At the tender age of two she curiously shoved cardboard up her nose just to see what would happen. Thus began a life-long fascination with the world around her.
The following is the result of residual cardboard still lodged in her brain cavity. Please peruse.
I got Netflix for the first time in my life a few days ago. I am quite in love with it. And I don’t know why more people don’t talk about it in their daily lives.
Maybe they do and I just haven’t paid attention.
Either way, I want to talk about it a lot.
I feel like I went to a garage sale and bought 1,000 movies and TV series for $8. And they’re all in a van out back. And all I want to do is get through them all.
I can see this being both glorious and tragic.
How am I going to get any work done this break with all those movies just sitting in that van waiting to be watched?
At the same time it’s dangerous to put out mass amounts of work without putting anything in.
I’m going to post every time I complete 5 movies. Because 5 seems like a reasonable number. Even though I have a general distaste for our society’s unwillingness to schedule or count anything on multiples of 4 or 6 or any other number besides 5.
Sometimes I set my alarm for not 9. But 9:03 or 8:57. Just to be rebellious.
Moving right along.
Here are the 5 movies I watched:
1. When Harry Met Sally: Don’t look at me like you disapprove of the fact that it took me 25 years to watch this movie. I’ve watched 3 quarters of it up until now. Anyway. It’s Annie Hall 12 years later. And Annie Hall was significantly more neurotic and painfully self-aware. In other words, I like Annie Hall better. When Harry Met Sally is still good though.
2. The Jerk: Big fan. Steve Martin is kind of hot. Even as a retard. The thing I noticed about this movie that I really liked is…nowadays movies featuring “the idiot” character type are chock-full of stupid humor. But this movie has really smart humor. I can’t think of a recent “idiot” movie that uses smart humor. I know you’re probably thinking, well what about movies like Zoolander, Anchorman, Wedding Crashers? No. That’s self-aware stupid humor. i.e.- using stupid humor but acknowledging that it’s stupid. Which makes it smarter. But it’s still not smart humor. Disagree with me if you will. I love a good debate in the evening.
3. Inception: Mind fuck. I really like an original story. Which was my favorite part about this movie. We’ve never seen anything like it. What I didn’t like about Inception was all the shooting. I didn’t understand it. Who were they shooting at? Why was there so much shooting? I don’t know. Maybe this is one of those movies you have to watch at least 2 more times before you really understand it. But generally I just feel like any movie that spends a good half hour on gun porn could be a half hour shorter. I liked the love story and the dream stuff. Couldn’t they have just been content with mind-bending, cerebral, fantasy, romance, drama? Why did it also have to be an apocalyptic action movie? Whatev.
4. Being John Malkovic: This was another really original story. I’ve heard people say that they thought this movie sucked. I didn’t think it sucked. I think it was just really bizarre. I enjoy bizarre.
5. The 400 Blows: You probably haven’t seen this. But watch it if you get a chance. It’s a French film from 1959. The dialogue is simple. But the character development is brilliant and complex. It reminded me of a J.D. Salinger story.
ok, that’s all. I wish Netflix had a feature that allowed you to see what your friends were watching or share movies with friends. K bye.
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