I-potter-ate

I opened up my search history in my music downloading program/file sharing program *ehhem* to re-search artists to get new hits/songs (yeah, I know, bad girl...support musicians, buy CDs and all that jazz...). Anyway. Apparently damm_im_good had been searching for audio books before me. You have to understand, I tease him relentlessly about being "i-potter-ate" (versus illiterate) meaning that he is a Harry Potter NUTJOB. When I'm gone on a business trip, he reads Harry Potter (he's probably read the series 10 times through, at least). He'll finish the 6 book sequence and then start right back up again. He'll do this with the Harry Potter movies as well. If he reads a different book, and I ask him how he liked it, he'll usually respond with something like, "Well, it wasn't as good as Harry Potter," or "It was almost as good as Harry Potter." I'm not saying that Harry Potter isn't great. I like Harry Potter. I'm not saying that it isn't worth reading over and over, it is.... But here's the result of looking into my search history:

Half Blood Prince
Halfblood Prince
Potter
Harry Potter
Books
Kushiel
Audio Book

And that's it. He's friggin addicted. Ipotterate.

Oh, I forgot to do a weekend book update last weekend, and I got lotsa books. . . I also got a few more tonight whilst shopping with llythefaerye. We're doing the Thrift Store thing tomorrow, so there may be more, and I'll update a huge list later this weekend.

By the way, just so I can get more people into trouble (like I don't do enough of that already) Half Price Books (www.halfpricebooks.com) is having a 20% off everything sale through Sunday. Except if you live in Indiana. If you live in Indiana, pay full price suckah!

Hmmm...

I'll really digging my new bordello/office space. (The red curtains remind everyone of a bordello, apparently.) I was hanging up my big Bob Dylan poster and I'm quickly realizing that blocking everyone out with bordello curtains, creating a cave-like environment and hanging up angst-y musician posters isn't really doing anything to dispel the impression of the diva-like, broody, reclusive writer. *shrug* Ah well. As Popeye would say, "I 'yam what I 'yam."

Derrick and I watched Crash last night. We had the movie, and I hadn't seen it, so I figured, "What the hell, lets watch the Oscar-winning picture for best film of the year."

The movie ended and I turned to Derrick.

"Was that REALLY the best thing that Hollywood could come up with this year? Really?"

To be fair, I hadn't seen any of the other nominated films. Not that the movie wasn't good. It was. It just wasn't....well, it wasn't on par with previous Oscar-winning films. 4 out of 5 stars, really...but it was just lacking something. It was too much like a forced snapshot. A picture taken with something completely different in the background, hiding out of focus or behind something else. I suppose that films are, in their own way, a very subjective medium where the filmmaker wants you to see life through the snapshot of his lens (excluding the background focus). However, it just felt heavy handed.

Edit: I think I've now pinpointed why I didn't "like" Crash as much as I should have... The main theme of the movie is: everyone is racist...isn't it horrible? (Guilt people, right now you should be feeling guilt for your terrible prejudicial, racist ways.) But then the movie shows (and makes a point of showing) that everyone is pretty much an asshole. So why not be a racist...or better yet, why not just hate everyone equally? It also shows that the cases of prejudicial treatment (the white woman huddling closer to her husband while two black men pass by them on the street) are completely justified, though conceptually "wrong" (the two men in question hijack the woman and her husband's car moments later). So the movie pretty much made me hate everyone...completely equally of course.