Some updates on stuff going on ( Read more... )

My back is sore. I took the day off yesterday, and spent a decent chunk of it pressure-washing the pool deck. Which involves stooping over slightly most of the time, and I am feeling it today. Hell, I was feeling it while I was doing it! I really need to work out more. I'd started running around the block a couple times a week, but I've fallen off ( Read more... )

So my reading material lately has been Raymond Chandler novels. I'm a big fan of noir in literature and film, and especially private detective stuff. I read pretty much all of Dashiell Hammett's novels and stories (Sam Spade and the Continental Op were his main characters--The Maltese Falcon was his, and if you've ever seen the Coen brothers' ( Read more... )

Watched/read a few things lately that I wanted to note and review, but maybe not so in-depth. So:

Leon: The ProfessionalThis has been on my to-watch list for ages--actually I'm sort of amazed I never watched it since it dates back to 1994! It's a Luc Besson film about Leon, a somewhat enigmatic and solitary hitman in New York City. He finds ( Read more... )

I never think to post about what I'm reading, but now and then I see posts of what people have read in the past year, and I think how cool it would be to do that. So I'm going to start keeping track of that, I think. Maybe movies, too. To go along with this plan, I am totally and unashamedly ripping off goblue and instituting a new 64-point rating ( Read more... )