Ah, Thanksgiving week. I handle Canadian accounts for the company I work for, so I mostly work the week like any other.
But now I'm taking a break from a much OT-worked week or two. And SG-wise, I'm pleased to say I've a nice picture on the way from Annisa (thank you for the friendship again, it was nice meeting you online here). I belong to the Geezer group and the Detroit group. I'm going to go looking for a book group and a movie group. I saw a college football one, wonder if there's a Pistons or NBA one...probably is. I can trash talk with some Miami Beat fans. heh. All in fun, all in fun. Nobody get too ruffled, please. Hopefully some Utah Jazz fan won't pummel me with the Pistons dismal recent history against them.
"Not the Jazz, we can't beat them!!"
Anyway. One of the things I like most about this site is the way it can fit different moods. Tastes, well, there's maybe a little less wiggle room there, but I'm not unhappy about that. But there's all sorts of different things for whatever mood someone is in.
Beware my randomness. I understand it's a Taurus trait, if you put faith in astrology. I just know it's one of my traits, stars or sun.
I saw "No Country For Old Men" - twice. Excellent. Hit the Texas note dead on, if you ask me. My uncle lives in San Antonio and actually knows Tommy Lee Jones. Says he's definitely a Texan, live there long enough and you go a little crazy. The, I don't want to say deadpan, but the understatedness of what is said in that movie is great. I had to see it twice to pick it all up. I know I'll see it again when it comes out on DVD. The ending is priceless, and the audience reactions are great. I think it was a perfect ending. But what I liked best about the movie was what wasn't said or shown. You have to figure stuff out, connect dots, think along with the characters. It's not hard, it's not a puzzle, but it's engaging. It is unlike some movies, which practically have a narrator saying things like, "look, here is the bad guy walking towards his victim!" And that's all for the better.
Tonight I watched "The Ox-Bow Incident" while working from home. There was lots of downtime as things uploaded from my old, glued together laptop. 1943, Henry Fonda, movie about a lynching. Good enough, not great. Fantastic role for the youngest Anthony Quinn I've ever seen. But as far as mob justice movies go, I prefer "Fury" or "Bad Day at Black Rock" both with Spencer Tracy.
Anyway, that's it for me for now. I've updated my profile a bit. Anybody interested, drop me a line. Dunno if anybody really reads these much, there's so much else to see and do here. But who cares, it's fun to write.
I'll poke my head into the group things later this week.
Be good, take care.
But now I'm taking a break from a much OT-worked week or two. And SG-wise, I'm pleased to say I've a nice picture on the way from Annisa (thank you for the friendship again, it was nice meeting you online here). I belong to the Geezer group and the Detroit group. I'm going to go looking for a book group and a movie group. I saw a college football one, wonder if there's a Pistons or NBA one...probably is. I can trash talk with some Miami Beat fans. heh. All in fun, all in fun. Nobody get too ruffled, please. Hopefully some Utah Jazz fan won't pummel me with the Pistons dismal recent history against them.
"Not the Jazz, we can't beat them!!"Anyway. One of the things I like most about this site is the way it can fit different moods. Tastes, well, there's maybe a little less wiggle room there, but I'm not unhappy about that. But there's all sorts of different things for whatever mood someone is in.
Beware my randomness. I understand it's a Taurus trait, if you put faith in astrology. I just know it's one of my traits, stars or sun.
I saw "No Country For Old Men" - twice. Excellent. Hit the Texas note dead on, if you ask me. My uncle lives in San Antonio and actually knows Tommy Lee Jones. Says he's definitely a Texan, live there long enough and you go a little crazy. The, I don't want to say deadpan, but the understatedness of what is said in that movie is great. I had to see it twice to pick it all up. I know I'll see it again when it comes out on DVD. The ending is priceless, and the audience reactions are great. I think it was a perfect ending. But what I liked best about the movie was what wasn't said or shown. You have to figure stuff out, connect dots, think along with the characters. It's not hard, it's not a puzzle, but it's engaging. It is unlike some movies, which practically have a narrator saying things like, "look, here is the bad guy walking towards his victim!" And that's all for the better.
Tonight I watched "The Ox-Bow Incident" while working from home. There was lots of downtime as things uploaded from my old, glued together laptop. 1943, Henry Fonda, movie about a lynching. Good enough, not great. Fantastic role for the youngest Anthony Quinn I've ever seen. But as far as mob justice movies go, I prefer "Fury" or "Bad Day at Black Rock" both with Spencer Tracy.
Anyway, that's it for me for now. I've updated my profile a bit. Anybody interested, drop me a line. Dunno if anybody really reads these much, there's so much else to see and do here.
But who cares, it's fun to write.I'll poke my head into the group things later this week.
Be good, take care.