We got up at 6:30am and took a cab at 7am to the Hertz rental place in midtown and drove for the next three hours to New London, Connecticut. Then, we grabbed a taxi from the Hertz drop off place to get to the docks. We waited there for about two hours and took a 2 and a half-hour boat. The boat arrived at 2:30pm. A total of 8 hours of traveling just to get from NYC to Martha’s Vineyard. Is it worth it?
During the entire trip, the answer was a decided no, but now that we’re here and I can hear the crickets and the seagulls, I’m having second thoughts. It might be a pain in the ass to get here, but it’s like a little piece of heaven on earth, which must be the reason we’re willing to repeat this ordeal several times a summer.
Oh, btw, another movie following on the theme of “I am woman, hear me roar” is: Woman on Top. 2000 must be the year when women finally become independent. At least as far as Hollywood is concerned…
We just saw Whipped and, as I suspected, it was awful. A great look at how pathetic some men are. The acting was worse than awful but the some of the scenes were sadly realistic. At one point, the guy sitting next to me actually said, “Thank God I’m gay.” I kid you not.
Here, in New York, it’s pouring. What a great way to end a terrible summer. Weather-wise, that is. I sure hope it gets better tomorrow or it’ll be kinda pointless to travel all the way to the Vineyard.
Double Indemnity, on the other hand, was very good. My favorite part is where he says he couldn’t hear his footsteps. I liked that image.
Bond market closed and we all got sent home. Yeay!
I finally got A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius from the library. I haven’t read it yet, but even the blurbs on the back cover are amusing. I’m sure this book won’t disappoint me.
Ash: A Secret History has a full version published in the UK while it will be published in four parts in the US. Hmmm, a marketing ploy you think?
A Clockwork Orange was also published differently between the UK and the US. Actually, the US version didn’t have the last chapter. In the intro of my book, which did have the entire set of chapters, Burgess talks about how his American publisher thought the book ended better if the last chapter were left out. When Kubrick made the movie, he used the American version of the book, therefore, left out the actual ending. Burgess said that, for years after the movie was made, he got letters from his European readers asking why the ending was excluded. He was quite pissed about it.
Btw, that was one strange book.
Gonna go see Whipped tonight. The sad thing is that I already know it sucks. I think that, after a long week, I just want to relax and see a totally stupid movie that doesn’t require any mental capacity. I’m quite sure this one will qualify.
It’s Friday! Love Fridays.
It seems we can’t use the phrase going postal anymore cause it’s upsetting the postal workers and it’s a myth. Hmmm.
What kind of country changes their grammar and spelling rules?
I know there are a lot of flash haters out there, but I must tell you, it’s a thousand times more annoying to go to a page and have a javascript error pop up on your screen. Since I have Visual C++, my explorer always asks me if I wanna debug or not and if I accidentally hit ‘Yes,’ there goes IE. Pain in my ass!
We’re watching Ace Ventura: Pet Detective right now. It’s definitely Jim Carrey‘s most hilarious movie ever. I liked The Mask, too, but it’s nothing like Ace Ventura. My favorite quote is: “If I’m not back in five minutes… just wait longer!” It’s a shame they had to go and ruin it.
Having spent most of the day fixing my damn PetriNet, I’m glad that I finally got the “syntax check successful” message. I don’t even wanna think of all the problems it will give me once I try loading it into the database. I guess the steam ran out of my Thursday. I might be bored or tired. I think I’m ready for the weekend. What about you?
Wanna know your real age? I’ve started getting tips from them daily and some of the tips are quite interesting. Today’s tip says that it’s bad to read in bed. If you can’t fall asleep, get up and read in a chair, it says. Save your bed for sleeping.
Thursday might be my favorite week-day. It’s a day when you know the week is almost over, but not yet and you enjoy the anticipation. I seem to get more work done on Thursday than any other day. Wednesday is kinda neat as it’s the middle of the week but there are still two more days to go. Friday, you know it’s over and you’re not really motivated, you just wait for the day to end, so you can go home. Anyhow, I’m enojoying my Thursday this week.
A McSweeney’s article for people who love angels. It’s quite funny.
Mel C of the Spice Girls says she wants men, not women. I know you wanted to know.
Take my poll, won’t you?
Here’s the link to the fire I mentioned last night.
In case you didn’t already know, coffee is bad and chocolate is good. I’m glad everyone agrees.
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