Well, dear readers, here it is, Sunday, the beginning of a brand spanking new week. Whether it will be a fine week or a blah week only time will tell. But what if time doesn’t feel like telling, then where will we be? We shan’t know whether it’s a fine week or a blah week because time would be moot on the subject. Moot, do you hear me? But, perhaps time will tell and then we shall all know whether it’s a fine week or a blah week. What the hell am I talking about?
Last night I went to a screening of a motion picture entertainment entitled Phone Booth. It was a watchable film, I suppose, with many stupid elements. Colin Ferrell, an actor I do not care for, was okay here, I guess, but there’s something about him, even after his “redemption” that I find unappealing. It is sad to see a director in his sixties (Joel Schumacher) trying to be “hip” and “with it” style-wise, doing all those unnecessary and vapid style things like step printing to speed up certain shots (a la The Matrix) in a totally meaningless way. It’s mercifully short (87 minutes which includes five minutes of credits) and, as I said, certainly watchable. I always enjoy Forrest Whitaker, and the “caller”, who is basically just a voice until the very end of the film, was very good, too. I then came home and watched Laputa – Castle in the Sky, an anime from the maker of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. This guy, Hayao Mayazaki, is the real deal. Laputa was made in 1986, and while it’s not quite as assured as Spirited Away, it’s imagery is wonderful and vivid and unique and its story (I guess Disney kind of ripped it off for Treasure Planet) is interesting and even emotional at times. Thankfully, this new Disney DVD has the original Japanese track (I find that as well-done as the English versions are, they just cheapen the films somehow), and the beautiful score is Mayazaki regular, Joe Hisaishi, who is becoming one of my favorites of the current crop of film composers. I also picked up Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service. They’re all two DVD sets and have tons of extras. I also got the new Harry Potter movie which I’ll watch tomorrow night.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because there might just be some interesting tidbits, or, at the very least, some interesting bittids awaiting. Only time will tell, damn its eyes.
Interesting tidbit 1: Tonight we will be having our weekly Unseemly Live Chat, so I do hope many of you will attend, because it might just be both wild and wooly, not necessarily in that order.
There is no interesting tidbit 2, unless you count the fact that I will be supping with dear reader Ann later today, prior to her attending Stritch. Then on Tuesday, I will be supping with dear reader’s Laura and Kerry, not necessarily in that order.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must organize some things which need organization, I must clean some things which need cleaning and I must prepare for our Unseemly Live Chat. Today’s topic of disussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you get to post about anything your collective hearts desire. So, post away, don’t be fritterin’ away your noon time, supper time, chore time, too, because then ya got trouble with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “Post”. I’ll check in later to see all your excellent posts, and then I’ll see you all at our Unseemly Live Chat.