Suddenly Sunday!
For me, Sunday is catch-up day. (Or "ketchup" day, if I suddenly decide to start eating something out of the ordinary for me that might require ketchup...) (i.e., cheeseburger & french fries, which I almost never eat.)
Anyway, Sunday is when I try like HELL to catch-up on all the email correspondence that came in during the week that I was not able to reply to. It is astounding how often Sundays roll around. It is also astounding how many items are still in my inbox from last Sunday, or the Sunday before, etc., that I still have not been able to reply to. It just overwhelms me. SO much email.
It is now 8:30 AM, on another brand new Sunday, and I am already wiped out and yet still have half a dozen important emails to reply to.
So I'm taking a break...
Yesterday, for career reasons that I can't really go into on the blog, I needed to re-watch The DaVinci Code, The Matrix, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Happy Saturday, gang. I don't think I budged from the bedroom the entire day. Well, I started out the morning by being in the grocery store at 6:30 AM. So I was technically "out & about" but you can hardly say that I was "among people."
What's really weird about that scenario is that I actually own all those movies. I didn't realize that I owned Raiders of the Lost Ark until I got discouraged trying to find someplace online where I could download it for free without having to give out all of my personal information. So I sat at my laptop, got very quiet, and then a light bulb went off in my head: Maybe I own the damn movie!
So down to the basement I went. And I mean way down into the bowels of it; the non-family-room part of my basement, where it's all still cement and exposed rafters and where I own every movie known to man on -- yes! -- video cassette.
And it turned out that not only do I own Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I also own Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, as well as Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. Who fucking knew?? I lose track of all this stuff. I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of movies on video. (I think I have every single movie made in the 80s, for sure.) (I even have Platoon , for godssakes!, which of course can reasonably be considered a "Johnny Depp" movie -- so how come it's languishing there amid the dust bunnies and the wee bonny spiders when it should have a place of honor in the family room in that heap of crap under the TV set where all the other Johnny Depp movies eventually get so lovingly deposited?) (Wow, did I just say "crap"? Surely, I meant to say "other gems of artistic profundity"...)
Anyway, not that I am likely to hang out and watch a happy, upbeat, smile-a-thon like Platoon all the time, as I am wont to do with other films perhaps more readily recognizable as "Johnny Depp movies" but still, you know? How weird of me!
It really was like a gold mine down there, gang. It is just astounding, the cool movies I forgot I owned. For instance, Get Shorty !! Was that one of the funniest movies ever? I'm going to try to re-watch it later today, if I get time. See if I still think it's really funny. I also own every James Bond movie ever made, as well. I totally, completely, thoroughly FORGOT that I own Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger!!! How insane is it to forget a thing like that??? This morning, starting at 5 AM, Fluffy and I watched Dr. No and most of From Russia with Love and neither one of us could have been happier. (Well, had vodka martinis been on offer, we might have been happier, but it was only 5 AM...)
I even have movies like Weekend at Bernie's -- a movie that I can not stress enough how stupidly, stupidly, STUPID it is, and yet I have seen it a number of times and it is stupidly funny. It's not like I forgot the movie ever existed, I simply forgot that I owned it.
When Harry Met Sally, Fletch, Throw Mama from the Train, Romancing the Stone, Say Anything, Jewel of the Nile, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Troop Beverly Hills, Sunset, Night Shift, Biloxi Blues, The Accidental Tourist, all the Police Academy movies and all the Naked Gun movies, and all the Nerd movies, the Back to the Future movies.... it goes on and on and on. It's insane.
Apparently, I like movies. (I guess it'll come in handy, now that I'll be working in the movies...) Jesus. About time, isn't it???
Anyway, Sunday is when I try like HELL to catch-up on all the email correspondence that came in during the week that I was not able to reply to. It is astounding how often Sundays roll around. It is also astounding how many items are still in my inbox from last Sunday, or the Sunday before, etc., that I still have not been able to reply to. It just overwhelms me. SO much email.
It is now 8:30 AM, on another brand new Sunday, and I am already wiped out and yet still have half a dozen important emails to reply to.
So I'm taking a break...
Yesterday, for career reasons that I can't really go into on the blog, I needed to re-watch The DaVinci Code, The Matrix, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Happy Saturday, gang. I don't think I budged from the bedroom the entire day. Well, I started out the morning by being in the grocery store at 6:30 AM. So I was technically "out & about" but you can hardly say that I was "among people."
What's really weird about that scenario is that I actually own all those movies. I didn't realize that I owned Raiders of the Lost Ark until I got discouraged trying to find someplace online where I could download it for free without having to give out all of my personal information. So I sat at my laptop, got very quiet, and then a light bulb went off in my head: Maybe I own the damn movie!
So down to the basement I went. And I mean way down into the bowels of it; the non-family-room part of my basement, where it's all still cement and exposed rafters and where I own every movie known to man on -- yes! -- video cassette.
And it turned out that not only do I own Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I also own Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, as well as Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. Who fucking knew?? I lose track of all this stuff. I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of movies on video. (I think I have every single movie made in the 80s, for sure.) (I even have Platoon , for godssakes!, which of course can reasonably be considered a "Johnny Depp" movie -- so how come it's languishing there amid the dust bunnies and the wee bonny spiders when it should have a place of honor in the family room in that heap of crap under the TV set where all the other Johnny Depp movies eventually get so lovingly deposited?) (Wow, did I just say "crap"? Surely, I meant to say "other gems of artistic profundity"...)
Anyway, not that I am likely to hang out and watch a happy, upbeat, smile-a-thon like Platoon all the time, as I am wont to do with other films perhaps more readily recognizable as "Johnny Depp movies" but still, you know? How weird of me!
It really was like a gold mine down there, gang. It is just astounding, the cool movies I forgot I owned. For instance, Get Shorty !! Was that one of the funniest movies ever? I'm going to try to re-watch it later today, if I get time. See if I still think it's really funny. I also own every James Bond movie ever made, as well. I totally, completely, thoroughly FORGOT that I own Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger!!! How insane is it to forget a thing like that??? This morning, starting at 5 AM, Fluffy and I watched Dr. No and most of From Russia with Love and neither one of us could have been happier. (Well, had vodka martinis been on offer, we might have been happier, but it was only 5 AM...)
I even have movies like Weekend at Bernie's -- a movie that I can not stress enough how stupidly, stupidly, STUPID it is, and yet I have seen it a number of times and it is stupidly funny. It's not like I forgot the movie ever existed, I simply forgot that I owned it.
When Harry Met Sally, Fletch, Throw Mama from the Train, Romancing the Stone, Say Anything, Jewel of the Nile, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Troop Beverly Hills, Sunset, Night Shift, Biloxi Blues, The Accidental Tourist, all the Police Academy movies and all the Naked Gun movies, and all the Nerd movies, the Back to the Future movies.... it goes on and on and on. It's insane.
Apparently, I like movies. (I guess it'll come in handy, now that I'll be working in the movies...) Jesus. About time, isn't it???
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