dinner and some notes
i just had the best dinner. stuffed salmon fillet (stuffed with spinach, mushrooms, and herb dressing- i'm in lurv.)
and a beer. some german thing i'm not terribly inclined to go see what it's called just now, but it's from the world's oldest brewery, which is enough to get me interested. and all this can be found at your local Central Market- oh how it burdens my poor soul. also, i discovered something today. after a year of pretty shitty luck i'm now very suspicious of any good fortune that comes my way. i've been having a really good, a fucking great last few weeks and i'm not happy about it because i'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. we'll see. so... ramble ramble robble robble
joshsapien's Top 5 Movies for the Year 2005:
(i know you've all been waiting on needles and pins since i threatened to do this a while ago, so you can all exhale and enjoy. or not)
1) Walk the Line: it was actually well done, and i was very suspicious going in. it was an easy movie to mess up, and it would have been really easy to build JC up to be a saint, but halfway through the movie a friend of mine leaned over to me and told me "your hero was an asshole" and i knew they got it right. no sugar coating of how the man lived. but i'm biased toward liking it. it would have had to be really terrible for me to not have liked it, fortunately it was well done
2) Sin City: looked really good. followed the comics exactly, which i though worked for it instead of against it. i wrote a whole thing about it to a friend of mine that thought it was too nihlistic, which i won't go into here (it was really loooooong) but sufice to say that it actually has many redeeming qualities (doing what is right, no matter what the cost, loyalty, etc) that are mired in violence and even though it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad by their actions, the good guys are easily identifiable by the ends they're trying to achieve through their heinous means. plus it's just absolutely beautiful to look at
3) Jarhead: i thought it was a good examination of modern war (not that i'd really know, but i'm speculating here) in that it's been taken out of the hands of the soldier and put into the hands of people with remote control missles and bombs. it's a double edged sword in that it takes the human aspect out of the whole thing (by having less killed) but that's what makes war such a hard decision to go ahead with, i'd think. the idea that a war should be worth the human sacrifice that it will cost. and if we can go to war without worrying about "our guys" getting killed then it makes the decision to go to war that much easier. at least i'd think so.
4) King Kong: didn't see it yet, but 2005 wasn't really a very good movie year, so if this doesn't make the list then i just give up
5) Royal Tenenbaums: it didn't come out in 2005, but i just watched it again the other day. i still think it's on the short list for best movie ever made. watch it again and see if you agree or don't
-that was pretty painful. movies, who needs em? look at what i have there. three movies that were books first, so if you read the books you'd be just as well of as having seen the movies, a remake of a movie, and one i haven't even seen yet, too, and a movie from a few years back. hollywood, you're a still breathing dinosaur
and a beer. some german thing i'm not terribly inclined to go see what it's called just now, but it's from the world's oldest brewery, which is enough to get me interested. and all this can be found at your local Central Market- oh how it burdens my poor soul. also, i discovered something today. after a year of pretty shitty luck i'm now very suspicious of any good fortune that comes my way. i've been having a really good, a fucking great last few weeks and i'm not happy about it because i'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. we'll see. so... ramble ramble robble robble
joshsapien's Top 5 Movies for the Year 2005:
(i know you've all been waiting on needles and pins since i threatened to do this a while ago, so you can all exhale and enjoy. or not)
1) Walk the Line: it was actually well done, and i was very suspicious going in. it was an easy movie to mess up, and it would have been really easy to build JC up to be a saint, but halfway through the movie a friend of mine leaned over to me and told me "your hero was an asshole" and i knew they got it right. no sugar coating of how the man lived. but i'm biased toward liking it. it would have had to be really terrible for me to not have liked it, fortunately it was well done
2) Sin City: looked really good. followed the comics exactly, which i though worked for it instead of against it. i wrote a whole thing about it to a friend of mine that thought it was too nihlistic, which i won't go into here (it was really loooooong) but sufice to say that it actually has many redeeming qualities (doing what is right, no matter what the cost, loyalty, etc) that are mired in violence and even though it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad by their actions, the good guys are easily identifiable by the ends they're trying to achieve through their heinous means. plus it's just absolutely beautiful to look at
3) Jarhead: i thought it was a good examination of modern war (not that i'd really know, but i'm speculating here) in that it's been taken out of the hands of the soldier and put into the hands of people with remote control missles and bombs. it's a double edged sword in that it takes the human aspect out of the whole thing (by having less killed) but that's what makes war such a hard decision to go ahead with, i'd think. the idea that a war should be worth the human sacrifice that it will cost. and if we can go to war without worrying about "our guys" getting killed then it makes the decision to go to war that much easier. at least i'd think so.
4) King Kong: didn't see it yet, but 2005 wasn't really a very good movie year, so if this doesn't make the list then i just give up
5) Royal Tenenbaums: it didn't come out in 2005, but i just watched it again the other day. i still think it's on the short list for best movie ever made. watch it again and see if you agree or don't
-that was pretty painful. movies, who needs em? look at what i have there. three movies that were books first, so if you read the books you'd be just as well of as having seen the movies, a remake of a movie, and one i haven't even seen yet, too, and a movie from a few years back. hollywood, you're a still breathing dinosaur