BeeJayC Digest

oh yeah... review of movie Where the Wild Things Are : well, for me, this really was crap. I don't know if it's Spike Jonze's take on it, or if maybe the book is crap. Sendak was perhaps fiddling with some packet-mix psychology ideas... it just came across to me as home-baked, didactice, cliche, "wot-the-hell??" kinda stuff, or maybe I just got bored. It was kind of fun to watch for a little while, but faded quickly. Liked the music though.

Review of movie The Visitor: I enjoyed this movie thoroughly. I especially liked the development of the main character, whereby the character went through some major changes/developments, but did not lose integrity and turn into a completely different character... you know, like what happens in soapies. I thought Richard Jenkins was a good choice for this role.

Here's an old pic i dug up of me and vern in the 60s!


Yes, we live in Tomorrow World, and in the 60s our kitchens were more modern than yours were.

ps. everybody: garyann turned 17 yesterday!

it's very embarrassing that I had 6 people over who never met him before and they're all going "oh, how old is he?" and "oh! 17?! he doesn't seem that old!"... and i didn't even remember it was his birthday! all day!

bad mother!

so here he is, a day later, playing dead with Monkey....

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today while annergray and i were out for lunch, i said to her "i think there's something living inside me that gets angry in the sun".... because we had just been agreeing about how much we hate being stuck in the sun, especially on a hot day... but annergray thought I said "I've got penguins living inside me that get angry in the sun".

bahaha!

which then of course led to a short exchange (and enactments) regarding the reports that Michael Jackson was planning to reveal some kind of "penguin dance" before his death occurred.