hitchhiker's guide to the world's greatest godfather always rings twice

Well, I haven't been to the movie theater in quite a while. This is partly because I got too poor even for $5 Tuesdays and partly because I saw FMF twice and maybe that was too much. Also, could partly be because there's nothing up I really want to see. I can't wait to see Precious. I am so ready for Mariah Carey to play a social worker. But I miss the summer/fall version of myself that would go see anything on $5 tuesday that started as close to 4:30pm as possible b/c that's when my workday ended and I worked just down the street. I did go to the real theater last weekend to see the Portland Ballet perform the Nutcracker. It was sweet but really sloppy and hard to believe it's a company that dances together regularly. But yeah, it was great cos it was Xmas-y and I got dressed up in a clingy vintage red sweater dress that made my body look like one of those sexy 1950s bosomy bodies with the stomach pooch and the round butt.

As for actual things worth talking about, I've been into the British Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show, which I mentioned to you on text, right? What it has in it's corner as far as I'm concerned is that it's low-fi sci-fi and good British humor: snark and nonsense and terrible special effects. Did you ever read the books? I never did. I'm glad too cos I prefer having discovered this great format. I did see a few minutes of the Zooey Deschanel one that came out a few years ago and that was alright but maybe too slick. What have I got against slick? Maybe I'm cranky cos I want baked eggs without talking to anyone and the path to the kitchen is littered with bodies.

I also watched The Godfather last night with someone who has never seen it. Of course, it's one of my favorites and just the theme song brings up a lot of excitement for me. But the first timer was not a fan, judging it too confusing and that was disappointing but I can sort of see that point, but mostly I just think that sometimes with older movies you need to pay more attention and it's easy to forget that. I love it though. I think it's aged really well and is a beautiful looking movie. Diane Keaton looks like a kid. Marlon Brando might be the most masculine dude ever. And all the other stuff, like take the gun, leave the cannoli, it drives me kooky, it's great.

At the videostore the other day, I caught about 20 minutes of World's Greatest Dad with Robin Williams. It's supposed to be like the serious indie that rejuvenates or legitimizes his career or whatever. He plays a mousey English teacher whose son accidentally dies from autoerotic asphyxiation but he fusses with the scene to make it look like a suicide after the son is dead. And he goes through a lot of grief and is dating another really flakey teacher, is all I got. I can't wait to see the rest. It seems really sad but also the son was such a jerk to this guy and he seems so nice, I guess the whole thing is full of conflict and giving conflicting emotions.

And then tonight I saw about 8 minutes of The Postman Always Rings Twice before I started to feel sick for some reason and had to go to bed. I know I like it and I just read the book last weekend, and I love those looks people give each other in those noirs. So smoldery.

Now I'm up late and wanting baked eggs and waiting for people to settle in for the night and hoping that tomorrow is a nice day so that they won't call me in to work in the videostore due to shit weather. I love working at the videostore more than I love most things about living in Portland, and I know if I do go in, I'll be really psyched to be there, but it's hard to imagine being psyched about anything when yr anticipating being exhausted and sick.