Crying, Water Lady and ACL
Jul. 23rd, 2006 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_trektone_wWas flipping channels this morning as I played with a laptop that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rabbijeffty ubuntu'd for me on Friday (thanks Jeff! -- got the upgrades done!). Watched Tiger Woods win the British Open (golf -- not my usual viewing choice) and as he celebrated and sobbed, I found myself crying a bit, too. Earlier this year his father passed away and this was his first major championship since that happened.
Decided on short notice to see a movie and walked the several blocks to catch "Lady in the Water." There was an emotional scene where I started crying again -- dang! I'm still thinking about the movie, but I mostly liked it. Maybe the ridiculous plot aspects will bug me more in a day or two, but at the moment it's my favorite movie of the summer, not including the one I was in. Had a number of actors I really like, including Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, and Bob Balaban. Maybe a bit too much of Mr. Night himself, though.
When I got home it was very warm (I've had the heating elements for my snakes off the last several days and they're okay), so instead of cleaning my condo I chose to chance it and try to get a ticket for the first performance of the going-back-to-Broadway version of "A Chorus Line."
Got tickets for me andsingular_girl when tix first went on sale, so I knew I'd see it for sure at least once during the run. Figured if a ticket was not to be had I could always go into work (not) or go to another movie. Lucky me -- someone was selling an extra at the face-value price. Today's was the very first of the preview shows.
I'll write more about it later, but I enjoyed this version, too. And cried when they sang, "What I Did For Love."
rabbijeffty ubuntu'd for me on Friday (thanks Jeff! -- got the upgrades done!). Watched Tiger Woods win the British Open (golf -- not my usual viewing choice) and as he celebrated and sobbed, I found myself crying a bit, too. Earlier this year his father passed away and this was his first major championship since that happened. Decided on short notice to see a movie and walked the several blocks to catch "Lady in the Water." There was an emotional scene where I started crying again -- dang! I'm still thinking about the movie, but I mostly liked it. Maybe the ridiculous plot aspects will bug me more in a day or two, but at the moment it's my favorite movie of the summer, not including the one I was in. Had a number of actors I really like, including Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, and Bob Balaban. Maybe a bit too much of Mr. Night himself, though.
When I got home it was very warm (I've had the heating elements for my snakes off the last several days and they're okay), so instead of cleaning my condo I chose to chance it and try to get a ticket for the first performance of the going-back-to-Broadway version of "A Chorus Line."
Got tickets for me and
singular_girl when tix first went on sale, so I knew I'd see it for sure at least once during the run. Figured if a ticket was not to be had I could always go into work (not) or go to another movie. Lucky me -- someone was selling an extra at the face-value price. Today's was the very first of the preview shows. I'll write more about it later, but I enjoyed this version, too. And cried when they sang, "What I Did For Love."
