The Five People You Meet in Heaven

I watched The Five People You Meet in Heaven today. Very good movie. The book was really good too. I think the movie did it justice, pehaps because it stuck so closely to the book.

Love Actually

Instead of nailing any of the items on my long to do list, or even acquiring a day planner to better schedule all the tasks on the list, this evening I watched Love Actually as lovingly provided me by Netflix.

I liked the movie very much and so felt compelled to immediately add it to my favorite movies on such fine services as the Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, and of course, MySpace.

Airports are stressful places. I got to chat with a friend today especially stressed by air travel and I shared my flight back from Milwaukee with a fellow passenger so stressed by travel that she'd prefer to take the train. These are not isolated cases -- airports are full of hurried and harried travelers rushing about, and while air travel is really quite safe, vicerally it remains an experience of riding a rocket. So I wonder if the movie's premise, that of observing love actually in evidence all around at airport reunions, would actually work. I could put this to the test by heading over to Sky Harbour airport sometime -- it used to be that you could meet arrivals right at the gates, but now that everyone congregates outside the security checkpoints, it shoudl be especially convenient to observe reunions. Might just make the list of things to do.

If I ever get a planner to put these things into.

Pulp Fiction

Rented Pulp Fiction from Netflix. That intro sequence is insane.

Supersize me

I recently saw Supersize Me from Netflix. Wow. It's enough to make me really reexamine what it is I'm eating and see if I can move beyond Lean Cousine.

The Interpreter

I'm not sure why I bought The Interpreter, or why I watched it today, but it was alright.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 days

I really liked this movie a lot. I think I was supposed to see this once upon a time with Minh in New Haven but we never got around to it. I hope he liked it as much as I did.

Corpse Bride

I saw Corpse Bride today as well. I probably should have found something else to do, but it was on the to do list and easy to do while eating dinner. Seriously weird film.

Addicted To Love

I keep saying I'm going to cancel my cable television service but I don't actually do it. I enjoy Law and Order episodes, especially SVU and I hate to admit it but Criminal Intent has grown on me as well. I shouldn't like Criminal Intent -- there's this stereotypical brilliant male role foiled off a welter-weight female partner that I ought to find a complete turn-off, but somehow the psychological trickery remains compelling.

Though I would think every person ever convicted on that show would have a great appeal on the basis of incompetent counsel. Defense attorneys during interrogation seem present as a mere, and mute, formality.

The argument for my cancelling cable TV service is that it isn't helping. It's a cheap and sad escape from the real work of building a life, finding some activities and friends to do them with. But that's hard. Plopping down, brain tired from a day tending crops at the cube farm, in front of a machine that will shine human voices and a plot -- humans crave stories -- is a lot easier.

Rumour has it that the hardest choices are often the right ones.

Anyway, today I watched Addicted to Love on Starz, another service I keep saying I'm going to cancel and don't actually cancel. I have Starz because of one of those scams where they give it to you "free" for a month and then when you don't cancel you start paying for it every month. I really should cancel it, since usually there's nothing good on it. (Take that, Starz! You can scam me, but you'll have to pay the cost of jabs in my blog!) I even sent Cox a letter in response to their initial email about how they were going to give it to me free for a month, indicating that I wanted it cancelled. No effect. A downside of my great preference for conducting business via the US Postal service rather than picking up a phone. There's just something very attractive about being able to accomplish administrivia asynchronously. And something romantic about the US postal service. Neither rain nor sleet nor snow -- isn't that a lot like what love's supposed to be like?

Addicted to Love was pretty good. I mean, it was pretty freaky as well, the whole idea of voyeurism and interference to that extent. But Meg Ryan is beautiful and the movie had its charm.

Scoreless Thai

I finished Lawrence Block's The Scoreless Thai this evening. Pretty solid Tanner adventure. I'm impressed that the Chandler Public Library has several Block books I've yet to read.