Time Off for Good Behaviour
Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, the last of the 12 days of Christmas, and the day to take down Christmas decorations.
"The Holidays" will officially be over, and we can go back to our normal lives, looking forward to Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Well, except my company's holiday party, which is Saturday the 16th.
Marni & I did New Year's Eve at the Haven, New Year's Afternoon at Michelle & Matt's, New Year's Evening with her dad & step-mom for Everybody's Fine & dinner. While it was a really good film, and really worth seeing for several reasons (including decent writing and for how Robert De Niro and Sam Rockwell play off each other) it is one of those holiday films that pulls the heartstrings and is at times quite depressing. I recommend it, but not for everybody.
On the opposite side of the film spectrum (I imagine) there are two that I want to see in theaters sometime soon. Avatar (IMax Digital 3D over at Hoffman) and Sherlock Holmes. I actually want to see Sherlock Holmes, but I've been on the fence about Avatar for a while now. I don't think I'll actually enjoy it, but much like when I went out to see Beowulf in 3D, I want to see where the technology has gone.
I think I am going to wait for the DVD on the Fantastic Mr. Fox and the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
On Saturday evening Marni & I met up with some friends to see our friend August Shaner perform in "All Lit Up" at the Maryland Ensemble Theater. I would recommend this, but we caught the last performance. Hi-larious. I am hoping to get a digital copy of some of the songs to use on next year's holiday album.
Marni & I have been watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately, as we recover our strength on the comfy sofa. We both own all seven seasons on DVD, but I haven't seen most of them. We are currently most of the way through Season Four, having stopped last night after "Goodbye Iowa" (S4 E17).
The Special Features on the Buffy discs, including the "Intro to" certain episodes, are filled with spoilers. There was one "Intro" to a season three episode that not only gave away the entire plot of that episode, but also the episode that followed it, the season finale, and some events from season six.
That is a really incredibly stupid horrible thing to do.
I started reading a graphic novel the other day (lent to me by Marni's dad) and the beginning of it was an introduction, which appeared to be a part of the graphic novel, but was actually written by someone else, and written for readers who had already read the entire series. I was about a third of the way through it when I realized this, and skipped ahead to the actual opening of the story. WTF? Did I miss a memo?
I downloaded a behind the scenes preview of the film Moon and about a minute in Sam Rockwell gives away the entire plot of the movie and explains the whole mystery that I spent a good 45 minutes figuring out while watching it in theaters. I mean, yes, it's still an enjoyable film (i imagine) to watch knowing the plot ahead of time, but there is a lot of enjoyment to be had in figuring it out for yourself the first time.
That said, I cheated on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since I caught pretty much all of Seasons 1 & 2, and was hit or miss on Seasons 3 through 5, I popped open the wikipedia and read ahead a bit to fill in some of the gaps. That was my choice, and not a SURPRISE (greek what?) found in something mislabeled as an Introduction.
"The Holidays" will officially be over, and we can go back to our normal lives, looking forward to Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Well, except my company's holiday party, which is Saturday the 16th.
Marni & I did New Year's Eve at the Haven, New Year's Afternoon at Michelle & Matt's, New Year's Evening with her dad & step-mom for Everybody's Fine & dinner. While it was a really good film, and really worth seeing for several reasons (including decent writing and for how Robert De Niro and Sam Rockwell play off each other) it is one of those holiday films that pulls the heartstrings and is at times quite depressing. I recommend it, but not for everybody.
On the opposite side of the film spectrum (I imagine) there are two that I want to see in theaters sometime soon. Avatar (IMax Digital 3D over at Hoffman) and Sherlock Holmes. I actually want to see Sherlock Holmes, but I've been on the fence about Avatar for a while now. I don't think I'll actually enjoy it, but much like when I went out to see Beowulf in 3D, I want to see where the technology has gone.
I think I am going to wait for the DVD on the Fantastic Mr. Fox and the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
On Saturday evening Marni & I met up with some friends to see our friend August Shaner perform in "All Lit Up" at the Maryland Ensemble Theater. I would recommend this, but we caught the last performance. Hi-larious. I am hoping to get a digital copy of some of the songs to use on next year's holiday album.
Marni & I have been watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately, as we recover our strength on the comfy sofa. We both own all seven seasons on DVD, but I haven't seen most of them. We are currently most of the way through Season Four, having stopped last night after "Goodbye Iowa" (S4 E17).
The Special Features on the Buffy discs, including the "Intro to" certain episodes, are filled with spoilers. There was one "Intro" to a season three episode that not only gave away the entire plot of that episode, but also the episode that followed it, the season finale, and some events from season six.
That is a really incredibly stupid horrible thing to do.
I started reading a graphic novel the other day (lent to me by Marni's dad) and the beginning of it was an introduction, which appeared to be a part of the graphic novel, but was actually written by someone else, and written for readers who had already read the entire series. I was about a third of the way through it when I realized this, and skipped ahead to the actual opening of the story. WTF? Did I miss a memo?
I downloaded a behind the scenes preview of the film Moon and about a minute in Sam Rockwell gives away the entire plot of the movie and explains the whole mystery that I spent a good 45 minutes figuring out while watching it in theaters. I mean, yes, it's still an enjoyable film (i imagine) to watch knowing the plot ahead of time, but there is a lot of enjoyment to be had in figuring it out for yourself the first time.
That said, I cheated on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since I caught pretty much all of Seasons 1 & 2, and was hit or miss on Seasons 3 through 5, I popped open the wikipedia and read ahead a bit to fill in some of the gaps. That was my choice, and not a SURPRISE (greek what?) found in something mislabeled as an Introduction.