Saturday, October 2, 2010
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bearshortyI’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 I went pretty fast through seasons 1 to 5 but I have to make myself to sit thought season 6. I just have little desire – maybe because I know general reviews of the season. I know there are three good episodes at the end (since Methos is in them) but I kind of saw them already. Well, I’m just going to try to finish this show since I would like to actually watch the whole thing. I really like this show in general and I love the fanfic and I’m really glad I watched it finally this summer but they should have stopped at Season 5.
Wesley! If I knew he was in this episode I wouldn’t have watched it sooner! This episode was actually quite good. All the characters were really three-dimensional with realistic motivations. When they did the wrong thing, like protecting a guilty son, or trying to hunt down the wife’s killer and even why the son kills in the first place, it all came from a real place with no easy answers. When Wesley kills the wife, who is quite likable, it was a really dramatic moment that turned the episode. Before it was light capers. And the episode ended on ambiguous note too. Duncan took out his katana but didn’t kill his friend. He hasn’t taken a quickening in over a year and I think it will stay that way for a while. But at least he fight when he feels he must. This episode touches again on how a person is shaped by how he or she was raised. And Duncan got a better jacket! “Son, did you kill anybody?” is the most ridiculous question to actually ask. People actually speak French in Paris in this episode! Maybe season six is not that bad after all. Or maybe it is an exception.
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%)
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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 I went pretty fast through seasons 1 to 5 but I have to make myself to sit thought season 6. I just have little desire – maybe because I know general reviews of the season. I know there are three good episodes at the end (since Methos is in them) but I kind of saw them already. Well, I’m just going to try to finish this show since I would like to actually watch the whole thing. I really like this show in general and I love the fanfic and I’m really glad I watched it finally this summer but they should have stopped at Season 5.
Wesley! If I knew he was in this episode I wouldn’t have watched it sooner! This episode was actually quite good. All the characters were really three-dimensional with realistic motivations. When they did the wrong thing, like protecting a guilty son, or trying to hunt down the wife’s killer and even why the son kills in the first place, it all came from a real place with no easy answers. When Wesley kills the wife, who is quite likable, it was a really dramatic moment that turned the episode. Before it was light capers. And the episode ended on ambiguous note too. Duncan took out his katana but didn’t kill his friend. He hasn’t taken a quickening in over a year and I think it will stay that way for a while. But at least he fight when he feels he must. This episode touches again on how a person is shaped by how he or she was raised. And Duncan got a better jacket! “Son, did you kill anybody?” is the most ridiculous question to actually ask. People actually speak French in Paris in this episode! Maybe season six is not that bad after all. Or maybe it is an exception.
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
