Movie Reviews

Whip It with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore

This was a great, great movie. What made it so good? Don't ask me because there was no nudity or sex scenes, no car chases, and not one single thing blew up. All I know is that I really liked this movie. It was very touching.
Verdict: you should definitely go see this movie. And don't download it - buy or rent it because you'll want to see it again.

Up in the Air with George Clooney

I liked this movie right up until the end. And then I didn't like it anymore. I was kind of expecting it to have an ending that would make me feel better about George's life but it didn't and then it was just kind of depressing. Yeah, I ruined it for you too, what are you gonna do? So the first 99% of the movie was great, but the last 1% ruined it for me. Too bad.
Verdict: you should see this movie anyway. There is a good point in the movie about being human.

Party Like a Rockstar

Congratulations to Ferd and Erin on their wedding yesterday. It was a really fun wedding. It was very classy with a hockey theme. Seriously, it was classy, there were just a few little things that made hockey-ish. Table names were the names of various players (Canucks, past and present), they had a little hockey game so the new couple would kiss, and Ferd came out on rollerblades. So. Much. Fun. Anyway, my sister-in-law took the kids for the evening and dropped us off so we didn't have to worry about driving afterwards and, even better, we slept over at her house so we didn't have to drive home at all. The open bar at the beginning of the wedding and the bottle of scotch the VJ had hidden under the table made for a bit of a drunken evening. So. Much. Fun. Until this morning, that is. I haven't had a hangover like this in years. For the first few hours I couldn't even think about eating or drinking without feeling like puking. Once I got over that, it was just the headache to deal with. Thank God my SiL watched the kids because I ended up sleeping most of the morning. I can't party like the old days anymore.

People

I was reading some old blog posts and I remembered there was a button at the top to view the "next blog". As I clicked through it, I noticed something about the random blogs I was taken to: a lot of bloggers (on this website anyway) are writers of some sort or they read a lot. About 5 or 6 years ago, everyone and their dog had a blog (see, I'm a poet too) to talk about anything and everything. People wrote about their day-to-day lives and made comments about the things they experienced and saw in the world. I suppose people still do that, it's just in 140 characters or less now. Anyway, I guess it makes sense that people in the literary world will keep a blog, I mean, they are more interested in reading and writing than, say, a nerd like me. The only problem I find is that I'm not really interested in reading about their short stories or poetry or the book they read last week. I'm more interested in their actual lives. I like to read about people's everyday lives. The things that make them tick. Their real stories that got them to where they are now. Y'know, that's something I miss about working in the hospital: meeting hundreds of new people and getting to know their stories.

Easy-peasy

Something I'm going to start working on is using my internet habits to make money. If I could get paid to watch internet porn, I'd be a rich man. But, things like that don't happen so I have to find other ways. An easy one is AdSense. Kind of a no-brainer I suppose. Anyhoo, you guys should do it too.