That's it! I can't hide anymore. You want to know what I've been up to other than raising a child? Fine. I'll tell you. Watching movies. Lots and lots of movies. Awful, terrible movies. Movies like Dan in Real Life, 27 Dresses, Love in the Time of Cholera, *The Painted Veil, and Elizabethtown. (That last one's tough to admit).I didn't mean for this to happen. It was my birthday. I was at the library and saw *Miss Potter sitting on the shelf. I'm not sure what got over me, but I grabbed it. And I decided that during naptime I wasn't going to clean or cook or fold laundry. Nothing. I was going to watch a movie. A silly, not-that-great sort of movie.
And I did.
Then the next week I watched *Becoming Jane. A few days later, *The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. *The Other Boleyn Girl. *Pride and Prejudice.
Do you see what I'm talking about here? I'm hooked. It's so bad that I even asked Wes to pick me up a movie at the library last week, to which he replied, "There's no way I'll be able to pick out a movie for you."
Me (shaking like a junkie): "Just look for a movie that you would never watch--that you couldn't be paid to watch--and that ought to do."
He brought home The Jane Austen Book Club. Well done, old man.
*Aside from The Assassination of Jesse James (which is actually a wonderful film), the starred titles are ones that I can recommend in a "don't say I didn't warn you" sort of way.
3 comments:
ha! i've been this close to dropping elizabethtown in my blockbuster queue about a dozen times. (kirsten dunst has been a guilty pleasure ever since bring it on.)
love the assassination. (and those little pumpkin guys and halloween story in your previous post. so funny.)
Hilarious! I have been watching musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein while I work out. I forgot how much I LOVE Sound of Music and how dark and kind of weird Oklahoma is. Hope to see you if you come to Michigan this upcoming week!!!!
i can totally relate~
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