It’s always great fun to spend some time doing my own work with my fiancée in her classroom/office. I feel as productive as ever, plus there’s someone nice to talk with. I’m such a bore when I work by myself.
I watched This Is Where I Leave You yesterday in preparation for recording a podcast about it tonight. The movie was certainly fine and told its story. The only thing holding it up was the strength of the acting. 🎥🍿
I just finished watching the first season of Homecoming and was enthralled the whole way through. It had a great mystery throughout and Julia Roberts was fabulous. 📺
Since starting to record a podcast with my friend, my mind is filled with ideas for potential other podcast shows I can do. I feel like I live my life on a slippery slope.
I had a great time watching Bella with a good friend of mine. That was a fine movie with a pacing and style you don’t usually see in movies these days. Definitely worth a watch. 🎥
Considering how wonderful Unbreakable and Split were, it was disappointing to see how underwhelming Glass was. There was such potential for a great superhero story in that film. It really did not live up to that promise. 🎥🍿
I spent nearly all day shopping for a new couch with the fiancée today. Furniture shopping is weirdly time-consuming, but with her it was a blast. I can’t wait to break in the new couch when it’s delivered.
It took way too long for me to get to it, but my Dandy Cat Design website finally has a working automatic dark mode. Feels pretty nice to tick that one off my list. Huzzah! 🎉
Everyone’s talking about chilly mornings and I’m over here wondering why the heck it’s going to be in the 70s in mid-February. At least the lows are still low here.
The holy grail of my work life (like so many others) is to get paid for doing the work that I’d like to do. Managing freelance work for other people gives me more anxiety than I think is healthy.
If anybody has ever found a way to make drawing up and working with freelance contracts make all the sense and be enjoyable, then I am all ears.
Got out of a productive, yet kind of nerve-wracking, meeting a little while ago. Just had a filling lunch. Topped that off with a chocolate chip cookie. If I’m not careful, I’m going to end up taking a very long nap. 😴
I thought Birds of Prey was a fun one to watch. Better than people are giving it credit for. Rosie Perez was fantastic. I really want to see a complete movie with Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Huntress character now. 🎥🍿
The Lighthouse was just… Wow. That film was something else. Beautifully filmed, chock-full of symbolism, and always unsettling. It’s rare that you get to witness a descent into madness depicted so well in film. 🎥🍿
I would pay Apple a subscription fee forever if I could hide the app reviews from people complaining about how they don’t want to pay subscription fees. “$10 a year?!?! Only millionaires can afford this sort of scam!!!1!111!!”
I can’t think of another person who deserved the cinematography Oscar more than Roger Deakins. I’m so happy he’s finally receiving the Academy Award-winning recognition he should have been getting for a long time. 🎥🍿
Here’s hoping for another Roger Deakins win at the Oscars later this evening. Admittedly, I haven’t seen all the other cinematography nominations, but come on. 1917 was a gorgeous technical marvel. 🎥🍿
Eating French fries at 10:00 at night was not my best idea.
It’s been two years and one day since my dad passed away and it’s still the most surreal thing to me. I doesn’t feel as crushingly sad as I used to, but I still catch myself expecting to see him in all sorts of places. It feels so weird when he’s not there.
I watched Don’t Breathe earlier this week. That one was a fun and efficient thriller. The camera and sound design work was really top notch. They helped turn it into a really tense movie that’s worth giving a shot. 🎥🍿