Help needed: major mold exposure

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I took my mom to see " Dersu Uzala " tonight, and unfortunately, the

Anthology Film Archives, despite the nobility of their mission, needs to be

condemned. It is officially the worst currently open movie theater I've

ever had the colossal misfortune to attend. Besides the dreadful

projection and pathetic sound, besides the hideous seating that seems

designed to cause kidney failure and spontaneous neck breakage, it's

extremely moldy. Obviously I should've listened to my wiser instincts and

bagged at the first whiff, but the film is so marvelous -- and I'd never

seen it on film, just on a fairly crummy DVD -- that I couldn't bring

myself to leave. I also didn't want to bail on my mom, since she's very

sick and she hardly ever gets to do something fun like see a movie.

So now I feel like I was run over by a tank. Interestingly, my nose and

lungs are doing pretty well. They're usually the first to go when exposed

to mold, but maybe the calcium d-glucarate I've been taking lately has

helped. Unfortunately, everything else is miserable. My eyes are

bloodshot, my throat is sore, I have a pounding headache, and my whole body

aches. I'm sure it didn't help any that I'd done an intense workout with

a new record number of squats shortly before going to the movie, and

yesterday's mysterious diarrhea was doubtless just one more nail in the coffin.

My question, therefore, is this: can any of you suggest ways to get back on

my feet in the shortest possible time? I'm drinking lots of water and I'm

going to have some chamomile tea (it's the best I could do as I have no

ginger and the small amount of ginger juice I have is old and never

should've been dignified by the name in the first place) but I don't know

what else to do.

Any help would be much appreciated, but I can't afford to go on any kind of

fast or debilitating cleansing routine at the moment. I have a lot of

writing to do and it all has to be done yesterday, or better yet a couple

years ago.

Incidentally, if you ever get the opportunity to see " Dersu Uzala " ,

do. It's the best Kurosawa film I've ever seen, and I think I've seen most

of them. It's mostly unsung and unknown because he went to the USSR to

film it back in '75, but it did win the Academy's Best Foreign Film

in 1976, and I'm sure deservedly so. Rather than wear myself out any more

and delay the shower I'm about to take to wash off as much mold as I can,

I'll just give you Netflix's description.

>A party of Russian soldiers hires aged hunter Dersu Uzala (Maksim Munzuk)

>to guide them on a surveying expedition through Siberia in the early 20th

>century. Uzala leads the group through life-threatening conditions with

>reverential wisdom and concern for his surroundings. Based on true

>memoirs, Akira Kurosawa's Academy Award-winning production is a testament

>to the value of lasting friendship, loyalty and mutual respect.

It should be fascinating for anyone interested in traditional living and

that domain of history, and it also has one of the most beautiful

treatments of friendship I've ever seen on screen. Some of the creeps in

the audience seemed to think the bond between Uzala and Arseniev (the

captain of the Russian explorers) was hugely funny (is any affection

between men taking as gay and a sign of weakness? I can't think of any

other explanation) but never mind that. The pace is slightly meditative at

times (not a problem in my book, but viewer be warned) but the scenery and

cinematography are magnificent, the writing and direction are exquisite,

the acting is fantastic, the story is immensely moving, and I can't

recommend it highly enough, even if you have to watch it on Image's

mediocre and non-anamorphic DVD, which is, as I mentioned earlier, is

available at Netflix and well worth renting.

OK, into the shower now for real, and TIA,

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