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Proof (2005)

Watched 4/26/06 Gorgeous film. Beautifully acted, and brilliantly transferred from the stage. What is insanity, is it hereditary, how can she deal with loss, love, an over-bearing sister, and the proof she wrote, without thinking maybe she's crazy. Like all human trials, she has to get thru it, and decide for herself where she's at and what to do next. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:54:20 PM

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Watched 4/23/06 Everybody already knows by now that this is a great movie. No sense in me repeating it. For me this was a fascinating look into a place and time and the lives of two people who loved each other but couldn't be together. Their story was well presented that it was heart breaking. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:48:56 PM

Atari 2600

When I was a kid I had one of these. I got it second hand, a bit late in the life of Atari, in it's decline actually, but I loved it. I had friends with Nintendo, and I scoffed. I preferred the Atari. But at some point I stopped using it, and I think my mom and I decided to sell it in a yard sale or something, and it was gone. Not to be thought of much for ten years or so. Then recently I learned that Mike had one in storage and we got to talking about it, and wishing it was around, and so he got it out of storage and he picked up some games on Ebay and at the thrift store, and we've been having retro fun playing River Raid, Frogger, Centipede, Pitfall 2, Pac Man, Combat, Donkey Kong, etc... I think that these are a lot of fun, even a relief compared to the intensely complicated games that are being made these days. Misc Reviews item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:45:57 PM

Dark Angel, Season 2

Finished 4/21/06 The second season was not as good as the first. We still like the characters, so we zipped thru it anyway, but it turned into "monster of the week" and really flopped around for a long time. Max gets infected with a virus that is only deadly to Logan so that there is this insane "I want you, but can't touch you" dynamic going on. The worst excuse for this I've ever seen. It was completely lacking in a decent story arc for the season, which was disappointing. They kill off Lydecker in such an off-handed/mysterious way that I was expecting him to not really be dead, and suddenly pop up again, but no, he was just gone, but no body was found at the scene of his car wreck. And when they finally hit their stride with a story and an actual "enemy" towards the end, it's a bit fascinating, but it goes nowhere, because they were hoping to do that in the third season that never happened. Very frustrating. But despite all that, I liked Alec, and Joshua. Very different, but rich characters. And we watch the finale twice, with commentary the second time to learn about all the things they had been hoping to do the show. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:37:09 PM

Prime (2005)

Watched 4/14/06 I mostly enjoyed this movie, but the wrap up hinged on a concept that really bothered me. The woman wants a baby, and she thinks her new boyfriend is too young and not ready to have kids, so she dumps him, even though she seems to really love him. Huh? Okay, maybe this is totally foreign to me because I don't want kids in the first place, but still, I think that if you really love someone you aren't going to dump them and kick them completely out of your life because you've decided that they aren't ready to have kids. But then I figure that maybe he's better off without her if she's just going to spend all of her time making these sort of decisions for him, you know the big life decisions, and not actually discuss it with him and take his opinions and feelings into account. I also don't believe that you get to define an exact hole in your life and try to find the perfect person to fill it. I think it's much smarter to see who comes along and how they fit into your life. Plus I'm poly, which means that I believe it's wrong to expect one person to be everything you're looking for. Ugh. So this turned into something that irritated me and made me think about why, so I guess that's a good thing. Mostly I wonder why it seems that people in general don't really know how to talk to each other and they seem to spend all of their time second guessing each others motivations instead. So crazy. Maybe it's because they don't take the time to know themselves and understand their own needs and desires first. It's a theory. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:25:28 PM

Last Man Standing (1996)
Watched 4/13/06 For an overly testosterone laden shoot-'em-up, this was pretty well done. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:07:29 PM

The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice

Finished April 12th, 2006 I enjoy Anne Rice's writing. I like the greater mythos she has going on in all of her books that I've read. Mostly the vampire books so far. I'd been meaning to start on this series for awhile, and I'm glad I finally did. It took me awhile because it's a huge book, and I read slow. The first hundred pages were slow, due to hearing the life stories of a couple characters in such a way that I didn't find very exciting, but it picked up after that and zoomed thru to the end. She certainly knows how to write page turners. The only part that makes me cringe is the way she writes sex scenes, they almost always come off as if they were written for a romance novel, which I don't care for. But all the enjoyable parts overshadow this in the end. Book Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 10:05:14 PM

Dark Angel, Season 1 (2000-2001)
Finished on 3/30/06 I've never before seen a TV show that had such a fantastic first season. This was simply a great show from pilot to cliff-hanger ending. There was a great story arc across the whole season, the acting was good and the visuals were well done. All in all a top notch show. Movie Reviews 2006 item Posted: 7/3/06; 9:39:12 PM

'GREEN' BURIAL OFFERS A PLOT WITH A VIEW
> 'GREEN' BURIAL OFFERS A PLOT WITH A VIEW It sits on the eastern fringe of New York's Finger Lakes region and is bounded on three sides by 8,000 acres of protected forests: a perfectly natural place to spend an eternity. ... http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/27/green.burials.ap/index.html Articles item Posted: 7/3/06; 9:26:14 AM