Catch Up Entry

As I try to record the past week's events, I have Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here playing, and I'm sitting in the kitchen in front of my Dell notebook eating hemp granola. No, I'm not going to be that goofy guy at the party who holds the same cup of beer all night and pretends to be drunk [stoned].

Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess

All around the mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun.
Pop! goes the weasel.

I've been trying to polish off three DVDs before having to return them, so that has kept me rather busy. I managed to watch Ma Mère starring 51-year old Isabelle Huppert [Google her]. An unnamed co-worker should check her out—she puts unnamed's older-lady faves Martha Stewart and Katie Couric to shame.

The movie is too over the top for me, with its fetishes, depravities and full frontal male nudity. I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters and the ending was stupid.

The second disc was Off The Map. You can go to IMDb to check these movies out. I will say that I really liked the kid in this film; usually I find 12-year olds irritating at best but the girl played by Valentina de Angelis was pretty, smart, and spunky—big-time junior high school crush material. I had difficulties with the abrupt character development, though. The IRS guy is ill at one moment, madly in love with the wife in the next, and then in the end, metamorphosizes into a renowned painter. Similarly, we don't see the husband progressively come out of his depression. He's completely withdrawn at the start and completely normal at the end with no in-between state.

That said, I'm very glad that there are enough like-minded people to produce movies like this. It's very slow paced, spartan, sublime, in other words, guaranteed to not do well at the box office. Great acting by all. Recommended for people who like the slow, sublime, and spartan.

I didn't get around to the third video.

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Shaula passed Red Cross Swim Kids level 6 on Tuesday.

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I have now lost 8 of 10 lbs., almost there!

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I filled in the census form Wednesday. Short and easy.

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Two good lines from a borrowed copy of Dave Toycen's The Power of Generosity:

[Generosity] is the lubricant that soothes our daily living...

Generosity is the first car in the train of virtues.