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Comments? Your movie reviews? I would love to hear from you! lauralu@mac.com
Lenore and Paula visited this weekend. Saturday we went to Eastern Market, and to Baltimore to have an Irish lunch at Aunt Zita's (she just returned from a trip to Ireland) and to visit the Visionary Art Museum. What a great museum! The museum focuses on artists who are self-taught, many just have a passion to create, many a mentally unstable obsession to create. (Joe says the making of this journal may fit into the latter category.) The museum web site has a better explanation. The exhibits are always interesting, sometimes funny, many times sad.
I took this as we were hurrying to leave Eastern Market to get to Baltimore. As soon as I took it I thought I should take another without the people in the background but decided I did not have time. Now that I see it I kinda liked those two guys in it.
Ice Cream Report
Sour Cherry Ice Cream, very good (****). Cherries were from Paula's
cherry tree. (Thanks!)
(How many can you name?)
Ice Cream Report
So far we have made peach (***), almond/almond nut (*****),
green tea (*), grape (****). I was not so sure about the grape
idea but it was quite good. Tart, sweet and creamy and, so far, the most
colorful. Here's a picture.
Some more movie reviews
And now before you nod off here is something to wonder about.
What's Up, Tiger Lily
Old 1960s Woody Allen film in which he takes a Japanese spy thriller and dubs
it with his own dialogue. It was probably inovative at the time.
Some of the dialogue was clever
Some more movie reviews
Lost In Translation
This movie was an exploration of Japanese pop culture as well
as the relationship between the two main characters.
Bill Murray is great. The story drags a bit in the center
but overall it was quite good. I was very aware of
the director's framing of shots but this was not a bad thing.
Better Luck Tomorrow A group of smart Asian high school students gone bad. It was pretty good. I was interested in seeing this after seeing the director's first really low budget film Shopping for Fangs
Kandahar I was not sure I liked this Iranian film especially after the first 15 minutes or so. It was an odd story of a woman who tries to travel through Taliban country to get to Kandahar, Afganistan. It was a bit heavy handed and seemed somewhat thrown together and improvisational. But I did like the beautiful stark landscape and its contrast with the bright colors that would suddenly appear in things like clothing and vehicles.
Here are some pictures from their website. I would just send you there but data does not travel so fast from Brazil and I insist you see this. If you want more go to Cia. de Dança Deborah Colker
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The new TV season has started and so far I am not impressed. Usually there are one or two shows that I really like and then after about 4 weeks they are cancelled. Some examples - Firefly, The Street, Greg the Bunny and The Tick. I was not even allowed that disappointment this year. But I am glad Scrubs is back and Angel has been given a breath of fresh air with a new setting and cast members from Buffy. I kinda liked Boomtown from last year and a couple of episodes aired this season but I just heard it was cancelled.
So I guess we'll be renting more movies and Sopranos' episodes.
Some more movie reviews
8 mile
A little bit Rocky, a little bit Flashdance, a little
bit Cinderella. Eminem does a decent job and the story was pretty
good. It was less violent than I thought it would be.
Blood Simple
Early Coen Brothers film from 1984 with a very young Frances
McDormand. It is about love, murder, double crossings and misunderstandings.
It had a nice tight story and a nice look.
Lilo & Stitch
We saw this on TV. What a cute movie! Nice story, great characters,
interesting animation.
The big excitement this week was the disassembling of the office trailer
that used to house my office at work. The office trailer was assembled
in 1991 and was supposed to be temporary. I moved in
March 1998 and moved out a year ago when they finally
realized the meaning of temporary and started moving people out.
A bunch of us who had offices in the trailer watched and took
pictures as they moved out the first set.
We walked around the patch of mud left behind to see if there were any
artifacts. Someone did find a Coke Classic can.
Sweet Home Alabama
This was ok - small town southern girl embarrassed by her roots
makes it big in NYC but has to go home to get a divorce so she can
marry a rich successful guy. No surprises here.
October 5, 2003
Trailer trash
Last weekend Joe and I went to the National Building Museum to see an exhibit
on elavators and escalators. You may think this is about as interesting
as an exhibit on homework and kleenex but it was really quite entertaining.
I think the National Building Museum is one of the most beautiful buildings
in DC and they have a great gift shop. We had lunch there and were
entertained by a bird who wandered around the tables.
Here I am taking pictures of the fountain
Entrance closest to the nearest building/bathroom Archeological site
My office was 3rd from the left
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