just want to know where he is, when you're both working on assignment away from home at night (which is reasonable), there's something up.

If it's just a rage of the moment, I hope a solid Viennese breakfast and some aspirin help out this morning and you kill your assignment.

Morning cocktails are in order - Sadiq's the new Mayor of London, Boris is finally friggin' out (probably to wreck destruction somewhere else, but give us this), Zac Goldsmith is crying somewhere, and the Tories might even slightly regret running a nasty, racist campaign.

This just about makes up for UKIP winning seats. Unlike seemingly everyone else, I'm not worried about the Labour losses in Scotland, they make total sense in context. I am worried about Labour continuing on with the in-fighting and ignoring the anti-Semitism issues they badly need to wrangle with, but none of that is news. #YesWeKhan.

You could totally be the next Nate Silver (who, while he is totally my type, is not exactly Ryan Gosling.) But even better, you can be you, writing the thing that only you can write so well, nailing your passion for the subject onto the page.

Prince would approve of that and 80s Prince would probably work it into a song lyric.

I have one of those accents and honey, beautiful is not the word, but bless you for trying.

(Bet the sweet tea was in Australia.)

Raining on my face over here.

YOU ARE 100000% CORRECT!

So the first one is about the economic disenfranchisement of the white working class male - think how The Kid was a football star who crapped out on his scholarship, didn't like wearing a tie - the various safety nets of privilege that he could expect began to loosen under him; he finds work in non-unionised under-the-table house building, in a part of the country particularly hit by the real estate bubble/collapse. How does the film show us just how bad is it for The Kid (and his cohort)? He is reduced to making money working in a role traditionally associated with women, and the exploitation/degradation of them*, a job that's a joke because of that association - and the double standard that's inherent in that is something the movie is very aware of (see: the famous Pony scene, and how it's a canny reversal of the Male Gaze. I doubt all that many directors would be familiar with the ramifications of Laura Mulvey's concept and how it's executed in cinema, but I'd bet my last titty-sweat-soaked dollar bill that Soderbergh is; and playing with gendered 'gazes' is a theme throughout his work - see sex lies & videotape)

When men are 'reduced' to the money they can generate from body's erotic capital and nothing else - we have a word for that: objectification. And we're so used to it happening to women that it's just part of the noise. But when it happens to men - esp. white dudes - that's a socio-economic indicator up there with defaulted mortgage rates.

Which is what's so feminist about it: telling the same story about women wouldn't work in the same way, because it's not remarkable. It's that it happens to the privileged group, the ones who aren't used to being judged on how they look, that assume they won't be written off as sexual playthings, who don't usually have to worry about maintaining upkeep on their erotic capital as they age.

*Not that strippers are necessarily degraded, by the way, or that The Kid and Mike don't have a huge amount of fun. But one is hustling, hustling, hustling his way to build something tangible, to get his share and be part of the structure of power he works in (which keeps slipping out of his grasp), and the other chooses oblivion.