The whole house is filthy. Cat vomit everywhere, a Monday standard, it seems, messy litterbox, bags everywhere, if only I had a bag hutch, rotten fruit, a moldy pockmark from where the fly burst out, dirt on the floor, laundry everywhere.
On the plus side, it's Christmas season and I'm going out to a buffet tonight. Oh how I love the buffet. I wish I had a taste for fine foods, slow-paced dining by candle light, but really I'm more of a trough man. I believe everybody is.
I will clean, however boring it sounds. A) It'll warm up the house, B) I'll do something useful (for once) and C) Shut your face!
I watched three movies. A)The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenmenthol. Set in a department store, everybody needs to find love. Luckily for two quirky and under-motivated clerks, they find each other, only they're weird so it's dramatic. Could've been better. Somewhat uneventful. Good independent production, in the way that it was shot, indy-style, and Gyllenmenthol and Aniston acted great, but I didn't see the chemistry between the two characters, a flaw of the script, I suppose.
"Poltergeist" was okay. Somewhat lame, and very Freudian. "Spider" was good. Very eerie. Ralph Fiennes stars as a crazy man out of the loop fallen down behind everything else living with constructions to ease the pain. He goes to a half-way flop-house operated by one of his constructions. As a boy, he experienced severe family trauma and since hasn't been able to distinguish reality from moving on, and the past creeps up into his present day. Very alone movie, slow shots.
Cleaning can be a wicked way to recharge the old batteries. I find that once I start, I can't stop.
I've been meaning to watch _Spider_ for quite a while - it sounds worth it.
Posted by: ben at December 13, 2005 11:53 AM