Okay, so the drought ended this weekend.  I went from zero movies ever in my life to seeing four in just under 24 hours.  What the hell.  Anyway, here's the rundown.  And before you ask, I'm conditionally for the Michael Vick thing.  The oceans of grayscale here are almost limitless, and the man's level of play will go a long way in my mind, as will his continued involvement in animal cruelty prevention programs.  Anyway, let's get back to this.  In order:

Dead Snow
Not as good as I'd hoped. The previews made it look spectacular but the execution wasn't nearly as great as I'd hoped.  It was like the filmmakkers watched Evil Dead and copied it, not understanding how things have changed in the last 25 years.  There was a lot meta going on there "Fortune and glory kid, fortune and glory..." but it wasn't enough to make it awesome.  I had hoped, but no.

Zardoz
What a flick.  The picture of Sean Connery that's been floating around Facebook got Kevin interested, and he managed to get a copy running on the XBMC (awesome, BTW).  It was spectacular.  Awesome in the original sense of the word.  The Speedo with the dual bullet bandoliers and the knee-high boots, all in red?  I smell a halloween costume, right?  Anyway, go see it.

Julie & Julia
I haven't read the blog or the book, and I don't have a lot of interest in doing either, but it seemed like the movie really whitewashed Julie's opinion of Julia.  If the movie were all there was, the crazy foodies wouldn't have felt the need to savage the blogger to save the cranky old chef.  If the chef is cranky.  I don't know.  My mom said it made her want to host dinner partys but not cook Childs' foods, but I kinda liked that cool thing they did with the fish.  If only they used more tomatoes.  I have a couple more coming due this afternoon, so I'm taking applications.

District 9
Oh what the hell.  Everyone's lauding this thing as the greatest sci-fi since The Matrix which was the greatest sci-fi since Star Wars, which means you should definitely stay away from the sequels.  The special effects were great, some of the best I've seen, but  that doesn't get the story moving faster or give the apartheid-again plot any more punch.  I don't know.  Didn't hate it, but it wasn't great.

The rest of the weekend was pretty fun, too.  Went to the beach, did some drinking at the Dime and generally relaxed in between taking in all those movies.

Turns out that a new site doesn't mean I update more.

Mom came last Thursday and she gets up early, so my normal morning writing time was interrupted by social time, which is infinitely better for me.  Friday, we went up to Santa Barbara and had a little wine, which was fun, then ate a late lunch at the Mustard Seed, a restaurant that I'd believed closed just a couple of weeks before.

This weekend was Emily's Birthday and BootieLA and yesterday was meetings on Il Punali and then helping Rachel and Rachelle move.  Today is getting back to the grindstone and doing some errands, so I'll do that now.  Not fun, I know, but if I'm going to be having any fun in the upcoming weeks, it's going to be due to the work I'm doing now.