Sadface...and, Happy Passover/etc
...I have to work on Friday. Boo.
Is it Passover today or tomorrow? I'm not sure. It's kind of an odd one, let's recap what this holiday is really about:
"Hey man we gotta go, we gotta leave now!"
"But I just put the bread in the oven, it won't rise properly!"
"Fuck your bread, this is the Exodus!"
Anyways, I saw two really good movies recently, Brick and The Squid and the Whale. Brick was ten kinds of amazing, and was centered around a film noir theme, which isn't something I'd seen before. I wish I had sweet nicknames and codewords for everything. It didn't get cheesy at any point either, yet there were unexpected points of hilarity, like a crippled but powerful drug king that operates out of his mother's seventies-styled basement, and a typecasted self-obsessed over the top football player, and countless other prominent high school stereotypes, but at the same time all these characters were stereotypical players in an underground drug ring, the mysterious and beautiful femme fatale who seems to be playing on everyone's side, the ringleader, the hired muscle, the informant, the detective, the victim, and the misguided rat.
As for the Squid and the Whale, Craig and I were both thinking that Wes Anderson definitely had a hand in the film and when the credits came on he did indeed turn out to be involved. Apparently Bill Murray was originally casted...But Jeff Daniels worked just as well...I just hope everyone else saw the total creepy irony in his character asking Anna Paquin's character for oral sex...when just a few short years ago he played her father in 'Fly Away Home' i think it was? Weeeird. I can't say I liked the ending of this though. It was very sudden and didn't provide many answers to some of the issues presented...the best part to me was the Phillistines vs. "Smart People" theme that the father and oldest son bought into so badly, and maybe the father had actually known somethign about all the things he talked about, but the son hadn't even read most of the books...he just took everything his father said at face value, whereas the younger son seems almost proud to be a 'Phillistine".
Bah, moving in fourish? weeks....lots of packing. Still waiting to see if I'll have the Garage sale this saturday or next..hmmm...
Is it Passover today or tomorrow? I'm not sure. It's kind of an odd one, let's recap what this holiday is really about:
"Hey man we gotta go, we gotta leave now!"
"But I just put the bread in the oven, it won't rise properly!"
"Fuck your bread, this is the Exodus!"
Anyways, I saw two really good movies recently, Brick and The Squid and the Whale. Brick was ten kinds of amazing, and was centered around a film noir theme, which isn't something I'd seen before. I wish I had sweet nicknames and codewords for everything. It didn't get cheesy at any point either, yet there were unexpected points of hilarity, like a crippled but powerful drug king that operates out of his mother's seventies-styled basement, and a typecasted self-obsessed over the top football player, and countless other prominent high school stereotypes, but at the same time all these characters were stereotypical players in an underground drug ring, the mysterious and beautiful femme fatale who seems to be playing on everyone's side, the ringleader, the hired muscle, the informant, the detective, the victim, and the misguided rat.
As for the Squid and the Whale, Craig and I were both thinking that Wes Anderson definitely had a hand in the film and when the credits came on he did indeed turn out to be involved. Apparently Bill Murray was originally casted...But Jeff Daniels worked just as well...I just hope everyone else saw the total creepy irony in his character asking Anna Paquin's character for oral sex...when just a few short years ago he played her father in 'Fly Away Home' i think it was? Weeeird. I can't say I liked the ending of this though. It was very sudden and didn't provide many answers to some of the issues presented...the best part to me was the Phillistines vs. "Smart People" theme that the father and oldest son bought into so badly, and maybe the father had actually known somethign about all the things he talked about, but the son hadn't even read most of the books...he just took everything his father said at face value, whereas the younger son seems almost proud to be a 'Phillistine".
Bah, moving in fourish? weeks....lots of packing. Still waiting to see if I'll have the Garage sale this saturday or next..hmmm...