17 October
On Saturday, Georgina told me about the death of Urbanfetch.com, and that they were selling everything off for $10, DVDs, cds, everything was hugely reduced.
I tried to connect to the site all weekend, but to no avail--it kept timing out or taking five minutes to load or longer, so I just decided to wait until I got to the office on Monday.
Well, it wasn't much better with the T1! It took me half the day to actually connect and complete the process, what with my shopping cart emptying out six times and all. One time I got all the way to the end and it emptied out and so I started filling it again only to find that half of my stuff had sold out. I mean, what loony would want a DVD of The Betsy, it's one of the worst movies ever made! I want it 'cause my man Tommy Lee is in it, there is no other reason. Finally, the penny dropped and I checked to find out that my order had gone through when I had thought that it hadn't.
Of course by waiting until Monday, most things were gone, but I managed to get some stuff that I really wanted and save $100 according to Amazon prices. I got the DVDs Twin Falls, Idaho, Oliver, The Betsy, House of Cards, The Hard Way, and the cds The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000, 2000 And One Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks, The Very Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Broadway Collection, Woody Allen Standup Comic, and This Is Cult Fiction.
Not bad for coming to a blowout sale so late! I'm glad I did, too, because I'm too broke to be spending more than this, and you can justify by how much you are saving by only so long.
After the tussle with Urbanfetch (I really wished that I could call customer service about the huge connectivity problems, but I was pretty certain that they would laugh themselves silly, Tracing and I went to the SAG movie.
It was a film called Two Family House, and all I knew about it was from a little ad I had seen in the paper of two people kissing and with lines from good reviews, and from the title I guessed that it was probably a New York story, but that was all.
This is my favourite way of seeing a movie, without a clue as to what the hell it is about, just letting the movie tell me its story, not the reviews. And it was wonderful. It really is just the most charming, sweet movie about this goodhearted Italian New Yorker, this dreamer who always fails but keeps dreaming, his wife who is really over him being so ridiculous, and a pregnant Irish girl that he meets and who changes his life as he changes hers.
It's about two people finding themselves through finding each other.
It's very funny and moving and the performances are uniformly excellent, broad without being too much. Michael Rispoli, the lead, usually plays these cartoony characters, these goombahs, like in my favourite While You Were Sleeping, but here he was so subtle, it was a joy to see.
Also excellent was Kathrine Narducci as the shrewish wife, who could have just been a ballbusting bitch, but who had so much going on behind her eyes that you really could understand her reasons for what she said and did.
I recommend this film so highly, if you can stand seeing something that just might be heartwarming. But better go quick, as this is the kind of little film that doesn't stay around that long.
And we're still talking about getting well-know phrases wrong, attending our high school reunions, being from a small town, family souvenirs, car-crash journals, our friend's mates, being a morning person or a night person, my old designs, what breaks our hearts, doing what we didn't think we could do, working with children or animals, Drugstore.com coupons from Kim, waiting until the last second to do something important, unlikely fears, strange things overheard, travelling with a band, not being noticed, what surprises us about ourselves, and icky stories.
Check out that horoscope below, Company That Must Not Be Named, brace yourself!
Today's horoscope:
Today you're every employer's dream: careful, disciplined, thorough, with attention to detail and good business skills.
One year ago today:
It's not my skill, it's her face, I just catch the moments as best as I can.
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