07.14.06
Posted in Life, Vacation at 1:21 pm by Jamie
As of tonight, I’m on a week’s vacation to my Grandparent’s cottage in Manomet Massachusetts. (In the Google map picture, it’s the little gray square closest to the sout-western corner of Scooks Pond) I haven’t been to the Cottage in 6 years, and I’m quite exicted to be going again. It’s strange… I haven’t been in so long, but I can still remember the smell of the place… the salt tang in the air. The crappy dirt road leading up to the cottage. The smell of Honeysuckle growing by the pond.
So, on Saturday morning, iolarah and I start the 10+ hour trip (with my parents) to Massachusetts. I want to be there now.
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07.10.06
Posted in Life, Movies at 9:25 am by Jamie
Man. I can’t believe how behind I am in posing movie impressions!
Two weeks ago (on opening night) I saw Superman Returns with a good friend. Short review with no spoilers: I loved it. They really captured the feel and the characterizations were great! Definatly a see-in-the-movie-theaters movie.
Last night I saw A Scanner Darkly with a co-worker. This has to be one of the best book-to-film movies that I’ve ever seen. The paranoid tone of the book was preserved intact, as was the humor and sadness conveyed by the characters. Several of my favorite parts of the book are rendered perfectly by the cast. Which is another thing: I loved the casting. Robert Downey Junior and Woody Harrelson as burnt-out drug addicts isn’t a stretch, but even Keanu was good. Very surprising. The strange style of animation really suits the movie, once you get used to it. All and all it is a very brilliant and dark movie by Richard Linklater.
For anyone who likes Philip K. Dick in Toronto, go see A Scanner Darkly at the Varsity theater. It’s 100% worth the price of admission.
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