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How is that possible?
The weekend was wonderful - that extra day to just lounge was what I really needed, so I don't feel too badly about not getting through most of my to-do list.
We saw MOVIES! Stardust in the theatre (SOOO worth paying the ten bucks to sit for two hours) and Keeping Mum on DVD.
Stardust
THE perfect movie. Adventure, true love, hidden origins, air pirates, and a greek chorus of ghosts. What more can you ask of a movie? And that it is a Neil Gaiman project just puts the very fine frosting on the very fine cake.
And I love that you can pretty much *see* Charles Vess's influences in the set up of some of the shots (the long shot of Lamia in the black gown striding back to the cart and goats on the windswept cliff face sicks in the mind).
Best movie I've seen this year. One to own.
Keeping Mum
Wow, a British dark comedy that is immensely satisfying. Rowan Atkinson generally bugs the hell out of me. We know he *can* act, he just generally doesn't - the bumbling physical comedy he does the most I *hate* with fiery purple passion. But in this movie he shines as the slightly geeky, kind of ineffective vicar. Kristin Scott Thomas as his wife, and our main character, is tragic and searching for some affection her husband is too busy to give her. Her nympho daughter and nerdy son round out the family. Also of consequence, Lance, played by Patrick Swayze, as the loud, (would be lover to the vicar's wife) sleazy American whose brain is terminally in his shorts, the nosy elderly neighbor with flower arranging on the brain, the barking dog and his owner, and the "problem" with the pond.
Into this chaos comes Maggie Smith as Grace, who has a... unique approach to dealing with those that upset and annoy the family. She is quite pathological about it, really.
Mayhem, I say. Absolute mayhem.
Funny, sad and irreverent. Just as all of the best British black comedies are. Well worth seeing.
And Gwen got the first season of Eureka so we can wallow in our t00by geeky love for it! The Sci-fi channel was doing a marathon of "Dead Like Me" all day yesterday, and we saw the last episode and the first episode - How marvelous is the first episode when you *know* what comes next? I almost liked it better knowing everything. And kudos for ending the series properly. 'They' cancel all the wrong shows.
I saw my parents on Sunday - in fact I will be building a couple of things for the gallery. And I was invited to lunch (which is what I get when helping out at the gallery, my parents feed me lunch). Not a bad trade-off. My dad wants me to buy into his latest obsession (golf) and learn how to play so he can share his completely geeky love of the game with me. I am not all that excited about golf, or any other "hit the ball with an implement of d00m" kind of game. Now, if he was talking archery, I would be the first one in line.
My mother's eleven tomato plants are bringing in bountiful harvest, and I helped "prep" a few of them for sauce (say, 20 or 25). And she still had a counter full of them left untouched. We also hem-ripped the curtains she bought so she can fit them to the windows she bought them for.
Note to self (and Gwen): they saw "The History Boys" and highly recommend it. Something for the Netflix queue?
The weekend was wonderful - that extra day to just lounge was what I really needed, so I don't feel too badly about not getting through most of my to-do list.
We saw MOVIES! Stardust in the theatre (SOOO worth paying the ten bucks to sit for two hours) and Keeping Mum on DVD.
Stardust
THE perfect movie. Adventure, true love, hidden origins, air pirates, and a greek chorus of ghosts. What more can you ask of a movie? And that it is a Neil Gaiman project just puts the very fine frosting on the very fine cake.
And I love that you can pretty much *see* Charles Vess's influences in the set up of some of the shots (the long shot of Lamia in the black gown striding back to the cart and goats on the windswept cliff face sicks in the mind).
Best movie I've seen this year. One to own.
Keeping Mum
Wow, a British dark comedy that is immensely satisfying. Rowan Atkinson generally bugs the hell out of me. We know he *can* act, he just generally doesn't - the bumbling physical comedy he does the most I *hate* with fiery purple passion. But in this movie he shines as the slightly geeky, kind of ineffective vicar. Kristin Scott Thomas as his wife, and our main character, is tragic and searching for some affection her husband is too busy to give her. Her nympho daughter and nerdy son round out the family. Also of consequence, Lance, played by Patrick Swayze, as the loud, (would be lover to the vicar's wife) sleazy American whose brain is terminally in his shorts, the nosy elderly neighbor with flower arranging on the brain, the barking dog and his owner, and the "problem" with the pond.
Into this chaos comes Maggie Smith as Grace, who has a... unique approach to dealing with those that upset and annoy the family. She is quite pathological about it, really.
Mayhem, I say. Absolute mayhem.
Funny, sad and irreverent. Just as all of the best British black comedies are. Well worth seeing.
And Gwen got the first season of Eureka so we can wallow in our t00by geeky love for it! The Sci-fi channel was doing a marathon of "Dead Like Me" all day yesterday, and we saw the last episode and the first episode - How marvelous is the first episode when you *know* what comes next? I almost liked it better knowing everything. And kudos for ending the series properly. 'They' cancel all the wrong shows.
I saw my parents on Sunday - in fact I will be building a couple of things for the gallery. And I was invited to lunch (which is what I get when helping out at the gallery, my parents feed me lunch). Not a bad trade-off. My dad wants me to buy into his latest obsession (golf) and learn how to play so he can share his completely geeky love of the game with me. I am not all that excited about golf, or any other "hit the ball with an implement of d00m" kind of game. Now, if he was talking archery, I would be the first one in line.
My mother's eleven tomato plants are bringing in bountiful harvest, and I helped "prep" a few of them for sauce (say, 20 or 25). And she still had a counter full of them left untouched. We also hem-ripped the curtains she bought so she can fit them to the windows she bought them for.
Note to self (and Gwen): they saw "The History Boys" and highly recommend it. Something for the Netflix queue?
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Hm. Actually I need to add in the new releases, it's been about a month.