Did You Know That Fish Have Eyelids?

12Jul07

Hello!  Here I am!  Nice to meet you, my name is Chris and I run this here Bed and Breakfast…..

*squiggly*squiggly*squiggly* (that’s the enter/exit dream sequence effect)

Woah!  I have no idea where that came from.  I should get checked or something because that is just NOT normal!

Well, apart from thinking of titles that have nothing to do with the actual entry itself and then trying to excuse them by pretending it was a dream sequence, I have nothing.  Don’t you hate those times where you just got done with something big, like a summer vacation, and then there’s something else big, like going home to Phoenix, but there’s just over a week in between the two and you’re stuck whittling your thumbs.  Man this sucks.

Whittling?  Is it twittling?  Dingaling?  Uh, this is confusing.

So, I watched two movies today.  One was Poseidon and the other was The Bourne Supremacy.  Although neither was mind-blowingly awesome, I think that if you stood them side-by-side, you could definitely see which one was based on a novel and which one wasn’t  Poseidon, although it being a movie that never really lost my attention, was a movie that counted on the explosions and wet women to do that.  (I’m not saying I was staring at the wet women…. Oh wow, I really got myself into a bind on this one.  I hope my girlfriend isn’t reading!)  It had a weak plot, if any at all, which consisted of a group of 10 tries to escape a capsized cruise ship.  Yeah, you could probably get the entire movie from those few sentences.

The Bourne Supremacy was, ok.  You could tell it was a book, but they just didn’t transfer it from the pages to the screen very well.  Again, not a bad movie, but it seemed to be dwelling on one thing the entire movie that could have been resolved in the first fifteen minutes.  Had a pretty good twist though.  Maybe it was because I was tired.  I don’t know.

My girlfriend bought Stranger Than Fiction today though, and I’m VERY excited about that.  If you haven’t seen that wonderful piece of cinematography, I highly recommend that you do.  You won’t regret it.  Let’s just say that this movie probably did for Will Ferrel what The Truman Show did for Jim Carrey.  Prove that he can act and act well. 

For my closing, I think that I’m going to adopt a practice that my friend Laura Trujillo uses to conclude her blogs.  It is two points that have nothing to do with the entry.  So here goes.

Two things:
1. The World Series of Pop Culture rocks
and
2. I need to get glasses again.

Tags: Dreamsequence, time, movies, Poseidon, Bourne Supremacy, Stranger Than Fiction, Two Points

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