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Saturday, October 2, 2010
Oct. 2nd, 2010 08:52 pmI’m feeling ridiculously lazy today. Like not wanting to get out of bed lazy. I did get up eventually but I just want to be in my own world, read something or just be on the internet and I was not really up to interacting with anyone. I didn’t even go to visit my grandparents today. I just feel tired and sluggish.
“Love Happens” I watched this movie with my late breakfast. I do like having OnDemand HBO. The trailer really didn’t know how to advertize this movie properly. It was not really a love story as such. The characters really felt like real people and acted like normal people without any romance clichés. Aaron Eckhart plays a man who lost his wife three years ago and instead of really dealing with his grief, he wrote a book and helps others to deal with their pain. He sort of becomes a self-help guru while ignoring his own teachings. He comes back to Seattle for the first time since his wife’s death to teach another seminar and being in his former home town forces him to deal. He also meets Jennifer Aniston’s character who owns a flower shop and doesn’t really put up with bullshit. He is interested and she is sort of too, but their interactions are very grown up and are not about grand romance. They like each other and they like to hang out and she is coming out of a relationship and he is trying to live for the first time in three years. And relationship tension comes not from movie cliché misunderstandings but from their organic story. I really was not expecting this – romance is not really a center of this movie at all – dealing with grief and learning to live again is. Jennifer Aniston’s character is very well rounded too, she feels like a real person and quite different than the usual silly comedies she plays in. I really liked this movie.
“Hawaii 5-0” is no go for me. The second episode was a pretty ordinary cop show. Looks like no new shows for me this tv season – not that I don’t have too many as it is to watch.
( Highlander S6E4 )
Ok, now I’m going to get off the internet and go read an actual book. I’m still reading “Theatre” by W. Somerset Maugham. I like the story and I like the prose but I’m not compelled to pick it up to see what happens that much. We’ll see how the story progresses. I do love its Britishness.
Places I visited maps (I found this on someone’s blog and it is fun to see):
World:
visited 22 states (9.77%)
Create your own visited map of The World
US:
visited 20 states (40%)
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“Love Happens” I watched this movie with my late breakfast. I do like having OnDemand HBO. The trailer really didn’t know how to advertize this movie properly. It was not really a love story as such. The characters really felt like real people and acted like normal people without any romance clichés. Aaron Eckhart plays a man who lost his wife three years ago and instead of really dealing with his grief, he wrote a book and helps others to deal with their pain. He sort of becomes a self-help guru while ignoring his own teachings. He comes back to Seattle for the first time since his wife’s death to teach another seminar and being in his former home town forces him to deal. He also meets Jennifer Aniston’s character who owns a flower shop and doesn’t really put up with bullshit. He is interested and she is sort of too, but their interactions are very grown up and are not about grand romance. They like each other and they like to hang out and she is coming out of a relationship and he is trying to live for the first time in three years. And relationship tension comes not from movie cliché misunderstandings but from their organic story. I really was not expecting this – romance is not really a center of this movie at all – dealing with grief and learning to live again is. Jennifer Aniston’s character is very well rounded too, she feels like a real person and quite different than the usual silly comedies she plays in. I really liked this movie.
“Hawaii 5-0” is no go for me. The second episode was a pretty ordinary cop show. Looks like no new shows for me this tv season – not that I don’t have too many as it is to watch.
( Highlander S6E4 )
Ok, now I’m going to get off the internet and go read an actual book. I’m still reading “Theatre” by W. Somerset Maugham. I like the story and I like the prose but I’m not compelled to pick it up to see what happens that much. We’ll see how the story progresses. I do love its Britishness.
Places I visited maps (I found this on someone’s blog and it is fun to see):
World:
visited 22 states (9.77%)
Create your own visited map of The World
US:
visited 20 states (40%)
Create your own visited map of The United States
