some things about the movies

1.  On Saturday, for Christmas, we went and saw True Grit.   You ought to go see it.

2.  On Sunday, when it started snowing, we went and saw The Fighter.*  I was expecting a regular (kind of boring) sports movie, featuring Marky Mark's abs.  It was way better than that.  I either didn't know or had forgotten that it was going to go hand-in-hand with this documentary that I just watched about the crack cocaine.  If you've got an hour, you should watch High on Crack Street first, and then maybe hit the Riverview and see the movie.  It is still a sports movie, but the training sequences (etc) are kept at a minimum.  It's a little long.

3.  Yesterday (snowday) I went and saw Jolie and Depp play at espionage in the Tourist.  Twists!  Jewelry!  Mobsters!  Outfits!  Boats!  Guns!  You get it.

*the smartest thing I did Sunday was leave my truck at the Riverview, dead center under the 95.  I'm staying in South Philly, so the next day I just walked over there (saw another movie) and got my truck.  No shoveling, no defrosting.
The dumbest thing I did that day was lose my wallet, I guess under the snow.  Bummer, but not the end of the world.

Christmas

got this.

chef

I'm cat sitting, and here's the menu board.

princess

This isn't about Christmas, this is about pillows.

Ikea makes pillows for side sleepers, pillows for belly sleepers, pillows for back sleepers.  They do not make (no one makes) pillows for burrowers.  My life is so hard.

Mike Snow

Here's another post with no pictures:


Mike Snow.  I think about this name a lot, and am finally putting it together*.   


I guess I first noted the whole thing, because "Mike Snow" is just a good, solid, regular-but-notable and nice name.  Then, just today, I realized that
1.  "Mike Snow" does that "Animal" song, that someone or someones put on a mix for me at some point.
And, AND
2.  "Mike Snow" does the music on the X-Files, which I am slowly but surely working my way through, and think about/talk about too much.


COULD IT BE THE SAME PERSON?  Performing songs about shapeshifting AND writing background music to a show that often features shapeshifting?  I spent about one minute on Google trying to find out, and mostly kept landing on some Swedish pop group called Miike Snow, which seems like a dead end.  Bored with researching, would be nice if someone could just tell me the answers.




*or not.

things taxi drivers have said to me this week

1.  "I can tell you're not American.  By the way you talk."  (?)

2.  "I think you work at a law firm. In the city." (?)  "I mostly drive a taxi."

3.  "You've very pretty.  But you have such short hair!" 

4.  "Maybe you and me, we play the lottery together?  If we win, you can't five five or six boyfriends.  Only one other boyfriend.  I cannot fight five or six."

pills

Here's a sweet painting that Kim found the other night when we were leaving El bar.

Lot of questions.