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the game is called princess of recess. i'm the princess.
- The Double Hook is a magical sort of book. It's clear that it was written by a playwright. It should have more imitators than it does.
- Othello is really repetitive for a Shakespeare play. Acts two through four were sort of all the same thing. Maybe there should have been a sub-plot.
- Tommy Lee Jones needed more scenes, but No Country for Old ( Read more... ) -
dear sir or lady
- The Awakening is a completely ordinary romance novel, except for the ending. The ending is kind of ingenius; the whole thing turns realistic but sort of remarkable. I think it was only assigned as a history lesson.
- As for Me and My House is a whole book of the narrator trying to keep out of her husband's way. Some people can read it for "this ( Read more... ) -
he do the policemen in different voices
- Holiday is now my favourite Magnetic Fields album. There's a lush, sparkling, sound, where all the instruments pat out melodies instead of just rhythms. The first listen and the tenth produce the same excitement.
- A Taste of Cherry made me feel like I was driving around the the desert, which is relaxing. The last five minutes were unnecessary, ( Read more... ) -
let's all get drunk and vote conservative
- West Side Story is a really interesting take on a gang war. It does the trick where they never say what they're fighting over, except for the right to rule the neighbourhood, and it also has well-groomed, graceful little men as the gang members. There was also a love story but I didn't care about it.
- Juno has a very good cast and I would pay ( Read more... ) -
denzel whitaker is a made-up name
- The Colour of Pomegranates was an art exhibit of a movie, full of Greenaway-looking tableaux and nice Armenian music. I got bored and had to watch in shifts, but I would have also gotten bored at an art exhibit.
- Burnt by the Sun has an interesting story, but it keeps the plot in the same place for too long. Maybe it was the fact I'd heard ( Read more... ) -
when life gives you marmals
- I watched this movie Ballad of a Soldier. It got sappy in the second half. Sometimes it was engaging, but mostly it just said that wars are tragedies.
- Sunshine Skteches of a Little Town is the exact same kind of stuff that Stuart McLean and Garrison Keillor do. The kind of soft folksy stories that make old people seem like idiots ( Read more... ) -
they're treating it like some kind of urine contest
- The Station Agent has a lot of scenes where the one guy is being friendly, but the other guy just wants him to go away. I like those. It could have used a better soundtrack.
- Gates of Heaven was a set of interviews with slow-talking people, with not many visual cutaways. It was still moving a lot of the time. I liked how they sort of outed a ( Read more... ) -
the world series of fire safety
- Movies! I watched a whole load of movies, and they're pretty good! -
garbage slash lost and found bin
- Jordan was awesome to give me an Eraserhead, but then David Lynch let us both down. I like the wordless first half-hour, but after that I spent much less time freaking out than I spent waiting to freak out.
- Ratatouille had great, great action scenes. The human chef was a bit of a glory hog. The funny parts weren't all that funny, but the ( Read more... ) -
in you're home using you're stuff
- Remains of the Day was a terrific book, where a man narrates the 200-page realization that he's wasted his life -- like a quieter About Schmidt. Salman Rushdie said it was cruel on the back cover, but I thought it was completely compassionate.
- I am undecided on After the Wedding. I am a sucker for melodrama, but the movie's international ( Read more... )