Huh. Well, that was kind of stupid of me. Fortunately, I can just throw it in an envelope with the Guy Maddin Dracula ballet, and the early sixties paperback of Charles Addams cartoons I bought for you the other day.

stops pouting

Yay! Goodies in the mail!

Because, I'm always mindful of paying proper tribute to your inimitable style and rare beauty.

You are such a doll. Especially because you have this uncanny knack for saying these sorts of things when I'm having a meh-ish day.

Especially because you have this uncanny knack for saying these sorts of things when I'm having a meh-ish day.

::kicks bookmark to Jilli's LJ under the couch...::

Yes! I have that uncanny power!

Though it is absolute truth that I have right-clicked innumerable pictures of you, and have them stored in their very own velvet cage folder. Your beauty is pleasing to me, and I look through Jilli pictures the way some people flip through Italian Vogue.

The military recruitment ads that make war look like a video game piss me off; I hope the people they're aimed at can see through them.

Sadly, the whole point of 'em is to wow the yokels they're aimed at as effectively as possible. And I'm reminded more and more of Harry Harrison's Bill, The Galactic Hero, and its molecule thin dress uniforms, double medal sets (the nice ones for the telecast replaced by the pot metal ones when it's over) and it's any old arm will do limb replacement policy--hey, two right arms, all the better for saluting.

The military recruitment ads that make war look like a video game piss me off; I hope the people they're aimed at can see through them.

I saw one while I was watching The Magic School Bus. I was baffled as to what they thought their target audience was.

My local bargain theater, the Milpitas Cinema Saver 10 is due for demolition at some undetermined future date--the property it's on, sold last year.

I'm gonna miss that place, because, well, $3.50 evening prices, and $1.50 Tuesday shows, and film lineups more attractive than those of the Camera Cinemas, the long-established arthouse gone 12-plex, with a gallingly named "Art Annex."

Next week's schedule includes Beyond the Sea, Spanglish, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou double billed with The Mototcycle Diaries, A Very Long Engagement, The Polar Express, The Incredibles, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, The Work and the Glory.

Okay not first run, but of those I've only seen The Incredibles. For $1.50 I could save a slot on my Netflix queue. And--local science fair exhibits in the lobby.

The Work and the Glory

That went into general release? I thought that was a local/Utah movie, as it's based on the Mormon equivalent of Roots et al.

My favorite scene is the "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" number on the stage behind the curtain--so wonderfully sensual, filled with hidden longing between the two.

That was absolutely my favorite, too. It was beautiful, and seemed so much more real than all the feathered fruited nonsense going on elsewhere. It was just a lot subtler, and wonderfully sensual.

I just saw a Hungarian movie tonight, called "Control" that is due for a US release sometime in April. It was weird, but interesting. I liked it, but I don't think I ever want to watch it again.

Also, the makeup was really bothering me, because I knew I could do a better job.

But the movie was genuinely funny at times, scary at times, and terrible (on purpose, like sad/terrible) at times.

I saw one while I was watching The Magic School Bus. I was baffled as to what they thought their target audience was.

P-C, you were watching it, and you're of draftable age.

I think they've figured out that a lot of young cannon-fodder types still watch cartoons and such-like.

P-C, you were watching it, and you're of draftable age.

Point. But I was just kind of horrified, because I thought, "I wouldn't want my kid to see this while he's watching his fucking cartoon show." I had that instinctive shield-my-child-from-the-evils-of-the-world reaction.