We watched The Squid and The Whale last weekend in our rainy-day-watch-a-thon, although really I watched it on the last day we had the movies, because we rented too many (4) and I’ll be damned if I rent a movie and don’t watch it. So really, I watched it on Tuesday. Good review so far, right? Okay, here we go:
Holy cow was this a good movie. Horribly painful if you have been divorced, or are a child of divorce, or can spell the word D-I-V-O-R-C-E. But painful in a good way. The imdb tagline and quote from the movie says it all: “Joint custody blows”. Directed by the guy who did “The Life Aquatic”, it’s semi-autobiographical of the director’s experience of his overeducated parents’ divorce and subsequently overthought joint custody arrangement. Cool indie flick, I recommend it.
Oy, that was lame. Really I just wanted to let everyone know that they should watch that movie. Capote was good, too. PSH def. deserved the Oscar for that performance.
I gotta get to bed. G’night.
I’ve been (sorta) tagged by Eck and Grumble, so here are my Four Things:
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Temp Extraordinaire
2. Ayurvedic potion mixer and all around go-to gal
3. Book store vixen
4. Pet shop poop cleaner-outer (for one day, anyway)
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Princess Bride (natch)
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Rear Window
4. Gone With The Wind
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Albuquerque, New Mexico
2. Boulder, Colorado
3. Allenstown, NH (just a few short, freezing months)
4. Chelmsford, MA
Four TV shows I love:
1. My Name is Earl
2. The Office
3. House
4. The Daily Show
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. In a bathtub built for two with my sweetie
2. Ogunquit, ME
3. On an art historical tour of Italy
4. At an all day spa with a free coupon booklet
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. N’Awlins
2. Vegas, Baby!
3. Jamaica (with my mom and little brother, how weird is that?)
4. the woods (as kids, we camped a lot)
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Toasted italian sub, no onions, no hots, with oil
2. the Buddha roll at Osaka in NoHo
3. bacon wrapped filet
4. every single thing I ate in New Orleans.
She can’t possibly live without it
Also, if you really loved her, you would get her this, too:
from fussy.org, size 2T.
I know I am late to the game with all of this, but did you know Brokeback Mountain was sad? I didn’t know it was sad, and I watched it last night and I am still melancholy. It started out well enough, hot men making out with tight jeans on, then— it got sad. I am blue.
And now, a word from our sponsor:
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I don’t know what that word means, but Otter says it all the time. Seems to be a catch all word, might mean “paper” which also means “crayon” *and* “marker”. It might sort of mean “diaper”, but is also repeated over and over while walking aimlessly through the house. Maybe it means “This house sure is messy. Clean this place up, will ya?”
Ever have one of those days where everything has *way* more steps to it than you think it should? Yeah, me too.
However, I did get to Google Kris Kristofferson.
Later…
Conversation with HH:
Me: Why do we like Battlestar Galactica so much? I think it officially makes us geeks. We like Monty Python, now this?
HH: We like Monty Python because it’s funny. I think we like Battlestar Galactica not for the sci-fi-y-ness, but because it’s interesting, it’s…
Me: Compelling?
HH: Yeah, compelling. That is some compelling shit. That shit *compells* my ass!
