OH! Almost forgot

Movies!

This week I've seen some amazing Movies. WOW! Really good week for movies:

I finally saw Babel... and it's very good. It's bleak in many ways, but extremely well done, and I highly recommend it (unless you're already feeling down because it's not a feel-good-happy-go-lucky breath of fresh air kinda movie... yes I got tired of hyphenating just now). So, Babel was a pretty good start, but even better is the next one!

Children of Men. Okay, seriously this is an incredibly good movie. Again, not super happy but I feel that it's far from a bleak (bleek?) film. It's so incredibly well done, and so visually striking, that I hope you check it out, if you haven't. Clive Owen turns in a great preformance, Julianne Moore is great, Chiwetel Ejiofor is also very good, and Michael Caine is pretty great too... very well done.

Finally, before I watched either of these, I celebrated Alan Arkin winning the oscar this year by adding a whole slew of his movies to my Netflix cue. Soon I'll have Catch 22, but earlier this week I saw Mother Night, and man was it good. I've never heard much about this film, but it's very well done, a truly well told story, and it's full of good preformances, including a great turn by Nick Nolte as the main character. He's an actor I can't say I've ever found incredibly remarkable, but he does a great job in this. Arkin is great too, as is John Goodman. I would recommend this almost as highly as I just recommended Children of Men... and with that, I'm going to jump off my movie soap box.

Have a great night! Oh, and if you like the band Modest Mouse, you should check out a band called Withdrawal... just found them this week, and they're great too! (I hope that link is good.... I'll have to check it later)

And a Maundy Thursday to you

So... in about five minutes I'm running out the door to meet up with Lyndsey and some folks but before I run out the door... I thought I would make a quick post about, let's face it, nothing really. I only realized in recent years that many folks have never heard the term Maundy Thursday, and today I added more people to that list. I guess lots of folks just call it either Holy Thursday or Thursday because it's no biggie. It was always a striking day to me growing up because it's a really bleary and sad church service.

Not sure where I'm going with this... ah yes, I'm going to find Lyndsey. Maundy Thursday to you all, and more soon!

By the way, if you watched the Cheney video and were disappointed, I was too when on the third or fourth time watching it I realized there is a secret service-looking suit to his right at the start of the long shot panning back. He's still creepy, right? Okay, good, I'm glad we agree on that.

Okay, I'm out.