Hairspray. A pretty funny film, and I usually don't like musicals.

Rushmore - never heard anything about it - went and saw it and it restored my faith in films.

(i'm also discovering how old people say 'oh i know its going to rain because my knee/shoulder/elbow is hurting' is freaking true - my broken collar bone is in agony because of some weather system moving into NY today - arrgghhh)

Poor Monkey. *gentle HUG*

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Just recently The Wizard of Gore remake was a surprising success in the Chrono household. The boyfriend and I expected it to be abysmal, but it was a great surprise. I know I've already recommended it, but I will CONTINUE to recommend it until everyone sees it. :D

Also, I'd say that American Beauty was a surprising discovery for me. I was a senior in high school and I had watched it before its critical hype. It was the first movie that I had ever seen that actually made me close read film and consider it part of an art form. It's interesting thinking back on it - That movie honestly affected the way that I look at films now and really inspired me as a movie snob.

Prior to that, there was Pulp Fiction. I had heard the hype about it, but it was the kind of movie that's best experienced through viewing. I was still in high school and it was like nothing that I had every seen before (ie Tarantino specifically did NOT use mood music and instead used sound track to create mood - a technique that either I had never noticed or never seen before in movies).

Okay, another discovery:

32 year olds do not have the endurance of a 22 year old who drinks frequently.

As a result, I no longer have the vodka (dumped out what i didnt drink the night before), and I know that my wife loves me enough to take care of my dumb ass when I drink too much...


The nice thing is that i discovered when i was about 25 that Chicken McNuggets of all things make me feel better when i have a hangover, so I downed a 20 piece last night :)

Ginger Beer.

First time I heard of it I thought it sounded horrible. A fizzy drink made from the stuff those little guys are made of? Now I'm hooked on the stuff.

this year at the fan-con we met Sean Austin .. super nice down to earth guy.

so on Saturday - while waiting to get into the theatre to see Spamalot - I popped into a discount book store next door to kill some time - and i found a book : There and Back Again : an actors Tale - by Sean Austin.

I wasn't expecting much but i thought the guy was cool - i'll check it out.

I'm only in 100 pages or so and i have to say already - it's one of the best - if not the best - book i've read about the business of film. (and we havent even gotten into the Lord of the Rings stuff yet.

interesting guy .. someone who's actually learned and matured along the way.

He's al;ways struck me as someone who has his shit together. He apparently took the Samwise roll epretty seriously, to the point that he kept an eye on Eliga Wood the whole time they were filming.

Amazing, too for a guy who's parents were both celebrities themselves.

Not the geezers around where I live. They start hitting the triple martinis and scrip meds around 8 in the morning, play a round of golf, hit the clubhouse, get in their jags, hit a telephone pole or pedestrian, off to the lounge by 6, more meds and a cigar and then a quiet evening home with the wife- drinking and snorting coke.

on celeb spottings - i ran into woody harrelson in new york once and he is really really creepy guy

Does it have much about the film Toy Soldiers?