I’m not too familiar with Peter Jackson’s earlier works, so Heavenly Creatures was a bit of an education. It featured Kate Winslet in her very first role, a surprisingly mature and capable young actress.
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I’ve moved all the posts and comments from Blogger over to this new WordPress blog. I lost a lot of the images, though. As I come across them, I will try to replace them.
I was really surprised with Stay. I had expected a mildly entertaining Sixth Sense or Jacob’s Ladder retread. Instead I got a thought provoking, cleverly woven story with exceptional cinematography and fascinating visual tricks. I had never noticed Ryan Gosling before this film, but he, Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Bob Hoskins were a great cast. I’m surprised there wasn’t more buzz about this film.
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Even if Children of Men had been worthless, it would still make the #1 slot by virtue of being the first film I’ve seen in 2007. Fortunately, it is a work of art.
Absolutely devastating, at once horrific and beautiful. One of the most frightening movies I have seen in quite a while. We absolutely cannot let the world get anywhere close to the one in this movie.
At the very least, this is the Oscar for best cinematography. There is a single take that is one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever seen on film. It goes on forever, impossibly choreographed, flawlessly executed.
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I just heard back from the publisher and the printer is going to need another two weeks to print the sample unit of House of Whack. This is really disheartening. At best, I’d have it by the 19th.
Maybe if I put it all in one place, it will start to come together and mean something.
I guess I’m now “retro blogging.” Remember: you heard that term here first!
I was first alerted to the snow by my trusty weather globe. It is never wrong.
Drat. Where will we have the dinner party now?
My car was buried under an impenetrable layer of snow.
The camper out back fared no better.
The streets were transformed.
Recent excavations in my back yard unearthed some sort of frozen beast!
Note its baleful stare.
Saving these for July…
It has now been snowing for almost 24 hours. I haven’t seen this much snow since I lived in New York or maybe when I watched The Empire Strikes Back. They closed down the entire city to incoming and outgoing traffic, stranding many people here. Yesterday the interstates were lined with semi trucks with no place to go. All outbound flights are canceled.
I live in the middle of the desert!
Via xkcd…
On Christmas Eve I drove down to the airport post office because I had received a package notification. What could this be? A Christmas present, perhaps? When the clerk pushed a large box from the board game printer over to me, my heart just about exploded. I grabbed it, forced myself not to tear it open in the car, and drove quickly home. I thought that I had just received the best Christmas present ever. My game was finally here! I thundered into my driveway, leapt from the car and went inside. I opened the large, heavy package to discover…
…a big thing of jelly beans. What crushing disappointment. Even though there were 49 different flavors, it was not enough to counter the blow. It was like a cruel trick. They had suggested the game would be ready around the same time, but instead sent a bunch of multi-colored sugar. It was then I realized just how much I cared about the game and how I had been longing for it for quite some time.