burn baby
ack, it's been crazy. now that i have entirely too much on my plate, i find myself making time in these parts. indeed. somehow i'm able to find extra time to do things when i feel overworked and underpaid. go figure.
my new-found love of soccer went awry this weekend when i watched fcd and reading both get beat 3-1. damn fools. jeffer's door felt the brunt of it that night, but i'm sure alvarez will be hurting for a bit longer...
the nano write-ins are going well (though none of you have bothered to show up). i'm only a couple hundred words short of where i should be, so, fingers crossed, it won't be such a pain this year.
and with all this going on, i'm somehow managing to catch up on my netflix -- finally. i need a break from all the "cheeriness" of my hong kong obsession -- any suggestions?
given that i work with entirely too many brits of varying degrees, i'm somewhat disappointed that bonfire night is something we don't celebrate here. perhaps we'll just drink beer, though it's not like we need an excuse for that.
things that i would throw into a bonfire:
- the entire houston dynamos team
- all my junk mail piling up in the corner
- my cell phone bill -- transatlantic calls can be pricy
oh, and something that smells pretty while being burned.
and because it's been much too long since i've seen this:
posted by jen @ 1:39 PM
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I'm recommending 1970s film festivals. Midnight Cowboy. Dog Day Afternoon. Taxi Driver. That'll knock the cheeriness out of you.
Oh wait, "cheeriness" is in ironic quotes. Are you looking for real cheeriness?
I'm not surprised at Reading getting beaten, when a side is promoted to the Premiership their away form tends to slip as they're now playing on grounds much bigger than they're used to. There is no standard size for a football pitch and the bigger clubs have bigger pitches - it takes some adjustment.
Films. Hmm, OK.
Cheery:
- "Jour de Fête
- "School For Scoundrels" (the original one)
- "Some Like it Hot"
Not Cheery:
- "The Conformist"
- "The Bicycle Thieves"
- "Koyaanisqatsi"
The last one isn't depressing in any way, it just isn't funny.
yeah, the "cheeriness" isn't so cheery. it's been a wong kar wai/zhang yimou festival in my apartment for a while, and though they've been great films, i need to get out of my head a bit.
dog day afternoon's in my queue so i can bump that up, as is the bicycle thief, and i'll check out the others that i don't know.
thanks guys!
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
Network is sometimes kinda funny. Shampoo also.
Seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High recently? It's a guilty pleasure. Also Car Wash.
I looked at my Netflix returned rentals list. They're almost all dreary. What's wrong with me?
I'd throw something in the bonfire that turns the flame an odd color and momentarily threatens to explode.
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