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[Jane]

We had such a lovely day & Keith was kind enough to take Sherlock & me for a hike.  After returning home I had phone calls to return & then it was time for my exercises.  I then had dinner, answered a long email & then began catching up on the posts.

I finding explaining my day away, & why I wasn't posting rather boring. 

I could go into detail on my exercises & how one series always makes me feel like throwing up and/or passing out from the pain.  The good news is, they are working.  I can tell when I go to therapy.

[Matt H.]

For some reason, I thought I'd look through Starz On Demand. I'm not sure I had ever pulled it up before, and I was ASTONISHED to see that they have a section called EARLY PREMIERES: movies that will eventually be shown on the network but which they're offering now. Among them were THE PROPOSAL (which I reviewed already on Blu-ray so I didn't need to see it) and the movie I selected to watch tonight:

JULIE & JULIA.

I simply loved it. THough I had read disparaging things about the Amy Adams sections, I was captivated by both sides of the story and couldn't wait to get back to either one when the other was on.

Like BABETTE'S FEAST, it made me immediately want to get in the kitchen and cook something scrumptuous (preferably with tons of butter). Oh, that food looked heavenly. What a joyous movie!

When the vocal version of "Time After Time" came up over the last scenes, I was sure that was Meryl singing, so I had to hang around to see in the credits who it was: Margaret Whiting. What a great rendition of one of my all-time favorite songs!

[Jane]

I'm jogging a little on my hike, just as I used to, without too much increase in pain.  My arm is swinging more naturally when I walk on a flat surface or downhill, oddly I still need to hold it close to my body when I go uphill.

[TCB]

Personally, I love hearing about the long musical, about recording sessions, productions of THE BRAIN, and work sessions on all of BK's books.

[Jane]

Nice art work MBarnum.

[Matt H.]

So, I'll start looking for a reasonably priced edition of JULIE & JULIA on Blu-ray to add to my archives. I can't wait to see it again!

[Jane]

My wrists and shoulders are hurting from typing, sooo

'night  Sweet dreams & sleep well tonight.

[Matt H.]

Tomorrow I'll go back to work with the DVD of Criterion's SUMMER HOURS. I've never seen it and know nothing about it except wh the stars are. So, it will be something totally new.

[TCB]

Will you be observing Earth Hour tonight?

I'm not sure if i will do it.  They have notices in my town about doing it. So maybe.

What earthly reason can you have for not doing it?

[Laura]

What's Earth Hour?

[bk]

You know what I miss about HHW (besides certain DRs who have left) are the live chats. Those were always so fun.

BK, do we not do the live chats anymore because they take away from the posting totals? If so, why are the posting totals of such importance to you? Just curious.

We don't do the live chats because the company that put that together kept changing things every time I turned around - from the cost, to passwords and how the log-in worked and frankly I just couldn't keep up with all the changes and would forget passwords and log-in stuff, so I just let it lapse.

[bk]

I like anything Amy Adams is in, so I had no problem with those sections of the film.  My only problem in those sections of the film is that I really did not care for the actor playing her husband.

[bk]

I ate way too much food - pasta salsiccia (sausage and pasta in a light marinara), salad, bread and then chocolate mousse - I could not finish the latter.

[bk]

I guess I'll go sit on my couch like so much piggish fish and try to watch something.

[TCB]

Hmm.... No posts in over an hour?!?!?

HARUMPHH!!!!

Oh, the horror!

 

And no, TCB , Facebook in and of itself isn't very interesting or entertaining unless you are engaged in some game or other in which many other people  are also actively engaged.  In Mafia Wars, for instance, I have a "personal" mafia of 650 players....all of which were added one-by-one to help me grow and increase my strength in the game.  And the stronger I am, the more useful I am to other players who have different numbers of people in their mafias.  It's interesting, it's fun and it's not at all judgmental about how I spend my time there....nor does it care if I visit other sites.

 

Ron, I certainly wasn't making a value judgment about Facebook.  I was only saying that for me, personally, five minutes is about the extent of my time there.  I understand that there are a lot of activities that people are involved in that don't interest me.

[bk]

Hmm.... No posts in over an hour?!?!?

HARUMPHH!!!!

Oh, the horror!

