I should be writing, but I am going to bed. I have enjoyed the responses to my last entry. I wish I could rattle of the word list from Vic as well as Rob does. Shew what a cache of talent we all have...
I am going to Philly tomorrow evening to visit my brother and to pick up a sink Drew and I bought on eBay. I am hoping we can use it in the new house. It is almost identical to the one we have in the kitchen now. I will catch up with everyone when I get back on Friday.
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Thursday, 3 July 2008
Man, it sure gets quiet around here quickly.
imaginary tumble weed rolls by, slowly
Rob, did you see a lot of tumble weed in Arizona? Did it only roll across the barren places or did it roll across neighborhoods as well? What is tumble weed? I saw it once on an episode of the Brady Bunch when they went to visit the Grand Canyon...
Inquiring minds want to know...
So many questions, Vicki!
The tumbleweeds that I know are weird plants that grow quickly during the "rainy" season. It's big and bushy and bright green. Lots of thorns, but it's soft and green, right?
Then the wind comes along and the bush easily separates from the root, and quickly dries out. Now it's brown, full of barbs, and is like cotton candy that's made of barbed wire. They grow in alleys, in the deserts, anywhere they can. Nasty stuff.
I remember those Brady Bunch episodes, as well. Didn't like them as much as the ones when they went to Hawaii and they found the cursed tiki idol, who wrought all kinds of destruction. Plus Don Ho co-starred, and it's hard to top Don Ho.
I don't even know what to say about the tiki idol picture Rob...
Thanks for the info - way more detail then I expected. I thought you would just send me a link. Thanks for the personal two cents. I hope to someday make it to Arizona...
My dream has been to rent an RV and drive across the US. Except in this dream, I am not the driver, I am the person sitting in the back of the RV checking out the sites. I am not good at long distance driving... maybe I will just have to fly there.
Gotta go. I am watching Jaws. Haven't seen it since it orignially came out...
HAPPY 4th all...
I am watching Jaws while fireworks are going off near me... talk about jump scenes... my heart is beating fast... I am sure I won't sleep tonight...
But wait... it's a Jaws marathon... Jaws II is on next...
hmmmm...
Saturday, 5 July 2008
I spent about six hours, today, in movie theaters. I saw Hancock (should've been an "R"), Wall-E (great), and The Happening (crazy-graphic). I, overall, liked all three.
It's funny: Hancock is getting slammed in reviews because he, essentially, STOPS becoming the drunken jerk and does the right thing. Boo! People want to see the super-hero as fallen, like everyone and everything else... boo, that he finds his moral compass.
Wall-E is getting slammed by some critics because it's too cerebral and no one can watch a cartoon without a lot of dialog. I guess the Coyote and Road Runner don't count, especially since they were only 3-4 minutes long and not preachy.
The Happening is getting slammed because there's no trademark M. Night Shyamalan twist at the end, and, as a woman at the end of the movie, today, said, loudly, "I want my money back! There were no monsters or twists or shit!" What a bold critique. I think it was less heavy-handed than his last one, The Lady in the Water, but not great.
Come home, and NetFlix has delivered my first disc of Season Two of Twin Peaks. Remember that? The weird, ambiguous, David Lynch written and directed television series? I can't explain it, but it's so bizarre and incomprehensible, I really like it! Oh: said "really," after saying I was trying to avoid it.
And still thinking about postmodernism. I remember reading Don DeLillo's "White Noise" while in grad school and remember a passage where the main character and his son are arguing about whether it's raining or not. To the father, it clearly was... rain was falling from the sky. To his adolescent son, it wasn't, as there was so much more dryness between the raindrops, so, in his reality, it wasn't raining.
AND, because this is so stream-of-consciousness, I've had that old, old (from 2002!) song "Pictures of Success," by Rilo Kiley, stuck in my head:
Build your own television receiver
Staying home can't be that bad for me
Because I'm not scared, but I'd like some extra spare time
Easily earn me big money
I'm a modern girl, but I fold in half so easily
When I put myself in the picture of success
I could learn world trade or try to map the ocean
When you're dead, in hospitals and freeways
When you're dead, in resting homes and clinics
When you're dead, it must be nice to finish
When you're dead
A busy week coming up, involving two trips to Harrisburg... 30,000 miles per year on my car... yikes... I think I'm going to try to plan my trips using the company car more often...
See y'all in church, eh?
You can use a company car and you aren't??? Why?
With the price of gas, I would drive a Yugo if the company was paying.
I made the mistake of watching 3 out of 4 Jaws movies last night. Didn't watch the final one - Jaws - the revenge. I was up until 4 am. I know - I'm nuts. Anyway I think I have my fill of those movies for another 30 years...
Thanks for the reviews Rob. I wanted to see Hancock. I really want to see WANTED - but, I heard it has a ton of swearing and with an R rating - I can only imagine what other garbage is in it. Even PG movies now-a-days can be risqué.
Gotta get back to work...
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Sandy, I think whenever you're going to be away for more than a day or two, you should assign a topic to discuss!
I realized, later last night, that my enjoyment of David Lynch, Twin Peaks in particular, is related to Hancock: Lynch's whole theme, in many of his movies, is that what appears to be safe, Americana, is really horribly unsafe and perverted, just under the surface. Twin Peaks appeared to be a simple, country logging town at first, and then the layers of weirdness just keep rising to the surface.
Why does this appeal to us, in general? Is it that self-righteous pride that "oh, other people are just as bad, or worse!, than I am" kind of thing?
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