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We now have DSL at our new place; the Qwest guy came just after 9 today. Yay! ... though we still have to wait for the router to show up (should also be today.) But apparently the router we got also has wireless! Neat! Acquiring a laptop is moving up the list for next year. Boy, getting full-sized paychecks again will be nice.

Today I'm going to a high school arts career fair in Braham, MN for Springboard. I've never been to Braham. I'm psychologically preparing myself to be innundated with thoughts of "My god, did *I* look that young when I was 17?"

Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. I liked it a whole lot.

Yes. Liked it very much. I really want to see it again, in fact. Jim Carrey got to act and not just be a goofball, which was really refreshing. (People have mentioned that he got to act and not be a goofball in The Majestic and The Truman Show as well, but I haven't seen either of those.) I loved how they treated timelines and I loved the realism of the characters. The arguments made me laugh out loud in sympathy, which I don't think I've ever done. They weren't *funny*, they were just so real! I felt like I could completely understand why these people loved each other and got upset with each other. The pain of their breakup was so... honest. I was also struck by how amazingly easily the premise could have made a really stupid movie, and it wasn't. It was good and it was touching and it was real, even though the main plot point was complete fantasy. And Clementine kinda made me want to dye my hair some more. R was depressed by it, but I didn't get that. I thought it was hopeful. And the fact that different people can read it so differently makes me like it even more, I think.


That's all for now... Maybe the next time I update will be from *home*. ooooooh.

Comments

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

I'll put that one on my list of movies to see!

[bohemianrapsody.livejournal.com]

I love that film. The realness of the charactors struck me also (pulled my my LJ review:)
Watched "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" for the second time today. (Best viewed a second time, similar to Fight Club- different time warps) I have so much praise for this film...the realness between the characters, (who *hasn't* started a wonderful romantic relationship and ended up bitching about hair in the soap or something similar a year later??) the scenario, the moral questions...what a great flick. I adored Kate Winset in this movie.

[lucyruthe.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm pretty sure that flick has solidified its standing in as one of my absolute favorite films.

Surreal and existential and dysfunctional and fascinating. And it manages to hold together all the way through!

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

I really liked that movie, too. I think I must make your brother watch it, though - he hasn't seen it yet, so I can't talk to him about it. (And he's deprived!)

[hexagonalcarbon.livejournal.com]

The realism of the fights and the pain was extremely disturbing. It was like watching a documentary about people falling down and hurting themselves - unpleasant.