I already hate the next few days...
It's Tuesday morning and I have to be at work at 8:30 in the morning. Take care of three clients, then go home. But I'll be back at the office at 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. Makes for a long day. Then the following morning, I've got to be at the VA at 8:00 a.m. although I have most of the rest of the day free. Screening Wedsnesday night, work on Thursday, back to the VA Thursday afternoon and then I get to collapse in exhaustion afterwards until Sunday morning.
I just got a little more tired just typing that up. But I will power through. There's no choice.
I now know most of the movies I'll be seeing and reviewing during March and April. Here's a list:
42
Oblivion
Admission
Dead Man Down
Olympus Has Fallen
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Pain and Gain
Phantom
The Big Wedding
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Place Beyond the Pines
To the Wonder
Trance
21 and Up
Greedy Lying Bastards
Love and Honor
The End of Love
The Sweeney
Actually I've already seen and written reviews for a few of them, but the reviews are being held until the movies open. I'm trying to approach my reviews this year a little differently. I want to be clear and honest but I think I can do it without sounding smug or being mean. And even when a film is bad, I want to talk about those things in it that were good. Very few movies are total disasters, but you can review such a film without being a jerk. More and more as I talk to people who love movies who aren't doing film criticism, their major objection is that those who do do film criticism focus on the negative in a jerk-like fashion.
Time for a song. Suddenly I felt the need to hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Naa1HXeDQ
Things I'm pondering this morning:
Why is it when I looked at the menu for the dining room for this week, I immediately discarded the notion of eating almost every meal there, except for the breakfasts. Yes, I'd be missing lunch and/or dinner because of work or other commitments on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, but the choices on Monday and Saturday weren't anything I was interested in anyway. Then again I can just order one of the alternative choices on the days and meals I will be here. It just seems silly that there wasn't one meal at lunch or dinner at the times I could have used the dining room.
The weather is changing but my nose is still all stuffed up. At this point I'll wait until I see the Primary Care doc on 3/4. Trying to get a specialist to deal with something in Primary Care's area of responsibility is the textbook definition of an exercise in futility.
What was Martha Stewart thinking, when after entering a deal promising exclusivity with Macy's, she then went and signed a deal for a Martha Stewart shop at J.C. Penney's?? Do she and her team of attorneys not understand the meaning of the word? Or is this the second example (the first being her conviction for insider trading) that she's just really, really greedy?
The good news is that once the project to expand/fix the 405 in the area of Wilshire and Sepulveda will probably ease traffic congestion in the area. The bad news and what I'm wondering about, is why it is suddenly going to take one full year longer than originally planned? You plan a big project like that, you set target dates for completion of the phases? What went wrong?
As the rumors fly over who will be the "stars" in the next round of competition on "Dancing With the Stars", the one that most intrigued me was the name Andy Dick being mentioned as a contestant? Given his propensity to melt-down and/or freak-out, I'd watch when he was on just to not miss him doing that.
If Janet Jackson was secretly married to a billionaire last year, why would she be worried about getting her hands on any of the estate of her late brother Michael? That's what certain media outlets were claiming last year. Now those claims seem specious.
Apparently historians and legal scholars read my blog, or maybe I just thought of this first. But now, members of those two groups are speculating that the opening of all combat jobs to women may force Congress to either end the draft, or begin registering women for it. The Supreme Court's decision that excluded women from being eligible for a draft was rooted in the fact that women were prohibited from serving in combat roles. Now that this is no longer the case, legally they are eligible to be drafted and failing to do so would be a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Most of us have seen the wonderful Natalie Portman film from 2000, "Where the Heart Is". But did we know there were actually two movies with the same exact title made in the ten years before the Portman film was released? I knew there was one, but not that there were two. Why do they insist on using the same titles again so soon after they've been used by another production?
What old TV series will be the next to appear in a big screen version as Hollywood continues to mine old ideas rather than investing in new ones? Bachelor Father? Emergency? Hogan's Heroes?
Speaking of Hogan's Heroes, I'm now wondering if the sandwich shop with that name that's hidden in the corner of an out of the way mini-mall near LAX is still there. I always laughed when I drove past it, wondering why no one connected with the show didn't file a lawsuit.
Why would you try to sneak onto the red carpet at the Oscars, after being told in writing you will be arrested if you try? Better question. If you're going to do that anyway, why would you wear an outrageous outfit to draw more attention to yourself?
This Date in History:
On this date in 1815, Napoleon escapes from Elba. He would not do as well once he was exiled to Saint Helena.
On this date in 1914, Brittanic, the Titanic's sister ship was launched.
On this date in 1929, President Calvin Coolidget signed an order establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (it's one of my four favorite national parks).
On this date in 1935, Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty of Versaille, by ordering the Luftwaffe back into existence.
On this date in 1966, South Korean troops in Vietnam massacre 380 villagers in a one hour attack. Almost exactly two years later, troops from South Korea were involved in another massacre of Vietnamese civilians.
Famous folk born on this date:
Victor Hugo (no, his mother wasn't miserable at his birth)
Levi Strauss (reports are, he got good genes)
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Grover Cleveland Alexander
William Frawley
Jackie Gleason
Tony Randall
Verne Gagne
Fats Domino (the man to blame for Richie Cunningham's off-key singing)
Ariel Sharon
Johnny Cash (reportedly, he was swaddled in all black blankets)
Marta Kristen
Michael Bolton
Marshall Faulk
Teresa Palmer
I just got a little more tired just typing that up. But I will power through. There's no choice.
