Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
movies

talladega nights: the ballad of ricky bobby

We haven’t been watching a lot of movies during the week lately because we’ve been working our way through the Arrested Development DVDs (highly recommended. we caught most of the episodes on TV, but missed some because they were always changing the timeslot for the show. watching them all in a row is a real treat). We’re taking a couple week break from that before we watch the final season, so it was nice to watch a movie for a change last night.

Talladega Nights was a funny movie. It was not a hilarious movie. I did not cry from laughing even once while watching it (which is how I measure my comedies). We both enjoyed it, but that’s as far as it went. I don’t think I need to summarize the plot–if you haven’t heard about this movie by now, it’s probably because you don’t want to.

I did like it a lot more than the last Will Ferrell movie I saw, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Of course, I didn’t like that movie so this one was bound to be better.

Time to watch another movie. I have a Blockbuster quota to fill before spring.

books

beach road

This was written by James Patterson and Peter De Jonge. I’m not sure why Patterson has been writing a bunch of books with co-authors, but I think this is the first one of those that I’ve read. The book was ok–I read it in a timely enough fashion. I didn’t like the ending, though. It was one of those endings you could never guess (because the author doesn’t give any hints–he just springs it on you). I don’t like that. While it was not one of Patterson’s best novels, it did keep me entertained for a few days, anyway.

movies

eraserhead

We watched this one last night. It was David Lynch’s directorial debut. The movie was quite odd and there’s probably no one I can recommend it to, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. On the other hand, it isn’t going to go down in history as one of my favorite movies (nor one of my favorite David Lynch movies either).

It was a story of a man living in an industrial wasteland whose girlfriend becomes pregnant and gives birth to some sort of weird creature. That’s about all I can tell you–not because I don’t want to give anything away, but as is typical of David Lynch–I didn’t “get” the rest of the story.

holidays

christmas preps

Jake stayed at my parent’s last night. Since this was probably our last Jake-free opportunity before Christmas, we spent the evening wrapping gifts. Today, we got all of the decorations out of the attic and put up the tree and decorated the house after Jake got home. The house looks pretty good, but we definitely have some straightening up to do–there are boxes everywhere.

And, I finally finished making my Christmas cards last week. I started sending them out a few days ago. I’m too lazy to go to the post office, so I send out a bunch per day over the course of a week. They’ll all be mailed in the next few days.

Still left: baking.