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Jul. 12th, 2003 10:43 pmGot to use the rest of my Borders gift certificate today. I found two wonderful items.
* A copy of one of my favourite movies, Quills, which I just mentioned in my last entry because of the Geoffrey Rush factor. On DVD. For eight bucks. At Borders, people. The last place I'd look for good prices on DVDs. It's a full-fledged DVD, too, widescreen and everything. I wonder what fantastic thing I did to deserve such a gift.
* A Year at the Movies, by Kevin Murphy. You know how you see a book, and it's by someone you like so you're interested, but you're doubtful of the subject, but maybe you have some extra money or a gift certificate, so you buy it anyway, even though you expect it to be a little boring? And then you get it home, and sit down with it, and next thing you know you've been reading for four hours and your brain is starting to overload and you're having trouble concentrating on the sentences and understanding their precise meanings but you just don't want to stop? A Year at the Movies is like that. Kevin Murphy was one of the crew at Mystery Science Theater 3000 - he voiced and puppeted Tom Servo - hence my interest. However, the concept of the book - Murphy spent a full year attending a movie every single day, and did a lot of travelling in the process - sounded dubious to me, like a self-conscious project by a man not ready to let go of the thing (movies) that provided him with fame for so many years. Well, you know what? Shame on me. This book is a pleasure to read. Rather than merely putting together a collection of reviews of all the movies he saw, Murphy chose to write a chapter about each week, with a different topic or a certain gimmick, such as the one about people who get up and down and of course are sitting in the middle of the row rather than the aisle seats, or the one where he tried to live on a diet of concession stand food for a week. The book isn't so much about movies as it is about going out to see movies. Best of all, though, Murphy is eloquent and charming and funny and so very obviously adores his topic. I love this book. Click on the link above and buy this book.
And after I spent last night and some of this morning reading a book about going to the movies, I went to the movies. Rikki and I saw Pirates of the Caribbean today, and I was right. It was so, SO much better when I was alert and able to concentrate.
( There are spoilers under this here cut tag, savvy? )
Of course that's not all. But, in spite of what the time stamp is telling you, it has actually become Saturday since I started writing this, so I'm thinkin' maybe I need to let go a post now.
* A copy of one of my favourite movies, Quills, which I just mentioned in my last entry because of the Geoffrey Rush factor. On DVD. For eight bucks. At Borders, people. The last place I'd look for good prices on DVDs. It's a full-fledged DVD, too, widescreen and everything. I wonder what fantastic thing I did to deserve such a gift.
* A Year at the Movies, by Kevin Murphy. You know how you see a book, and it's by someone you like so you're interested, but you're doubtful of the subject, but maybe you have some extra money or a gift certificate, so you buy it anyway, even though you expect it to be a little boring? And then you get it home, and sit down with it, and next thing you know you've been reading for four hours and your brain is starting to overload and you're having trouble concentrating on the sentences and understanding their precise meanings but you just don't want to stop? A Year at the Movies is like that. Kevin Murphy was one of the crew at Mystery Science Theater 3000 - he voiced and puppeted Tom Servo - hence my interest. However, the concept of the book - Murphy spent a full year attending a movie every single day, and did a lot of travelling in the process - sounded dubious to me, like a self-conscious project by a man not ready to let go of the thing (movies) that provided him with fame for so many years. Well, you know what? Shame on me. This book is a pleasure to read. Rather than merely putting together a collection of reviews of all the movies he saw, Murphy chose to write a chapter about each week, with a different topic or a certain gimmick, such as the one about people who get up and down and of course are sitting in the middle of the row rather than the aisle seats, or the one where he tried to live on a diet of concession stand food for a week. The book isn't so much about movies as it is about going out to see movies. Best of all, though, Murphy is eloquent and charming and funny and so very obviously adores his topic. I love this book. Click on the link above and buy this book.
And after I spent last night and some of this morning reading a book about going to the movies, I went to the movies. Rikki and I saw Pirates of the Caribbean today, and I was right. It was so, SO much better when I was alert and able to concentrate.
( There are spoilers under this here cut tag, savvy? )
Of course that's not all. But, in spite of what the time stamp is telling you, it has actually become Saturday since I started writing this, so I'm thinkin' maybe I need to let go a post now.