I now know most of the movies I'll be seeing and reviewing during March and April. Here's a list:
42
Oblivion
Admission
Dead Man Down
Olympus Has Fallen
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Pain and Gain
Phantom
The Big Wedding
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Place Beyond the Pines
To the Wonder
Trance
21 and Up
Greedy Lying Bastards
Love and Honor
The End of Love
The Sweeney
Actually I've already seen and written reviews for a few of them, but the reviews are being held until the movies open. I'm trying to approach my reviews this year a little differently. I want to be clear and honest but I think I can do it without sounding smug or being mean. And even when a film is bad, I want to talk about those things in it that were good. Very few movies are total disasters, but you can review such a film without being a jerk. More and more as I talk to people who love movies who aren't doing film criticism, their major objection is that those who do do film criticism focus on the negative in a jerk-like fashion.
Time for a song. Suddenly I felt the need to hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Naa1HXeDQ
Things I'm pondering this morning:
Why is it when I looked at the menu for the dining room for this week, I immediately discarded the notion of eating almost every meal there, except for the breakfasts. Yes, I'd be missing lunch and/or dinner because of work or other commitments on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, but the choices on Monday and Saturday weren't anything I was interested in anyway. Then again I can just order one of the alternative choices on the days and meals I will be here. It just seems silly that there wasn't one meal at lunch or dinner at the times I could have used the dining room.
The weather is changing but my nose is still all stuffed up. At this point I'll wait until I see the Primary Care doc on 3/4. Trying to get a specialist to deal with something in Primary Care's area of responsibility is the textbook definition of an exercise in futility.
What was Martha Stewart thinking, when after entering a deal promising exclusivity with Macy's, she then went and signed a deal for a Martha Stewart shop at J.C. Penney's?? Do she and her team of attorneys not understand the meaning of the word? Or is this the second example (the first being her conviction for insider trading) that she's just really, really greedy?
The good news is that once the project to expand/fix the 405 in the area of Wilshire and Sepulveda will probably ease traffic congestion in the area. The bad news and what I'm wondering about, is why it is suddenly going to take one full year longer than originally planned? You plan a big project like that, you set target dates for completion of the phases? What went wrong?
As the rumors fly over who will be the "stars" in the next round of competition on "Dancing With the Stars", the one that most intrigued me was the name Andy Dick being mentioned as a contestant? Given his propensity to melt-down and/or freak-out, I'd watch when he was on just to not miss him doing that.
If Janet Jackson was secretly married to a billionaire last year, why would she be worried about getting her hands on any of the estate of her late brother Michael? That's what certain media outlets were claiming last year. Now those claims seem specious.
Apparently historians and legal scholars read my blog, or maybe I just thought of this first. But now, members of those two groups are speculating that the opening of all combat jobs to women may force Congress to either end the draft, or begin registering women for it. The Supreme Court's decision that excluded women from being eligible for a draft was rooted in the fact that women were prohibited from serving in combat roles. Now that this is no longer the case, legally they are eligible to be drafted and failing to do so would be a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Most of us have seen the wonderful Natalie Portman film from 2000, "Where the Heart Is". But did we know there were actually two movies with the same exact title made in the ten years before the Portman film was released? I knew there was one, but not that there were two. Why do they insist on using the same titles again so soon after they've been used by another production?
What old TV series will be the next to appear in a big screen version as Hollywood continues to mine old ideas rather than investing in new ones? Bachelor Father? Emergency? Hogan's Heroes?
Speaking of Hogan's Heroes, I'm now wondering if the sandwich shop with that name that's hidden in the corner of an out of the way mini-mall near LAX is still there. I always laughed when I drove past it, wondering why no one connected with the show didn't file a lawsuit.
Why would you try to sneak onto the red carpet at the Oscars, after being told in writing you will be arrested if you try? Better question. If you're going to do that anyway, why would you wear an outrageous outfit to draw more attention to yourself?
This Date in History:
On this date in 1815, Napoleon escapes from Elba. He would not do as well once he was exiled to Saint Helena.
On this date in 1914, Brittanic, the Titanic's sister ship was launched.
On this date in 1929, President Calvin Coolidget signed an order establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (it's one of my four favorite national parks).
On this date in 1935, Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty of Versaille, by ordering the Luftwaffe back into existence.
On this date in 1966, South Korean troops in Vietnam massacre 380 villagers in a one hour attack. Almost exactly two years later, troops from South Korea were involved in another massacre of Vietnamese civilians.
Famous folk born on this date:
Victor Hugo (no, his mother wasn't miserable at his birth)
Levi Strauss (reports are, he got good genes)
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Grover Cleveland Alexander
William Frawley
Jackie Gleason
Tony Randall
Verne Gagne
Fats Domino (the man to blame for Richie Cunningham's off-key singing)
Ariel Sharon
Johnny Cash (reportedly, he was swaddled in all black blankets)
Marta Kristen
Michael Bolton
Marshall Faulk
Teresa Palmer
posted by me at 6:38 AM
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