We watched this movie last night. It was freaking hilarious. I’m sure it helped that it was the uncut version of the film. I read that they cut 15 minutes of the film in order to avoid an NC17 rating. That’s a lot of profanity. I guess it sometimes pays to wait until stuff comes out on video.
new year’s weekend
The past weekend was pretty filling, but fun (besides the fact that I have been sick with a cold all weekend). Friday night, our friend John and his kids came over for a visit. We all had a blast. Drinks, food, and video games abounded. Even though his kids are older than Jake, they always do a great job playing with him.
Saturday night (New Year’s Eve), we weren’t planning on doing anything, but another friend of Brian’s, Slim, invited us to his house for a New Year’s Eve party. We generally like to stay home, but this was a pretty low key event and Jake was welcome, so we decided to go. Slim really enjoys cooking (on the grill), so they had quite a variety of tasty grilled snacks to eat. Jake had fun playing with the two girls that were there.
Sunday (New Year’s Day) was celebrated in our usual fashion–I cooked up some pork, kielbasa, sauerkraut and dumplings and we washed that down with some sparkling wine (my current favorite is from Domaine-Ste-Michelle. we tried their blanc de blancs this time around).
Today was spent doing stuff around the house and recovering from the weekend. We also put our Christmas decorations away. I can’t believe we have to go back to work/school tomorrow.
house of 1000 corpses
Brian and I were divided on this one. He liked it. I didn’t. I mean, it was ok, but I’m not a horror movie fan, so there you have it. This one was definitely a horror movie. Its sequel, The Devil’s Rejects, was more of a thriller (almost). It was at least a little rooted in reality whereas this movie had some weird shit going on at the end. The reason that I generally don’t like horror movies is that they just don’t scare me. I find reality much scarier than any of these films, which is why I like thrillers–they are more reality-based. And as far as the gore in horror movies goes, I’m not into that, either. It’s not like it grosses me out–I just don’t find it interesting. Take away the gore and the weird monsters and you aren’t left with much.
doodleman pinscher
It took a poodle to do it, but they finally found a way to sully the fine reputation of the doberman. I introduce to you, the Doodleman Pinscher. Remember the days when these types of dogs used to be called “mutts” and were given away rather than purposefully bred and sold for $500 a piece?
I guess that makes Lizzy a LaBeagle if you want to get fancy with it.
the taking
This is another recent one from Dean Koontz. I don’t know if his writing has gotten better in the past few years or if I just needed a break from him, but I really enjoyed the last two books I read of his. This book was seemingly about an alien invasion of the earth. I’m not so much into aliens, but this story had an apocalyptic tinge to it and I really liked that. The story had me on edge until the very end. He borrowed a trick from James Patterson for this novel–short chapters. As you’re reading, you keep thinking, “I have time for one more chapter.” 50 pages later you finally put down the book and go to bed. It only took me a few days to read, and that was over the busy holidays, so that’s saying something.
I was a little disappointed in the ending, though. I thought more could have been written about the transition that occurred at the end. The book clocked in around 400 pages, so he probably didn’t want to go much longer than that (a weak excuse if you ask me). Anyway, this was a great read and I definitely recommend it.