Posts from — July 2004

seventeen (work) days from today, amy will be unemployed. eighteen (actual) days from today, i will be 30. four weeks from today, i will be in portland. four weeks and a day from today, I will be looking at houses. four weeks and three days from today, i will be done looking at houses and hopefully will have found at least two or three that I would feel comfortable putting down a significant amount of money to live in for the next three to five years. five weeks and two days from today i will find out if i will still have a job in fourteen weeks. a little less than fourteen weeks from today i will no longer be a resident of the great state of california. fourteen weeks and one day from today, we will have a new president, though unfortunately i will not be able to change my registration in time for my vote to make a difference– though i will still be voting. countdown over.

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saw two, count ‘em two, hollywood blockbusters over the last three days. bourne supremacy was pretty kick-ass and propulsive. nearly entirely hand-held and driven by a throbbing soundtrack, matt damon earned some major bad-ass points as he ran and ran and ran and then drove and crashed many cars around europe.
i, robot was entertaining enough, better than expected in that totally mindless kind of way, but it really seemed like will smith was in a different movie altogether. everything he did was so incongruous to what was actually going on in the wannabe seriousness of the movie world that it constantly jolted me out of the picture. though the brother was PUMPED, man. even got the full-on smith in the shower show even. some nifty camerawork and a relatively decent held-together plot kept me going while i watched, though damned if i could tell you what the thing was about now that it’s been about ten hours since it ended. should have been subtitled “when ipods go bad.”