 

And no, TCB , Facebook in and of itself isn't very interesting or entertaining unless you are engaged in some game or other in which many other people  are also actively engaged.  In Mafia Wars, for instance, I have a "personal" mafia of 650 players....all of which were added one-by-one to help me grow and increase my strength in the game.  And the stronger I am, the more useful I am to other players who have different numbers of people in their mafias.  It's interesting, it's fun and it's not at all judgmental about how I spend my time there....nor does it care if I visit other sites.

 

Ron, I certainly wasn't making a value judgment about Facebook.  I was only saying that for me, personally, five minutes is about the extent of my time there.  I understand that there are a lot of activities that people are involved in that don't interest me.

TCB, many people here and elsewhere feel as you do.  And many people here and elsewhere think Facebook is the second coming, just as it was once thought that MySpace was the second coming - of course, MySpace is now considered useless and very yesterday, and I have no doubt the same thing will happen with Facebook as soon as the next thing comes along.  I think history has shown that to be the case.  The good part of Facebook is occasionally being found by interesting people you either knew or didn't know at all.

[Matt H.]

I like anything Amy Adams is in, so I had no problem with those sections of the film.  My only problem in those sections of the film is that I really did not care for the actor playing her husband.

I thought he was fine. The little spat they had which split them up was very predictable and conventional, the only part of the film I didn't care for. (The exact same thing happened in another Streep project: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. The minute the ingenue gets engrossed in her job, suddenly she's letting everybody down, and it's just an insipid conflict that writers fall back on that seems lazy to me.)

[Matt H.]

Found JULIE & JULIA for $10.97 on Blu-ray at the Marketplace. Add $2.97 shipping, and it's mine. Already ordered.

[Matt H.]

I have also been catching up on some of the world skating performances since I had no access to them except on the internet. Finally got to see Brian Joubert's long program (not bad but filled with trifling mistakes and one fall. Plus, even though he did a quad, he had no triple-triple combinations. He put a double toe loop with the quad and later with a triple lutz, both less than he should have been doing). I'll watch Michal Breznia's free skate tomorrow. I also watched Marai's beautiful short program, the best she has ever skated.

From reading about the ladies' results in the free skate, I'm not sure I want to see ANYONE's long program. Even Yu-Na, who won the long program, didn't skate cleanly.

[Matt H.]

Now, I'm heading down and going to bed. Since I finished my taxes today, tomorrow morning can go back to being a normal morning with my walk and my workout regimen. Nice to get back to normal.

Good night!

[JMK]

KGW has decided to pre-empt L&O for THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS.  We are not amused.

[DERBRUCER]

...their scripts and music will be left outside.

Studio City is melting in the dark
All the cheese and ham hunks flowing down
Someone left the script out in the rain
I don't think that I can bear it
'Cause it was so hard to repair it
And I'll never have that energy again
Oh, no!

der Brucer

[Cillaliz]

The film festival was fun tonight and with abotu 350 people it was well attended. 

[Cillaliz]

There were also about 350 people.  I think abotu maybe a foreign place...I didn't see anyone from abotu there

[DERBRUCER]

...tomorrow morning can go back to being a normal morning...

Unless those EarthHour nuts turned off the sun!

der Brucer

[JMK]

Oy!  What a day.  Trips to and from the new house.  Setting up for the Ms. Canadian Contemporary Christian Diva concert (metaphorically speaking), then for the past hour, the CL gauntlet here at home.  Both the Aquos and the incredibly heavy Kurzweil are gone.  There is a stack o' cash on my bedroom tray which the kids are lusting after as they ponder patricide. 

[bk]

In honor of Earth hour, I turned on, tuned in, dropped out.  I was eating during Earth hour and used no electricity whilst doing so.

[DERBRUCER]

There is a stack o' cash on my bedroom tray which the kids are lusting after as they ponder patricide. 

Do the lads have Betsy as an ally?

der Brucer

[FJL]

Caught up on yesterday and trying to get through today, but i'm getting sleepy.

[DERBRUCER]

I was eating during Earth hour and used no electricity whilst doing so.

So, no air circulating; no pool pump; no refrigerator; no clock on a TV box,  oven, or Microwave; no Internet Modem?

der Brucer