Things I've Been Up To

[c9]

Here I go with the bullets. I hope they don't go out of style -- I won't know what to do!

• Saw a movie called "Maria Full of Grace," which was very enjoyable.  Moving and (surprisingly for a crusty moviegoer like me) unpredictable.
• Saw the Cannes 2003 Best Commercials. Lots of fun, as always, especially when comparing what different countries find funny. Violence seems to be pretty universal.
• We've been getting together with friends to watch Survivor each Thursday. "Friends?" you're probably thinking. Yes, though half of them we knew in Halifax, so it's a bit odd. No gays. :-)
• I've been doing the final cleanup and layout of Wayves each month. Kinda less fun than I'd imagined, since I don't get the comraderie of the month layout sessions in Halifax. I'm finishing November tonight. Anybody have a copy of InDesign I can (ahem) borrow?
  
• Work has me going flat out, but not traveling. Kinda nice. But I'm so busy (having two bosses with specific percentages of my time to use is not, in fact, less work than having one boss who thinks I have 26 hours per day.
• For Thanksgiving the gang (well, portions thereof:_kissyfur_, leapfish, simplisticton, and purplemartini were all there.) hit my cottage in PEI. Great time with great friends, but unfortunately we live too far from PEI for it to be a reasonable weekend destination anymore. Sad.
• There will be pictures posted from PEI soon. I just need to catch my breath. I have breathing pencilled in for April 2005. Are you free?

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

I went to the commercial festival one year in Winnipeg with Phil. I found it strangely disturbing. At first the commercials were amusing, but watching one after the other started to make me uneasy. It really seemed to be seeing the other people laughing at the "proper" times and reacting to the ads as expected that really got to me. Maybe it was just the rampant display of consumerism, or recognizing the manipulations of the images worked. Everyone was just consuming, not questioning what was in front of them, and that really got to me. Gives me shivers still. Can't explain it beyond that.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

You could say that same thing about most movies.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

very true, I guess it was the repetitive nature of the commercials that got to me, like all of the pandering and manipulations found in bad cinema brought down to its essence. Essence of crap.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Isn't that Liz Taylor's new scent?

[bartok.livejournal.com]

hers or Britney Spears'