Wednesday, April 30, 2008
fat
stores stuff which your body can't manage to break down and digest. a protective mechanism to get the foreign and toxic stuff away from your functioning? is this why, as digestion gets less efficient as we age, people put on fat more readily
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Bad Day
1) Sarah Schenck disregarded by explicit quote of 10 days ago and now
thinks I am charging too much to edit - $400/day....
2) These people who want a wedding videographer, that I have debased
myself into accepting, are now being choosy and won't hire me--the
humiliation
3) We have no assurance that Hart will get into the Children's School,
whereas if he'd just been a general ed kid he'd be in.
4) Barack Obama's getting dragged over the coals by his crazy pastor
and now people are saying his nomination isn't assured at all.
thinks I am charging too much to edit - $400/day....
2) These people who want a wedding videographer, that I have debased
myself into accepting, are now being choosy and won't hire me--the
humiliation
3) We have no assurance that Hart will get into the Children's School,
whereas if he'd just been a general ed kid he'd be in.
4) Barack Obama's getting dragged over the coals by his crazy pastor
and now people are saying his nomination isn't assured at all.
Ugghh....bad bad day, and I'm newly 44 with no accomplishments...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Movie: In the Valley of Elah
After assiduously watching Million Dollar Baby, Flags of our Fathers,
Letters from Iwo Jima, and hearing an interview with Paul Haggis (who
wrote them all) lamenting this film's nosedive at the box office, my
interest was piqued. My expectation that it was going to be some top
down intrigue potboiler ascribing evil to the brass in Iraq was
pleasantly disappointed. By the end, when you find out his fellow
soldiers murdered the son, it has the strange and almost unprecedented
(in my memory) effect of making the whole ostensible motive of the
plot a red herring. These guys died in Iraq. Back stateside they
just thrashed around like hungry ghosts and keeping up appearances.
Very effective and actually about something real and unadorned that is
happening now. I don't feel that it was amped up for Hollywood
purposes very much at all. The performance Tommy Lee Jones turned in
just grows in the memory. So much inner stuff conveyed so well. Shot
for shot the directing was serviceable and unflashy which is a
testament to a lot of knowingness from Haggis, who hasn't directed
much. The film redeems him from what I see as an embarrassment in
Crash. (think I wrote some notes about that at the time).
Letters from Iwo Jima, and hearing an interview with Paul Haggis (who
wrote them all) lamenting this film's nosedive at the box office, my
interest was piqued. My expectation that it was going to be some top
down intrigue potboiler ascribing evil to the brass in Iraq was
pleasantly disappointed. By the end, when you find out his fellow
soldiers murdered the son, it has the strange and almost unprecedented
(in my memory) effect of making the whole ostensible motive of the
plot a red herring. These guys died in Iraq. Back stateside they
just thrashed around like hungry ghosts and keeping up appearances.
Very effective and actually about something real and unadorned that is
happening now. I don't feel that it was amped up for Hollywood
purposes very much at all. The performance Tommy Lee Jones turned in
just grows in the memory. So much inner stuff conveyed so well. Shot
for shot the directing was serviceable and unflashy which is a
testament to a lot of knowingness from Haggis, who hasn't directed
much. The film redeems him from what I see as an embarrassment in
Crash. (think I wrote some notes about that at the time).
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