For Katrina - updated

Kit Kat requested a movie review section. For now I will do a quick and dirty assessment of the movies I can recall watching: the letter A is a good movie, the letter B is an okay movie, the letter F is a bad movie, the ? mark is a movie I am indifferent about, and an A++is a great film. I will also review television series as I have been watching these a great deal more than movies. I will add to this list when I remember more of what I have watched. It is 2:00 a.m. and my recall is spotty. Also, Trevor dragged me to a few of these and I am sure he would rate them differently.

In Theaters

• Frost Nixon - A+
  
• Rachel Getting - A+
• Gran Torino - A
  
• Twilight - ? (It did not live up to the book)
  
• Four Christmases - F
• Quantum of Solace - B
  
• Role Models ? (I laughed three time but Trevor liked it.)
  

Movies on DVD

• The Dark Knight - A
  
• Burn After Reading - ?
• War Inc. - F
  
• Be Kind Rewind - A(Maybe I liked because I spent years working in a video store)
• The Walker - B
  
• Wanted - A (High marks because Angelina is HOT in this flick)
• X-Files - A (Good movie if you are really into X-Files. Boring if you are not fan)
• Vantage Point - ? (I didn't like it but Trevor did)
• Untraceable - F (Horrible but Trevor liked it)
• Tropic Thunder - F (Even Trevor hated this one)
• There Will Be Blood - A
• Smart People - A
• Step Brothers - ? (I didn't like it but Trevor laughed and liked it)
• Run Fat Boy Run - B
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 - B
• Pineapple Express - A+
• Mama Mia - A
• Leather Heads - ? (I was BORED but Trev found it entertaining.)
• Lars and the Real Girl - A+ (loved it! loved it! loved it!)
• Kung Fu Panda - F
• Iron Man - A
• Hulk - B
• In Bruges - B
• I Really Hate My Job - A
• Hancock - F
• The Happening - ? (It would have been bearable if Mark Wallberg wasn't in it.)
• Hellboy - F (Trev made me go and it was worse than I could have imagined.)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall - B
• The Cleaner - B
• Cloverfield - F (Horrible!)
• Charlie Wilson's War - A
• Bank Job - B
• The Brave One - A+
• Baby Mama F
• Before the Devil Knows Your Dead - A+
  
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - B
  
• Factory Girl - B
• The Assassination of Jesse Jame by the Coward Robert Ford - A+
  

TV on DVD

• Wire in The Blood - A
  
• The Wire - A+
  
• The Tudors - B
  
• Prime Suspect -A
• Damages -A
  
• Hustle -B
• Battlestar Galactica -A+
• State of Play - A++++++
  

New Year

Holidays have never been my thing but I have to admit to being excited over the changing of years. Last year was rough and I am looking forward to a fresh start. Lists of resolutions dance in my head but I haven't landed on any one in particular. Sure, I want to be healthier and happier but I am not sure if those resolutions are enough. Perhaps I need to resolve to be okay with how things are right now. At times I feel like we are all either in the past or the future; No one is in the present. Presently I am in my cozy house filled with mammals that I love. I wonder why that is never enough.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Mom's birthday. She would have turned 54. She really was a beautiful woman both inside and out. Growing up, friends would always comment on her beauty but I never really I saw her as beautiful until I got older. Mom hated birthdays and the attention that came with them. When she was well she was the most selfless, understanding and compassionate mother anyone could hope for. I choose to remember her when she was well not when she was ill and not herself. I am still trying to come up with a magnificent way to celebrate her life and all I have come up with is to live in the moment and not dwell on the past or plan for the future. Happy Birthday.

Genetics at Work

Here are two photos that prove being a dork is genetic. In the first photo my little brother is on the right. In the second photo my little sister is on the left. I love them for so many reasons. Today I love them because they make me feel a little less like a dork. The full impact of the second photo can be felt with a quick double click.

Planning for Halloween

With Apple Fest over I am left to focus on Halloween. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Halloween has great food - pumpkin pie, candy corn, popcorn balls. Halloween has great books - "The Halloween Tree" and "Something Wicked this Way Comes." My favorite Halloween book is "Something Wicked This Way Comes." You would think I would tire of the book after reading it for twenty-one Octobers. Every time I open those pages I am as terrified as a twelve year old. Since I can't dress up like my favorite Bradbury characters, I decided to dress up as one of my favorite Star Wars characters: Chewbaccha. After pricing faux fur and calculating the enormous amount I would need to cover my ass, I decided to buy some white poly/satin and dress up as Leia. White poly/satin is only $4.00 yard - $24.00 to cover my ass. Halloween is scary!

Apple Festival '08

Apple Festival always has hundreds of people, tons of food and view of the Lake. We can't stand all of the people and remind ourselves of this every year but we keep going back for the food and the view. Fall doesn't begin without a visit to Apple Festival.

October Begins

Today I spent a good amount of time near Lake Superior. Lake Superior is its most beautiful in the fall. Feel free to click on the photos to enlarge them.