Category Archives: movies

Apr4

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind

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Sean and I watched this movie yesterday and we really enjoyed it! I so much prefer Jim Carrey in more serious roles, if you can call his Joel character serious. I really like Kate Winslet too and had just seen her the day before in Finding Netherland. In ES she has an American accent. You’ll love her technicolor hair too. Some of the supporting roles were miscast in my opinion like Kirsten Dunst was too young for the character she was playing. If you see the movie you will understand what I mean.
I don’t want to get into the plot, but it was different and if you don’t mind an occasional cuss word, then all the more better. Plus, they show a date written down (the only one in the movie, if I’m not mistaken, and it’s my birthday-November 19th (2003). Pretty cool.
See it for Jim and Kate. See Finding Neverland for Johnny Depp, Kate and the little boy who plays the real life Peter….and the guy who plays Nana.

Feb23

Ray and Jamie

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Now if you haven’t seen Ray, run out now before the Oscars and rent the DVD. Jamie Foxx is so good, you’ll forget it’s him and think it’s the real Ray Charles throughout the movie. People magazine is predicting a Best Actor win for Jamie. What’s interesting too about Ray Charles is that he and my mom Jeanne were born on the exact day (sorry for divulging age mom)-September 23, 1930. And my mom has a trained soprano voice, so two musical babies were born that day. So as Ray’s mom pushed down in Georgia, my grandmom Ruthie was busy up in Roslyn, PA welcoming her only daughter.
Sean went to Wally World (Walmart) over the past weekend and I asked him to either get the new Kenny Loggins cd or the Ray Charles cd (see sidebar) for me. No Kenny, so he got Ray. I’ve never bought a Ray Charles record in my life. I love his classics, but leaned toward folk rockers. There are lots of ‘duets’ with Ray that I like, especially James Taylor. Incidently both Ray and James fought heroin addictions in their lives. Ray sings with Norah Jones, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt and Michael McDonald- I like them too, with a few others like Diana Krall, Willy Nelson and Johnny Mathis. Sean sat and listened to the entire CD. You can hear Ray’s age a bit (or the effects of illness), but for a 73 yr old, he was still doing it.

Update:
Got my van ‘Winnie’ back tonight (Windstar-stop laughing) and she sounds better! Ken worked his butt off fixing her and trying to figure out what’s going on with the diffferent noises. We are taking her back in a few weeks for inspection and hopefully we will be able to drive her more.
More freakin’ snow is coming tomorrow morning! We may get up to 8 inches. Lord have mercy.

Jan28

Quote Geek-Ferris Bueller’s day off

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I am tossing magazines. I had to start somewhere. Lucky for me, the magazines I am tossing had weblinks. Here is a cool one I found. Plus if I want a good laugh, I’ll do back to this entry.
(1986) Comedy. Written and directed by John Hughes.Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Simone: My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.

Ferris: Not that I condone facism; or any ism for that matter. Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in ‘Beatles’, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the Walrus. I could be the Walrus, I’d still have to bum rides off of people.

Ferris: Oh, I’m sorry I can’t come to the door right now. I feel that in my weakened condition I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences.

Ferris: This is my ninth day missed. Cameron, I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing this for you.
Ferris: If anybody needs a day off, it’s Cameron. He has a lot of things to sort out before he graduates. He can’t be wound this tight and go to college. His roommate’ll kill him. I’ve come close myself. But I like him. He’s a little easier to take when you know why he’s like he is. The boy cannot relax. Pardon by French but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond.

Jean: Oh, fine. What’s this? What’s his problem?Joyce: He doesn’t feel well.Jean: Yeah, right. Dry that one out and you can fertilize the lawn.

Heard that you were feeling ill, headaches, fever, and a chill. I’ve been sent to restore your pluck..cause I’m the nurse that likes to.. (door slam)

Ferris: If you’re not over here in fifteen minutes, you can find a new best friend.Cameron: You’ve been saying that since the fifth grade.

Ferris: Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.

Girl in hall at the high school talking to Ferris on the phone: Ferris how’s your bod? (Brian’s favorite)