I totally missed my boyfriend Ewan's birthday on Saturday and April Fool's Day yesterday.
What has me so distracted? Besides the stupid Star War$ quiz I'm taking on the post office website right now, that is? My new tiny little friend, the iP0d Nan0.
I've been very busy ripping discs and playing with my new toy, that I won on e8ay for only $80! Jboy got the video iP0d for his birthday last year and hasn't come close to filling it up, so I was sure the Nan0 would be big enough for me. I'm only half way through my discs and I've already run out of room. Macaroni may end up with this one when I upgrade. Like next week.
My old MP3 player had a shuffle feature but I never bothered to learn how to use it. The funniest thing about listening to my new iP0d is having Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman singing "Come What May" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack pop up in between the Descendents "Everything Sux" and the Ramones "Stop Thinking About It". Makes for giggles on the train. Plus, I'm learning all the song and band names from my many compilations.
Bet you wish you had my mad Jedi skills. (Speaking of, my favorite movie Serenity just beat out Star War$ as best science fiction movie of all time on some silly internet poll. I'm not sure I agree with the results (Empire is awesome and even the prequels had Ewan, and I don't totally agree that Serenity is sci-fi) but I've got to say I love seeing Joss and the kids still getting attention, even if it is just from other geeks. And the movie theater by my house is showing her again on Joss's birthday in June!)
Okay, I've gotta get back to work on KK's Easter present. The blurry photos on this site should have been a warning to me, here I thought it was just bad karma for stealing people's photos. Nope, it's me and my technologically retarded self. Anyway, I'm going to try to get the present done in time for her grandparents to bring out to her...but they're leaving on Wednesday so I better go.
Netflix reviews:
The Deer Hunter (four & 1/2 stars)
Love Robert De Niro, Love Meryl Streep, LOVE LOVE LOVE Christopher Walken (the scariest man alive).
A group of working-class pals decide to enlist in the army during the Vietnam War and find it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. One of the survivors (Robert De Niro) must return to Saigon to save a shattered pal (Christopher Walken) from certain death in a Russian roulette club. An Oscar-winning epic, The Deer Hunter shows the heavy toll the conflict exacted on soldiers and civilians.
El Bola (five stars)
Loved it, cried like a baby.
Twelve-year-old Pablo (Juan Jose Ballesta) is stuck in a deeply abusive home ruled by his tyrannical father when he meets a new classmate, Alfredo (Pablo Galan), who befriends Pablo and introduces him to a kinder, gentler version of family life. That life is personified by Alfredo's fun-loving Bohemian father, Jose (Alberto Jimenez). Writer-director Achero Manas's poignant film won more than 30 international awards, including four Spanish Goyas.
March of the Penguins (four & 1/2 stars)
So sweet and kind of sad, but I had to cuddle in bed with a cute boy to watch it or I would have been freezing. And the whole monogamous thing? Just a little misleading.
Award-winning photographer Luc Jacquet takes documentary film to new heights -- and depths -- with his first feature film, a stunning insider's look at the life of the emperor penguin. The product of more than a year of filming in the brutal Antarctic ice, this Oscar-winning Best Documentary presents never-before-captured footage of the penguins' underwater life and explores their steadfast quest for monogamous mates.
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