ooh, it's been a while
Sorry about that.
I've just been so busy that... oh. scratch that. No excuse here.
However, it's been a pretty eventfull couple of weeks. Lets see...
It's still cold. Brrr. We got more snow the other day, and a dusting again yesterday. We're now up to about a foot on the ground, and forcast of temps in the 40's on Friday next.
I posted a few more snow and ice pix on my flickr site, and one of them got picked up by an online news site for a story about the weather. Kinda cool.
Tuesdays with Morrie, my next show with Artists Ensemble, has started rehearsals. Today they're gonna start working the death scene. Oh joy. Multiple boxes of Kleenex are a staple on the SM's table.
S and I went out to see Babel last week. Can't really say that I enjoyed it. Can't say I hated it either. It's one of those movies that just is. It's overly 'artsy'. There are several plots intertwined (sometimes in a very tenuous manner) and interconnected. Loosely, and without giving spoilers, two Moroccan kids, with their fathers gun to protect the sheep, shoot at distant objects out of boredom: hyenas, rocks, tour busses loaded with pretty rich americans Pitt and Blanchett, who is wounded. A side plot concerns the kids left at home in San Diego with a live in Mexican nanny, who takes them to Mexico for a wedding. Another side plot concerns the deaf-mute daughter of the Japanese businessman who sold the gun to the Moroccan after a safari. The only way I could put the film in any kind of relevance was to analyze it in relation to it's title. Each of the storylines contains a breakdown in communication due to various means, either language, culture, age, or physical limitations. Overall the film was very pretty and gripping (I lost count of the number of times I said, "oooh, this isn't going to end well."), but definitly not mainstream, or even the best example of similar style movies of recent years (S, then loaned me CRASH, which is far superior a film to Babel.)
Went to a hockey game last night. The whole gang from NAT got together for it. Exciting game. Only three fights in the first 6 seconds; the refs let them get it out of their systems and then kept the rest of the game on a pretty tight rein. The goals were traded back and forth, with our Hogs scoring the final goal with only one minute left on the clock. Final score 3-2.
Last night was also a birthday party for Mrs Cobb, of Cobb party fame. Yup, great party. A lot of surprise guests, old crew people that started in Highschool, and are now in their mid 20's. Danica, Lisa and Holland. I jokingly called them my groupies when they were active. All very beautiful girls, who are now very beautiful young ladies, who were all drinking heavily. I even got to take Holland home after the party. No, alas, not in that way; She was going to call a cab to get home, so I drove her back to HER home, not mine. Though at the party there was a really fascinating discussion of the history of Cheap Trick, and her dad in particular. Great time.
Still no word on a job.
I'm finishing the plot for Robber Bridegroom at the Country Day school this weekend. Gonna get the plot to them on Tuesday, I hope, so I'll finish this now to get back to work. Party yesterday, Work today.
I've just been so busy that... oh. scratch that. No excuse here.
However, it's been a pretty eventfull couple of weeks. Lets see...
It's still cold. Brrr. We got more snow the other day, and a dusting again yesterday. We're now up to about a foot on the ground, and forcast of temps in the 40's on Friday next.
I posted a few more snow and ice pix on my flickr site, and one of them got picked up by an online news site for a story about the weather. Kinda cool.
Tuesdays with Morrie, my next show with Artists Ensemble, has started rehearsals. Today they're gonna start working the death scene. Oh joy. Multiple boxes of Kleenex are a staple on the SM's table.
S and I went out to see Babel last week. Can't really say that I enjoyed it. Can't say I hated it either. It's one of those movies that just is. It's overly 'artsy'. There are several plots intertwined (sometimes in a very tenuous manner) and interconnected. Loosely, and without giving spoilers, two Moroccan kids, with their fathers gun to protect the sheep, shoot at distant objects out of boredom: hyenas, rocks, tour busses loaded with pretty rich americans Pitt and Blanchett, who is wounded. A side plot concerns the kids left at home in San Diego with a live in Mexican nanny, who takes them to Mexico for a wedding. Another side plot concerns the deaf-mute daughter of the Japanese businessman who sold the gun to the Moroccan after a safari. The only way I could put the film in any kind of relevance was to analyze it in relation to it's title. Each of the storylines contains a breakdown in communication due to various means, either language, culture, age, or physical limitations. Overall the film was very pretty and gripping (I lost count of the number of times I said, "oooh, this isn't going to end well."), but definitly not mainstream, or even the best example of similar style movies of recent years (S, then loaned me CRASH, which is far superior a film to Babel.)
Went to a hockey game last night. The whole gang from NAT got together for it. Exciting game. Only three fights in the first 6 seconds; the refs let them get it out of their systems and then kept the rest of the game on a pretty tight rein. The goals were traded back and forth, with our Hogs scoring the final goal with only one minute left on the clock. Final score 3-2.
Last night was also a birthday party for Mrs Cobb, of Cobb party fame. Yup, great party. A lot of surprise guests, old crew people that started in Highschool, and are now in their mid 20's. Danica, Lisa and Holland. I jokingly called them my groupies when they were active. All very beautiful girls, who are now very beautiful young ladies, who were all drinking heavily. I even got to take Holland home after the party. No, alas, not in that way; She was going to call a cab to get home, so I drove her back to HER home, not mine. Though at the party there was a really fascinating discussion of the history of Cheap Trick, and her dad in particular. Great time.
Still no word on a job.
I'm finishing the plot for Robber Bridegroom at the Country Day school this weekend. Gonna get the plot to them on Tuesday, I hope, so I'll finish this now to get back to work. Party yesterday, Work today.
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