Aw, I loved those Wes Anderson videos. After the trailer for that new movie came out a couple days ago, my girlfriend and I watched Darjeeling Limited, because she had never seen it. Still good! I want to try Life Aquatic again. I didn't like it when I saw it in the theater, but maybe I'd like it better now?
I'm very confused about how this would even work. Since the three characters are all MAYBE SPOILER ALERT, um, in different places at the end of the series, and anyway they've been saying this show was going to be a prequel, what would the cameos even look like?
Saul runs into pre-cancer Walter White at the dry cleaners? Jesse (looking 10 years older than he did when the series started) calls Saul a bitch when he cuts him off in traffic?
:-/ :-/ :-/ indeed!
I have been feeling very stuck and sort of dissatisfied and depressed with my life for the last like... six months(?)(really? that can't be right...). Boo hoo me, right.
Anyway, on a whim, last Thursday I bought a bike on the way home from work, and now I am a biking machine. I've been commuting to work on the bike, taking recreational rides after work. I love it. It's amazing how much it buoys your spirits.
Today was a mix. Still some, "What the eff am I even doing with my life, I am the worst" but also some basically-successful social interactions and small workplace victories.
And because of the government shutdown, Slate has their political podcast on every day, which is great for anyone with a huge crush on Emily Bazelon. (Not saying who!)
I sometimes take a walk around 2:00 at work just to clear my computer brain.
And six weeks ago there was a public notice on this very big, gnarled tree near the water that said a city arborist (wut) had decided the tree was diseased and it was slated to be cut down. Several days later, hand-painted signs went up on the tree. "I'm not sick! Don't cut me down! I provide shade to the neighborhood" etc, with a Facebook group to join. One day I saw a group gathered around the tree, clearly discussing plans to save it.
Anyway, they cut it down yesterday. I saw part of the process on my walk. They used a crane and at least four workers and it was very involved.
Today there was a small pot of flowers someone had left where the tree was.
Actually, MONSTER HOUSE is pretty great for an off-brand (i.e., non-Pixar) 3D animated movie. It's not scary, obviously, but it has a very charming, Ray Bradbury sort of feel, and if we want something more family-friendly... that's my rec!
Just a friendly FYI (to Billy Zane?)(I guess?): "Sociopath" and "sociopathy" are sort of out-dated terms. Clinicians use "psychopath" and "psychopathy." Which, honestly, I think is weird, because people probably confuse it with psychosis. But there it is!
"A weekend in the RV,
cooking crystal,
what a nightmare-y plot.
A weekend in the meth lab,
eating funyons,
Jesse bought."
"A Weekend in the Country" from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZutBlUXUDI
I don't know. I'm sorry! :-(
Ummm, so this just occurred to me, but Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue," would've been a way better song to end on than Badfinger's "Baby Blue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiwMT77Csg
How do I email Vince so he can change it?
I had a little bit of trouble adjusting to the tone of the episode. Everything was very clean plot-wise, very inevitable-seeming, sort of resigned. Which felt unusual for Breaking Bad. From the moment that the keys fell into Walt's lap, to all his it'll-make-one-heck-of-a-story and I-think-the-police-will-find-ME-after-tomorrow comments, the message seemed to be, "Look, we all know what's going to happen, there's nothing you can do about it, so just sit back, relax, and watch." Maybe that's OK for a finale, but it wasn't what I expected. It was more of a quiet epilogue than one last climax.
Still, obviously A+++ episode and series. Would Cook Meth With Again.
Jessie+Walt 4ever RIP.
What if the Videogum Movie Club was about movies that are on Netflix/Hulu/etc, rather than or in addition to movies in theaters? Like, good movies that are older and we could watch together as a family without having to pay for a movie ticket and go out into the world?
(Also you are doing great, Kelly!)
I don't know. It may be that what upset Walt about Gretchen's interview was that Charlie Rose suggested that the Heisenberg brand was still in circulation, and Walt guesses that Jesse is still cookin'.
On the other hand, never underestimate Walt's ego, or the degree to which he think the wold owes him credit for his smarts!
It was my birthday on Monday and my girlfriend bought me a pound of chocolate from See's Candy* and I am disturbed by how much of it I've already eaten.
*I don't even usually like chocolate or sweets in general, but I love Butterscotch Squares and Scotch Kisses from See's, so it was 1/2 pound of each.
Matt Zoller Seitz said it really well over at Vulture in his re-cap:
http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/breaking-bad-recap-season-5-hank-dies-ozymandias.html
"I love how this scene is comprised mainly of the sorts of things that Skyler haters have been saying on message boards and in the comments sections of recaps since Breaking Bad debuted in 2008. It’s as if the show is using these same sentiments to rebut them: Walter’s voice is deeper and more monstrous, his tone more venomously cruel, than in any other exchange between him and Skyler. It takes the vicarious pleasure that some viewers take in the sight of milquetoast Walter White becoming The One Who Knocks and curdles it, makes it ugly, poisonous — as if the show is saying, 'This is what you wanted, isn’t it? Here you go. Choke on it.' "
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of the Ocean State.
The crew set sail for ol' New York,
but couldn't navigate.
The state had the smallest area
of all the colonies,
and the crew was ill equipped to work
its jewelry industry.
And the weather there could get quite rough,
and the cities wern't well-planned.
But the ship and its crew all came to love
the island on the land.
The island on the land.
Fisher & Sons. Nathaniel Fisher Sr tries his best to balance running a funeral home and caring for his young children and wife.
(I would genuinely watch this one all day long.)
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