Monday Sundries
+ Awesome weekend was awesome. I spent it with great people and had a great time seeing The Swell Season, Suspicious Package, and several wonderful friends (and my sister!!).
- One of the things I saw this weekend was Couples Retreat. It was unspeakably awful. This movie was the worst pile of crap I've sat through for a long time. I'm only sorry that j_bkl, airspaniel and rockradar had to sit through it as well. It was chock-full of awful stereotypes of every stripe, and we had to watch a collection of shrill, unlikeable people go through couples therapy and somehow reconcile, and I'm not even sure how they managed to do that. I remember reading in Entertainment Weekly that this film was the bastard child of John Cassavetes and Judd Apatow - and I can only say that I wish it were even half that good. Remove it from your queue posthaste, it is time you will never get back..
- I do not approve of this at all. The Bon Vivant was a classic NYC coffee shop; stable, comforting, good food, nice staff, and owned by the same family for eons. Now, they're messing with a good thing. I will try the new place, probably. But I am unpleased by this development.
+/- I have been assured that this article is accurate, but even when I was a wee thing, most "children's" stuff made me itch. When I am home later I may listen to some of the linked-to songs in the article, but as someone who was raised on a steady diet of music from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, I find it extremely hard to believe that kids need special music. Sure, maybe pay attention to what's playing and keep Nelly off the radio, but you don't have to condemn yourself to a non-stop rotation of Yo Gabba Gabba and the Wiggles. Most music, in fact, is kid friendly. In fact, the very coolest kid I know loves Talking Heads and James Brown. So there.
- I have not yet seen Mad Men . This is annoying me far more than I expected.
+ I caught a chunk of Away We Go and laughed my ass off. Can't WAIT for that one to come from Netflix.
+ The Ziegfield is included in free movie tuesdays at Clearview Cinemas!!
- Due to a stupid premiere, I can't buy my tickets in advance I have to wait until tomorrow. :P
- Monday is being a real pain in my ass.
- One of the things I saw this weekend was Couples Retreat. It was unspeakably awful. This movie was the worst pile of crap I've sat through for a long time. I'm only sorry that j_bkl, airspaniel and rockradar had to sit through it as well. It was chock-full of awful stereotypes of every stripe, and we had to watch a collection of shrill, unlikeable people go through couples therapy and somehow reconcile, and I'm not even sure how they managed to do that. I remember reading in Entertainment Weekly that this film was the bastard child of John Cassavetes and Judd Apatow - and I can only say that I wish it were even half that good. Remove it from your queue posthaste, it is time you will never get back..
- I do not approve of this at all. The Bon Vivant was a classic NYC coffee shop; stable, comforting, good food, nice staff, and owned by the same family for eons. Now, they're messing with a good thing. I will try the new place, probably. But I am unpleased by this development.
+/- I have been assured that this article is accurate, but even when I was a wee thing, most "children's" stuff made me itch. When I am home later I may listen to some of the linked-to songs in the article, but as someone who was raised on a steady diet of music from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, I find it extremely hard to believe that kids need special music. Sure, maybe pay attention to what's playing and keep Nelly off the radio, but you don't have to condemn yourself to a non-stop rotation of Yo Gabba Gabba and the Wiggles. Most music, in fact, is kid friendly. In fact, the very coolest kid I know loves Talking Heads and James Brown. So there.
- I have not yet seen Mad Men . This is annoying me far more than I expected.
+ I caught a chunk of Away We Go and laughed my ass off. Can't WAIT for that one to come from Netflix.
+ The Ziegfield is included in free movie tuesdays at Clearview Cinemas!!
- Due to a stupid premiere, I can't buy my tickets in advance I have to wait until tomorrow. :P
- Monday is being a real pain in my ass.