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Raise Your Paw
Mar. 8th, 2005 09:18 am
I have this problem when buying gifts for people. I can never get just one.
When I'm in a gift-giving mood, I always tend to go a bit nuts with it. "Ooh, this'll be great for so-and-so." and "Wow, this song would be a great thing to mix a CD around for this-and-that." So I'll stockpile this list of presents every few months and when the time is right, release them through the power of the US Postal Service.
The problem with this method of gift-giving is it's so slow. A lot of presents I've bought for people are responses to this one conversation had, like, forty million hours ago and they're very unlikely to remember. I can just see people now, going, "Why in the world is this guy giving me three packs of underwear and an uglifruit?"
So yeah, right now I have a righteous stack of boxes, envelopes and letters ready to go out, but since I spent all of my disposable income for a while on presents, I don't actually have the money to *mail* them. Especially since half of them are going outside the US.
And so Christmas will come late this year.
"House of Sand and Fog" was very good. Ben Kingsley is an excellent actor, and it was amazing how...sympathetic his character was. Here's this foreigner who's a bit of a hard-ass, refusing to give up a house that was taken wrongfully from the original owner...but somehow you *feel* for him all throughout the movie. It was at turns easy and difficult not to choose sides; the only character I had no compassion for is Ron Eldard's "Clarence McDouchecop" police officer (you can see good ol' Ron as the main character in "Blind Justice," by the way). He was such a...bully, and an uncaring flake, that you know, I just felt he got what he deserved at the end. Still, Ben said it best after he and his family were locked in the shower. "He's a weak man. He's scared, and scared men are dangerous." When you got right down to it, the cop had no idea what he was doing; when you sit down to think about it a little, he was so far...gone out of himself and the situation he had no idea of how anything worked. From where he was sitting, I guess, you could see how he thought what he was doing was the right thing. His actions were borne out of a desire to help someone he cared for, but he didn't see any of what those actions were doing to her *and* everyone else involved until it was way too late to stop.
Anyway, good movie, highly recommended. :) Now, work.
When I'm in a gift-giving mood, I always tend to go a bit nuts with it. "Ooh, this'll be great for so-and-so." and "Wow, this song would be a great thing to mix a CD around for this-and-that." So I'll stockpile this list of presents every few months and when the time is right, release them through the power of the US Postal Service.
The problem with this method of gift-giving is it's so slow. A lot of presents I've bought for people are responses to this one conversation had, like, forty million hours ago and they're very unlikely to remember. I can just see people now, going, "Why in the world is this guy giving me three packs of underwear and an uglifruit?"
So yeah, right now I have a righteous stack of boxes, envelopes and letters ready to go out, but since I spent all of my disposable income for a while on presents, I don't actually have the money to *mail* them. Especially since half of them are going outside the US.
And so Christmas will come late this year.
"House of Sand and Fog" was very good. Ben Kingsley is an excellent actor, and it was amazing how...sympathetic his character was. Here's this foreigner who's a bit of a hard-ass, refusing to give up a house that was taken wrongfully from the original owner...but somehow you *feel* for him all throughout the movie. It was at turns easy and difficult not to choose sides; the only character I had no compassion for is Ron Eldard's "Clarence McDouchecop" police officer (you can see good ol' Ron as the main character in "Blind Justice," by the way). He was such a...bully, and an uncaring flake, that you know, I just felt he got what he deserved at the end. Still, Ben said it best after he and his family were locked in the shower. "He's a weak man. He's scared, and scared men are dangerous." When you got right down to it, the cop had no idea what he was doing; when you sit down to think about it a little, he was so far...gone out of himself and the situation he had no idea of how anything worked. From where he was sitting, I guess, you could see how he thought what he was doing was the right thing. His actions were borne out of a desire to help someone he cared for, but he didn't see any of what those actions were doing to her *and* everyone else involved until it was way too late to stop.
Anyway, good movie, highly recommended. :) Now, work.
