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

Best of commercials

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

I went to one of those best-of commercials shows at the Bytowne theatre a couple of years ago. I enjoyed most of it, but it was kind of annoying - it could have used much better 'editing'.

The problem was that 95% of the ads were laugh-your-ass-off hilarious, but the other 5% were slit-your-wrists depressing, and they were all mixed up together. You'd get so used to laughing that it'd only be once an ad was over that you'd realize "that person I laughed at had cancer - they're probably dead by now", and you'd be so thrown off that soon you'd have no idea what to feel. A giant anvil would drop on someone and you'd end up thinking "that poor man". (Well maybe not that - giant anvils are always funny. If a giant anvil fell on Oscar at the end of "Schindler's List", I'd be rewinding it to watch it over and over.)

Re: Best of commercials

[c9.livejournal.com]

It's true, you would. I still can't watch "A Fish Called Wanda" without thinking of your laughing fits.

Re: Best of commercials

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I remember a fit during "Fargo". But I don't remember what scene it was.