Archive for June, 2007

2007/06/27

Closer

Plot:
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
From the IMDB Profile

Notable:
Natalie Portman looks amazing all the time, even with red or pink hair. She’s a very lucky gal.

Quote:
Alice: I don’t eat fish.
Dan: Why not?
Alice: Fish piss in the sea.
Dan: So do children.
Alice: Don’t eat children either.

Thoughts:
I hated this movie. I grew up in a very prudish environment and that’s hard to suppress, so the sexual tone of this made me uncomfortable. But the relationships in this film were awkward and and didn’t seem to be based on any feelings other than lust. The characters came across as awful people. The only good thing about this was the song ‘The Blower’s Daughter’ by Damien Rice featured throughout.

Rating: R for sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language

2007/06/27

At the Gym

There are frequently vendors for various products hanging out at my gym, trying to sell all of the members on their miracle item that promises life-changing benefits.

  1. Workout clothes that will conceal those trouble areas or flaunt those amazing parts earned by hours upon hours of hard workouts.
  2. Vitamins, powders or shakes that will improve our stamina, concentration, muscle building, fat burning, etc.
  3. Laser hair removal so we don’t have to share our arm pit hair (or leg hair or back hair or whatever hair) with everyone while we’re sweating. Or when we’re working in our skimpy uniforms as strippers or cocktail waitresses because that’s EXACTLY what all of us women living here in The Vegas do for income, ya know?
  4. Tanning passes so we can negate all the positive effects we’ve gained in terms of fitness by buying a heaping dose of skin cancer.

But yesterday, when I was leaving the gym a vendor was setting up a table to sell a product I’ve never seen there before. His life-altering item: wine.

Somehow that seemed completely perplexing, yet completely logical to me.

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