Movie: Lars and the Real Girl

Very good. Script was excellent, Ryan Gosling excellent. Everything about it just right. Maybe a little muddled toward the end, but still a nice original and fresh piece of work, never dull, always playing against expectations. Flirts with becoming psycho drama briefly a la Ordinary People, but these are just red herrings to keep you…

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Movie: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Confessing that I did miss a bit due to sleep, I still was underwhelmed. Admirable at least that it's unconventional, yet not somehow very original. Would have liked to see Werner Herzog make the movie, someone with more edgy panache. Schnabel can be mediocre. Seems to condescend to the medium.

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Movie: A Little Night Music

As much as I'd come to love listening to the music in my ripe middle age, did I deplore the missteps elisions and dated cheesiness of this movie. Cutting "Liasons" so clearly and awkwardly from the final cut was the final indignity. A little nightmare…

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snippet

“do I get to be a creative lamb, a little baby who just pleas for understanding in compensation for all of my ugly behavior because after all I have the gift!” the answer be no.

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Vomiting

The bride had such a good time at the reception that she vomited and passed out in the getaway car. Very cool. That’s the way it should be, unbridled delight and vomiting in the presence of people who love you and don’t judge.

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fat

stores stuff which your body can’t manage to break down and digest. a protective mechanism to get the foreign and toxic stuff away from your functioning? is this why, as digestion gets less efficient as we age, people put on fat more readily

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Bad Day

1) Sarah Schenck disregarded by explicit quote of 10 days ago and now thinks I am charging too much to edit – $400/day….2) These people who want a wedding videographer, that I have debased myself into accepting, are now being choosy and won't hire me–the humiliation3) We have no assurance that Hart will get into…

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