TCM is on the most expensive digital cable package here. So unfair.

It is here in SF too. Very annoying.

But since I've pretty much decided buying a new TV so I can go cable-free will pay for itself in six months, the question is moot. (And yes, I know I could get a converter thingy, but since I've never bought a new TV in my life I figure I'm due.)

Hey, do you want a 19 inch picture tube TV for free?

Thanks, but I have a free picture tube TV now (that means the traditional kind, no?). My understanding is that I'd need a digital converter/antenna to get broadcast if I give up cable, right? I figure if I'm going to that trouble I should just get a new TV already. Plus, I want to go slightly up from the 21" I have now.

Darn. Mine picks up some shows without the antenna, even living in Belmont, but it is still too small.

Goodwill it is!

Saw Tinker, Tailor...today.

Whoever programmed the previews clearly had no idea who was going to see this movie. We got previews for Titanic, the next Underworld movie, Safe (Action! movie), and the obligatory Focus Features release (with, in this instance, Robert de Niro).

Quite a good film. I went back and read previous posts and did a bit of wikipediaing, and they really did (using the phrase "gay it up" feels wrong, as the tone is not at all appropriate--what with the fucking tragic--but I cannot come up with a better term) . I adore that they depend on the viewer to figure shit out, rather than saying things explicitly (ita !'s comparison to Inception is apt, as that spent a shitton of time expositing, and people still found it confusing...now I'm imagining what Inception would have been like if it put as much onus on the viewer...apart, of course, from "far less profitable"...probably a lot like Primer). I'm glad I sprung for the ticket (and a drink, just to support showing Interesting Movies Without Fart Jokes Or Car Chases in multiplexes), as I doubt I'd have focused well enough watching it at home.

I really want to know if the "the future is female" graffiti outside the Secret Location House was organic or a design choice. Similarly, Guillam's blue tie, which nearly glowed onscreen.

Massive points to the casting people, as I had no trouble telling characters apart, which is often a problem I have in the "men talk to other men while they all wear suits" genre (and in other genres, but that's the relevant one).

ita !, I didn't notice any flashback indicators, but I also had little to no trouble telling when we were in flashback from context clues.

I just watched a bit of All The Real Girls (2003)

Filmed in my home state! I went to college with one of the PAs, we were friends freshman year and then he transferred to School of the Arts. I saw it in the theater with my gay roommate on Easter, slightly drunk. I enjoyed it, but I saw it as kind of an (intentional or not) answer to French existentialist films (as I understand them through Animaniacs spoofs).

So it turns out that my sister missed a large portion of iconic 80's movies because her parents didn't let her see anything rated more than PG and also because she was born in 1986. So I'm making her a movie night box. Popcorn, pop rocks, Tang and the following movies:

Ghostbusters
Real Genius
Breakfast Club
Footloose
Say Anything
One Crazy Summer
Terminator
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fatal Attraction
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Stand By Me
Lost Boys
Ferris Bueller
Goonies
Risky Business

I have yet to see Footloose. And Hubby's in it.

Tang? Are you trying to scare her away?