Yesterday, I decided I wasn't yet ready to send the summer of 2009 off to the history books, so I donned a tasteful (yes, they exist) Hawaiian shirt, a sting of hooka shells (so much for 'taste', eh?), and set off for one more day of summer.
As I was trying to explain to the incredulous checker at PCC that summer wasn't over - and 'it's a state of mind thing', she said, "Yes, this is a great September". I shot back... 'Oh NO! We're still in August-thank-you-very-much'. She said, "Then it must be August 52nd".
Tonight, there's a beach bonfire scheduled at Golden Gardens park - I'm planning on bundling up, because I think someone left their air conditioner on, and their door open wide. Silly energy wasters! Will I make the Northwest Tea festival at Seattle Center? The jury is still out... ;?>
I left a movie suggestion for a fellow filmmaker friend today - my current favorite film "Music Within"... here's what I wrote there...
Just added 'Requiem For a Dream (2000)' to my NetFlix queue - thanks for the suggestion.
Here's one for you: "Music Within (2007)". A bio-pic covering the life of Richard Pimental where great performances on a shoe-string budget prevail. Yet the Hollywood marketing machine had no idea how to promote this film so it flopped badly. When even the DVD box looks like a cross between a shameless romcom rip off (i.e. "The Holiday") and a feel-good holiday movie (i.e. "The Family Stone"), one begins to see why no-one got the opportunity to 'Get This One'. Hardly anyone saw it, much less 'got' it.
The film doesn't cover the protesters ditching wheelchairs at the base of the US Capital Building steps, and crawling up to the entrance, but an unexpected slice-of-life film where things never turn out exactly as we might hope... sounds like life to me.
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Thanks for commenting on my site. I indeed have reviewed Salo, but I didn't link it to my 1001 Movies page, so thanks for pointing that out. In fact I believe my review of Salo is particularly insightful, so I invite you to check it out.
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FilmSquish is another film person who's using the "1001 Movies To See Before You Die" as a 'guide' for picking movies where you can't think of anything else to watch. Only he's blogging about them... and it makes for great reading! Check it out.
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