everyone who pretended to like me is gone
Music good. There are few things in life more satisfying than buying a new CD and discovering that it is, in fact, godlike. Besides the new Walkmen disc (which is tickling my eardrums as I write this), I also dropped way too much money on the Cure B-sides box set. But oh what a pleasure it will be to listen to that.
I think it's pretty interesting how some people are miffed about the Oscar nominations. "They're all critics' movies," they whine. So what's the alternative? Bad Boys II? The Medallion? (This isn't directed at Cold Mountain fans, by the way. I think they may have a point in thinking it should have been nominated for Best Picture. It wasn't one of my favorites, but I certainly think it was better than both Seabiscuit and Master and Commander. I just tease Mandi about it because it's fun to tease Mandi.) Roger Ebert has a great essay on his site at the moment claiming that for the first time in a long time the Academy voters got it right. I agree, and state again that the people who don't "get" Lost in Translation or Mystic River (or who didn't see them at all and still complain about them being nominated, which is just plain dumb) need to step out of the multiplex a little more frequently and see something of merit. Would it kill you to see In America instead of You Got Served?
Miscellany:
1) I won Kevin's "Name My Song" contest, mainly because I was the only one who voted.
B) I'm not returning my crappy full screen version of Lost in Translation to Wal-Mart in exchange for the wide screen version. I decided that life is too short to worry about something like that. Plus I lost the receipt.
4.5) The newspaper actually came to take pictures of the play today. The photographer kept asking me to explain who the characters were, which in this play is only slightly easier than explaining quantum physics.
XII) If I could have any super power, it would be to instantly iron my shirts by twitching my nose.
5a-7) DeAnna and I went to two thrift stores today and discovered that the men of the Morongo Basin like to hang onto their winter coats, but give away their crutches and skis without a second thought.
Pi) Damn, this CD is good.
23%) Bush calls today's same-sex marriage ruling in Massachusetts "troubling" and says he wants to "preserve the sanctity of marriage." Egads. In a country where the divorce rate is hovering around 50%, where there are reality television shows devoted to finding a spouse, and where unwed mothers pop babies out like broken gumball machines, where does the sanctity part come in? If two people love each other, why does anyone else think they have the right to deny them their happiness? And if God really does frown on it, then let God sort it out later, fer cryin' out loud.
a<10-5) My horoscope, according to The Onion: "Jesus will finally speak to you this week, but His message of love will contain such filthy language that your faith will be shaken forever."
1...3...5...?) You haven't lived until you've heard two teenage girls belching over a headset. It's truly magical.
10) I heart you.
I think it's pretty interesting how some people are miffed about the Oscar nominations. "They're all critics' movies," they whine. So what's the alternative? Bad Boys II? The Medallion? (This isn't directed at Cold Mountain fans, by the way. I think they may have a point in thinking it should have been nominated for Best Picture. It wasn't one of my favorites, but I certainly think it was better than both Seabiscuit and Master and Commander. I just tease Mandi about it because it's fun to tease Mandi.) Roger Ebert has a great essay on his site at the moment claiming that for the first time in a long time the Academy voters got it right. I agree, and state again that the people who don't "get" Lost in Translation or Mystic River (or who didn't see them at all and still complain about them being nominated, which is just plain dumb) need to step out of the multiplex a little more frequently and see something of merit. Would it kill you to see In America instead of You Got Served?
Miscellany:
1) I won Kevin's "Name My Song" contest, mainly because I was the only one who voted.
B) I'm not returning my crappy full screen version of Lost in Translation to Wal-Mart in exchange for the wide screen version. I decided that life is too short to worry about something like that. Plus I lost the receipt.
4.5) The newspaper actually came to take pictures of the play today. The photographer kept asking me to explain who the characters were, which in this play is only slightly easier than explaining quantum physics.
XII) If I could have any super power, it would be to instantly iron my shirts by twitching my nose.
5a-7) DeAnna and I went to two thrift stores today and discovered that the men of the Morongo Basin like to hang onto their winter coats, but give away their crutches and skis without a second thought.
Pi) Damn, this CD is good.
23%) Bush calls today's same-sex marriage ruling in Massachusetts "troubling" and says he wants to "preserve the sanctity of marriage." Egads. In a country where the divorce rate is hovering around 50%, where there are reality television shows devoted to finding a spouse, and where unwed mothers pop babies out like broken gumball machines, where does the sanctity part come in? If two people love each other, why does anyone else think they have the right to deny them their happiness? And if God really does frown on it, then let God sort it out later, fer cryin' out loud.
a<10-5) My horoscope, according to The Onion: "Jesus will finally speak to you this week, but His message of love will contain such filthy language that your faith will be shaken forever."
1...3...5...?) You haven't lived until you've heard two teenage girls belching over a headset. It's truly magical.
10) I heart you.