I really loved Lady in the Water. It's a bit of a departure for my darling M. Night, it isn't a "twist" movie but rather just a story, told stylistically and with a lot of self-awareness. I suspect those people who think that Sixth Sense is his only good film won't enjoy it so much, but I love him and I love his work and this is just my kind of story. Fairy tale, ordinary people, something strange...plus Bryce Dallas Howard is gorgeous.
Anyway, this entry is onstensibly about the book I am loving right now which is called Julie and Julia and started off here as a blog. Basically it's one thirty-ish woman deciding to work her way through Julia Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in a year. It's full of funny anecdotes about trying to get marrow out of a cow thigh bone, making creme brulee and having borderline psychotic episodes about minor things.
It's very easy to read and that makes it quick. Plus it's all about food and that's one of my favourite things so it's all good.
We had Seraph and V over for dinner on Saturday and played all but one of my new card games. I really like Chez Geek and Totally Renamed Spy Game but I think I'll have to play the Hollywood game a few more times to really get the hang of it. Fairy Tale's instructions baffled me and I wasn't feeling any braver after a few glasses of bubbly and losing at the other games so we all played Xmen on the Xbox for a while. Good fun.
The other neat thing I did on Saturday was get collected from brunch by Giffy and Muggle and taken to various shops. I am now itching to get back to the badge shop at Wakefield market. (I started my Christmas shopping already. If you know that I know that you like badges? Yeah. You might be getting something!) I am insanely proud of my new Danger Mouse badge.
Talking all afternoon with Conan was very fun as well, although the whole weekend ended up being a bit of a wash for my studying. Lee and I helped my sister unpack at her new house yesterday and I was wiped after (well, before) that.
Three episodes of season three two House and my weekend was over.
PoF: stripes, as ever
CO: calves feet in aspic
PS. Pearce reviews An Inconvenient Truth. Here. My review is about halfway down this entry.
Posted by jenni at September 18, 2006 02:36 PM