New computer and off we go (and movie catchup)
My new desktop has been set up and it's weird to see my mail in outlook again. Still hoping that the emails/contacts will be pried off my old hard drive.
And tomorrow morning (if the weather permits-it's supposed to rain --hard) I will be off to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon for the weekend. I will be online periodically.
Back Wed night late.
Movies I've seen lately:
The American with George Clooney, as a mysterious moody ...spy/assassin/whatever --it takes a while to figure out what--is being hunted by some Swedes and off he goes to Italy for a job and to hideout. This is a very European film-understated, not all that much action, with the only recognizable (to me) actor being Clooney. I loved it.
On netflix:
The Lookout, watched because Joseph Gordon-Levitt of Inception is in it and someone here recced it. Good movie but he's sooo young in it that I couldn't drool. Young guy from rich family is brain damaged in a car accident and now works as a janitor in a bank. He's "befriended" by an older guy who has plans to use the kid.
The Men Who Stare at Goats was much better than I expected. A satire about government conspiracies with George Clooney as a trained psychic ninja (basically) and Ewan McGregor (with an American accent that keeps slipping) as a journalist trying to find out the TRUTH.
Ponyo a sweet, but less than topnotch Hayao Miyazaki movie about a little boy and a princess who happens to be a goldfish. Love ensues. Wizard daddy disapproves. Moms come to the rescue.
And tomorrow morning (if the weather permits-it's supposed to rain --hard) I will be off to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon for the weekend. I will be online periodically.
Back Wed night late.
Movies I've seen lately:
The American with George Clooney, as a mysterious moody ...spy/assassin/whatever --it takes a while to figure out what--is being hunted by some Swedes and off he goes to Italy for a job and to hideout. This is a very European film-understated, not all that much action, with the only recognizable (to me) actor being Clooney. I loved it.
On netflix:
The Lookout, watched because Joseph Gordon-Levitt of Inception is in it and someone here recced it. Good movie but he's sooo young in it that I couldn't drool. Young guy from rich family is brain damaged in a car accident and now works as a janitor in a bank. He's "befriended" by an older guy who has plans to use the kid.
The Men Who Stare at Goats was much better than I expected. A satire about government conspiracies with George Clooney as a trained psychic ninja (basically) and Ewan McGregor (with an American accent that keeps slipping) as a journalist trying to find out the TRUTH.
Ponyo a sweet, but less than topnotch Hayao Miyazaki movie about a little boy and a princess who happens to be a goldfish. Love ensues. Wizard daddy disapproves. Moms come to the rescue.