Snowy Day
Friday, March 9th, 2007
We got lots of snow on Wednesday! Now, it is all gone. That’s the the Long Island Railroad that runs behind the apartment building, I hear it all night and day. It sits behind what used to be a donut factory, thank goodness that closed down because the smell of donuts was a bit much in the hot summer months. It’s a pretty cool looking building though.
Anyway, It snowed a lot on Wednesday, and since I’m still recovering from Bronchitis (pesky little nagging cough acts up in the cold) I stayed in and worked from home. At one point I took a walk to the corner store, because we had run out of olive oil and we all know how important it is for cooking; I mostly use it to pop popcorn over the stove with. Some day I’ll start cooking real food again. Home-cooked popcorn goes great with my various netflix selections. The walk was beautiful, the snow was powdery and fresh, lots of untouched snow to trample on, but alas, the pesky cough came back so I had to cut it short.
I’ve been catching up on a lot of movies lately. I told you I watched Rocky 6 at Christmas-time, but had never seen 1-5. So I watched all of them. I liked 1 & 2, but 3 - 5, eh, kinda silly. The music in Rocky 5 was terriblie, too many bad guitar riff’s. But I have to admit, I am still rooting for the Italian Stallion. I wonder why Adrienne didn’t want to come back for Rocky 6, and instead they had to kill her off? Hmmm. She’s such a strange character that Adrienne. Also, I had never seen Risky Business (because I really loath Tom Cruise) but it was on cable so I watched it. I also watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show (not as good as I had hoped for), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (wonderful), and next is Grease. I’m not much into musicals, whether on Broadway or the screen, but I will watch Grease because it’s a classic after all, and there are so many references to it, and honestly, I like that TV show with people trying out for the new Grease broadway musical. I can’t believe I like the show, and don’t really like musicals. Some of these new shows, they just trap ya I guess.
My most recent delightful movie-watching experience came from seeing what has become one of my new favorites, The Science of Sleep. It is from the same writer/director (Michel Gondry) who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was also very clever. The Science of Sleep is an absolutely hilarious and innovative movie-watching experience, please check it out! I connected with it so much, because I get so many of my own wierd ideas from dreaming, whether at night or just daydreaming. If you have a chance, watch the making of, it will blow your mind how much of their own blood, sweat and tears the team put into literally making the set. Have you ever had one of those experiences where you watch something and you respond to it instantly, like it’s something that could have come out of your own head? This is it for me! This movie is really creative, and funny and I really value the artistic production of it. It’s nice to see something clever once in a while, really inspiring!
