jarwha-?
I saw Jarhead the other night. Really a great movie. Well-acted, some beautifully haunting images, a decent amount of humor, and an all-around impressive film...until you wake up the next morning.
Jarhead is one of the most impressive forgettable films I've seen in ages. I rarely have such a strong reaction while in a theater and then less than 24 hours later can't come up with much to recommend, save for my own memories of thinking I would recommend it.
I'm sorry, what was I talking about?
***
The armload is light this week. Been working many hours of overtime and gone to a poetry event here and there. Also trying to stay caught up with little things like family gatherings, Family Guy, stacks of paper on my desk, the checkbook, more overtime...I'm also writing and discussing writing with The Beautiful Wife, who has decided that it's time to re-evaluate her own creativity. After her many hours of overtime, that is. Oh, and marital relations, we can't forget those. Trying to maintain the good life on all fronts.
So, not much to report. Jar-huh? is mentioned above. I have Delon's Le Samourai and the final edition of MPD Psycho burning a hole in the desk upon which our TV stands, and we did recently watch a new Dave Attell concert DVD that was okay, but no great shakes. Nothing to see here, move along.
***
Wacky dreams last night. First I had one where I was trying to match the right box to the right place in the warehouse...this was not far from what I spent hours doing this week at work, but this was more of the evil-Tetris version, very dreamstate, very frustrating when all you want is blue-sky/happy-bunny/floaty-balloon sleep. Then, second dream: The Beautiful Wife and I were in a strange theater trying to watch Capote (which I have not seen, so it's going to freak me out if when we finally see it I have deja vu), but these two women were disrupting the show, making noise from the back. I went to talk with them and they were very pleasant but clearly crazy, and we ended up leaving the theater before the show ended. Ran through an adjoining restaurant and shopping center, and all I could think was "why are running? it makes us look like we're the ones who were causing trouble". No sun, no sky, no bunnies, no balloons. I really need to up my dosage of Tylenol PM.
***
So, not feeling terribly rested, and a long day ahead. Cutting you loose, but first a little GAMING REVIEW:
Far Cry Instincts - Awesome, sweet, sweet and awesome. Beautifully-rendered, terrific fun, and not overly hard like some games (COUGHCallofCthuhluHACKNinjaGaidenHARUMPH).
The Warriors - Half the fun in starting this game was explaining the original film to TBW. Pure fighter, but looks like fun.
Half-Life 2 - The XBOX port of this game comes out this Tuesday, and I am waiting like a little Star Wars geekboy in hopes that it will be everything I want and more.
Frankly, I don't care about the 360. I'm having way too much fun with the current crop of original XBOX games. I'm still hustling San Andreas, riding through Burnout Revenge and SSX On Tour, and now these new ones. I'm loving the XBOX now more than ever.
360 is for suckers.
warriors, come out and playeeeeee!
Jarhead is one of the most impressive forgettable films I've seen in ages. I rarely have such a strong reaction while in a theater and then less than 24 hours later can't come up with much to recommend, save for my own memories of thinking I would recommend it.
I'm sorry, what was I talking about?
***
The armload is light this week. Been working many hours of overtime and gone to a poetry event here and there. Also trying to stay caught up with little things like family gatherings, Family Guy, stacks of paper on my desk, the checkbook, more overtime...I'm also writing and discussing writing with The Beautiful Wife, who has decided that it's time to re-evaluate her own creativity. After her many hours of overtime, that is. Oh, and marital relations, we can't forget those. Trying to maintain the good life on all fronts.
So, not much to report. Jar-huh? is mentioned above. I have Delon's Le Samourai and the final edition of MPD Psycho burning a hole in the desk upon which our TV stands, and we did recently watch a new Dave Attell concert DVD that was okay, but no great shakes. Nothing to see here, move along.
***
Wacky dreams last night. First I had one where I was trying to match the right box to the right place in the warehouse...this was not far from what I spent hours doing this week at work, but this was more of the evil-Tetris version, very dreamstate, very frustrating when all you want is blue-sky/happy-bunny/floaty-balloon sleep. Then, second dream: The Beautiful Wife and I were in a strange theater trying to watch Capote (which I have not seen, so it's going to freak me out if when we finally see it I have deja vu), but these two women were disrupting the show, making noise from the back. I went to talk with them and they were very pleasant but clearly crazy, and we ended up leaving the theater before the show ended. Ran through an adjoining restaurant and shopping center, and all I could think was "why are running? it makes us look like we're the ones who were causing trouble". No sun, no sky, no bunnies, no balloons. I really need to up my dosage of Tylenol PM.
***
So, not feeling terribly rested, and a long day ahead. Cutting you loose, but first a little GAMING REVIEW:
Far Cry Instincts - Awesome, sweet, sweet and awesome. Beautifully-rendered, terrific fun, and not overly hard like some games (COUGHCallofCthuhluHACKNinjaGaidenHARUMPH).
The Warriors - Half the fun in starting this game was explaining the original film to TBW. Pure fighter, but looks like fun.
Half-Life 2 - The XBOX port of this game comes out this Tuesday, and I am waiting like a little Star Wars geekboy in hopes that it will be everything I want and more.
Frankly, I don't care about the 360. I'm having way too much fun with the current crop of original XBOX games. I'm still hustling San Andreas, riding through Burnout Revenge and SSX On Tour, and now these new ones. I'm loving the XBOX now more than ever.
360 is for suckers.
warriors, come out and playeeeeee!
posted by scn at 5:25 AM
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