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June 29, 2008

things i miss a lot

the starlite.

vis-art video. i'm amazed by how much i miss vis-art. i was going through new releases on netflix tonight and had a really visceral reaction while thinking i SHOULD be browsing these on the vis-art shelves and now i never can again.

my convertible. every so often i really miss her, like on warm summer nights. but it's good i sold her before gas prices got so high.

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February 23, 2008

a trip through space... and TIME!

more movies:

My brain is all but fried, but I still want to see There Will Be Blood before tomorrow evening.

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January 01, 2008

movie: Charlie Wilson's War

this movie takes place from 1980 until 1988-- while i was in junior high, high school, and college. during that time, i didn't watch the news, i didn't read the paper, and by the time i got to college i didn't even watch tv at all. i was clueless about a covert war in afghanistan.

so my only exposure to that event is a movie starring tom hanks and julia roberts. how sad is that?

it felt strange to laugh during a movie about such a serious topic, but that's the hollywood treatment: sugar makes the medicine go down. there were, in fact, some fairly comic bits in the movie. the refugee camp scenes (the most serious parts of the film) cannot be compared to those in 'beyond borders', which might be considered as an interesting companion to this movie.

it was nicely put together, smooth, entertaining, and probably largely factual.

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December 28, 2007

quit yelling, lady

we saw the golden compass tonight. it was disappointing and a little boring. the best part is the bear. the characters aren't well developed and new ones spring up abruptly, spouting extremely implausible, difficult to remember names. the witches were way too ren-faire.

otherwise, things in virginia are pleasant and a nice change from the stress just prior to and on christmas day.

after the movie was over, this very tall woman in the row in front of us stood up and started loudly berating her husband for not having an imagination.

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March 13, 2007

RIP, Bob Groves: The Starlite was your life

The owner of the Durham Starlite Drive-In, Bob Groves, died Friday, March 9, 2007.

This is very sad. I had been thinking of going to the Starlite soon, with the nice weather. Bob worked at drive-in theaters from the time he was 13 years old, living in Cumberland, MD. He'd been running the Starlite since at least the 70's, I believe. With Bob's passing, I imagine the future of the Starlite is uncertain. For the sake of Durham and Bob's memory, I hope it passes to new owners who continue to operate it as a drive-in.

I am very, very sad.

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March 23, 2006

OMFG!

there's a crime movie starring CLIVE OWEN, JODIE FOSTER, (and denzel), and directed by SPIKE LEE.

[squeal like a total fangirl!]

Inside Man

:|:

also, today at lunch i saw a woman wearing the most impossible shoes. the highest, thinnest stiletto heels, at least four inches, five would not be out of the question. the footbed was angled so sharply that it formed an "L". points so long they curled up like an elf's shoe. the woman attached to these highly improbable pieces of footwear was, naturally, petite, slender, impeccably groomed, and looked entirely out of place at Char-Grill. she shifted uncomfortably. you know what? i think they hurt.

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June 05, 2005

i've got some bedsheets and a staple gun i can loan ya

starlite baby, YEAH!

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January 03, 2005

jan 3 - the name of the rose

i've seen this many times before but ah, what the hell. a fun mystery (i can never quite remember the solution, so there's still a bit of a surprise each time); brief but hot sex with a very, very young christian slater. freakish monk behavior. oliver reed. an ensemble of some of the strangest looking men ever to grace a single film. sean connery before he started to slip.

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jan 2 - run lola run; a series of unfortunate events

'run lola run' - utterly fantastic german film about a girl (Franka Potente, the romantic lead in 'the bourne identity' and 'the bourne supremacy') who has 20 minutes to get 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend (played by the guy who played the lead in das experiment, Moritz Bleibtreu). i will tell you that the action of the film takes place in, essentially, real time (yet is much longer than 20 minutes); that franka potente is incredibly athletic; that there's some excellent use of animation in certain places.

i don't want to tell you too much else lest i ruin the fun; trust me that it's good.

:|:

'a series of unfortunate events' - covered here

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jan 1 - ringu

like sarah, i watch a lot of movies. now that i'm not hell bent on being hyperproductive all the time, i watch a whole lotta movies. perhaps more than i should admit to publicly. but this year i think i will take the suggestion i made to her last year, and document them in my blog. at least, until it becomes too embarassing and i no longer wish to expose my ridiculous media consumption.

so. january 1st. 'ringu', the japanese horror movie that was remade by hollywood and called by them 'the ring'. i found 'the ring' quite horrifying but 'ringu' less so, possibly because of the environment and company in which i watched it; possibly because i'm more of a sucker for hollywood special effects. i actually found the american story a little richer and more surprising, but then it was completely new to me.

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