I signed up for a 4 week trial of Blockbuster online three days ago and received my first movies yesterday and today. Three days isn't so bad; apparently there's a distribution center in Denver (one of the original 10) so the time to send/recieve should be tolerable. I think I'll be able to anticipate wanting to watch a movie 3 days prior, but I'll keep watch.
I saw I Heart Huckabees with Jack and Amanda yesterday and found it to be a scattered and sophomoric pseudophilosophical (ie, trying to be too smart) plot with an ensemble cast. They used Jason Schwartzman to the proper effect, though. He was exactly the right combination of alternative eager, as per Rushmore. Whee. I watched most of About A Boy tonight (scenes 15-19 of 20 were scratched) and decided that were I 1) rich, 2) in England, and 3) looked like Hugh Grant, that's exactly what my life would be like right now, scratches and all (he finds happiness, but the crucial scenes where he experiences the turn around - flawed!).
Blockbuster, if you're keeping score, you suck since 50% of the movies I've watched (33% of the ones I've received) have been scratched or “unwatchable,” according to your website. (Don't worry, Blockbuster, dear, you've got weeks to make it up to me.) I have American Chai for later on.
I returned Huckabees today, so we'll see how quickly the next one on my list, Talaye Sorkh, arrives. I'm still looking for something that'll rss/xml/export my queue, so I can share it with other people. If anyone comes across something, please let me know.
Movies, I'm starting to think, are like little 2 hour books, but not really - only in the way that they're engrossing. They're, at the very least, a way to soak up an annoying spot of time that's lying about. I've been meaning to catch up on a list of movies I haven't seen, but it's bittersweet - at some point, my list won't overlap with anyones. I suppose it'll be back to venturing outside into movie theaters!
She's on vacation tomorrow until the 16th and it couldn't've come sooner. Except, today, all day, she's been talking and talking and talking. I absolutely loathe listening to music when I work - I like it quiet - since I find it very distracting yet, today, I have earbuds firmly (not firmly enough, really) in my ears attempting to control the constant innundation of loggarhea coming from just over my cube wall. Yes, everyone knows that you're going on vacation, it's for your birthday, you think Oprah's great (dispite what she whispers), your husband coaches volleyball, you've been married 38 years, you love flowers, you love even more giving out advice, and you love even more than that if the advice is about flowers. Shut up, seriously. Work? Do some. If you're going on vacation tomorrow, do not use today as a little launching pad.
I hate working in a cubefarm.