tombstone

there are some fantastic lines in this movie. but for the schmaltzy love interest, this movie is pretty amazing. and fun. and val kilmer is awesome.

sopranos, seasons 3, 4, and 5

well,i’m finally caught up on sopranos, after watching pretty much all of season 3 the weekend lea was gone, and polishing off seasons 4 and 5 with her over the past week. if any of you want to have any conversations about what might happen next, or what the hell tony’s dreams mean, i’m fair game.

one hundred years of solitude

this was indeed a beautiful book, as was promised me. it was also rather depressing, which did not prevent it from being very good, though it did prevent me from finishing it in a timely fashion.

ipod

i finally purchased myself an ipod (4G 20GB). in anticipation and as a result of this, i want to remember to do the following things (this is mostly a list of links for myself):

• tag my music collection with this; also, clean up anything this doesn’t cover
• build some smart playlists
• grab some applescripts and set them up
• figure out some way to pull metadata from allmusic (despite problems) into id3 tags (probably the comment field)
• get some audiobooks, or at least dust off what files i have already. also, try and get some sedaris.
• get more music. perhaps set up some sort of mp3blog-wget-pull; perhaps more heavily utilize audioscrobbler or musicmobs, or epitonic or the like.

maxwell street days, revisited

i went to the farmer’s market on the capitol square this morning for the first time this year. it’s nice to get up and get downtown every once in a while, and today, i was able to enjoy the festivities of the yearly state street street sale as well.

exactly one year ago, lea and i came to town looking for an apartment. expect some sappy nostalgia in a couple weeks, once my one-year-in-town anniversary rolls around.

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

beautiful, and well deserving of all the critical acclaim it has received; this is the best movie i’ve seen this year. some movies contain enough truth and relevance in them to leave you stunned and reflective when they are finished, and this is one such movie.

legally blonde

after work today, i came home and cooked up some bombay curry, then sat down and watched three episodes of the sopranos in a row. after the third episode, i decided i was in the mood for something lighter, so i put in this. it’s funny enough, though part of me wished i had just moved straight on to the godfather. mostly, it made me want to watch other movies with luke wilson in them — namely, the royal tenenbaums and bottle rocket.

bj shrty

i just saw another BJ license plate: BJ SHRTY. this time, it was on a pickup truck, being driven by an old, white-haired lady. the only thing i can think of for this one is that shrty is short for “shorty” — which begs the question, what does “BJ shorty” mean? is the owner, who goes by “bj,” small in stature? is it like a quickie, but, you know, for bjs? who are these mutants?

on an (almost) unrelated note, i ran across this anti-H2 site earlier today. nothing personal, dan, but it made me think of you. also, it reminded me of a henry rollins bit where he rails on H2s.

on a completely unrelated note, both drew and dave currently have top posts that are self-described as “rambling.” i’m not sure this post quite makes that muster, but it’s getting there. also, i really will post pictures of my apartment, at some point, i promise. maybe.

the world is not enough

another bland movie. some nice moments (i.e. explosions), but somehow the cheeky wordplay failed to overly amuse me this time. plus, i couldn’t find myself really getting into the bad guys. the boat chase was fun, though.

as i watched the movie, i couldn’t help but think about how many bond movies open with bond entering willingly into a dangerous situation, then chatting, then some gunfire, then escaping, then going home to talk to m / q / etc. has anyone on the net (or anywhere else) put together some sort of comparison of the various bond movies, perhaps illustrating sequencing / storyboarding? it seems like there’s something interesting there. building a bond film seems to be somewhat akin to building a pop song.

valleyfair

went to valleyfair again. there is something to be said for nostalgia and childhood: these two things combine to make valleyfair a much better experience in my mind than in the here-and-now flesh. this is not to say that i did not have an OK time, but it is to say that i remember being thrilled about going in the past.