Posted By Don on August 18, 2010
We watched this the other night. Sophomoric, silly, stupid, and way more 4 letter words than any movie needs to have. That said I enjoyed a few parts of it. I’ve been a John Cusack fan since Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer.
They actually got a line from BOD that cracked me up. If you’ve ever seen that one you’ll remember the line “I want my 2 dollars!”.
If you don’t care for silly movies you should probably steer clear of this.
Posted By Don on August 8, 2010
If you ever look at our Netflix queue you’ll notice our last 2 movies were Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief(say that 3 times fast) and Precious.
I doubt you could find 2 more different movies but I liked them both about equally.
Percy is a lighthearted tale of a young man who learns he is a demigod. A demigod is of course a child of a god and a mortal in Greek mythology. The story follows Percy as he learns of his “secret” and has to battle and work with other demigods to clear his name in the theft of Zeus’s lightning bolt. It had some great special effects and overall was an entertaining flick. Don’t expect to see anything deep but if you liked Lord of the Rings you’ll probably like this.
Precious on the other hand is a very, very dark movie about a subject that hasn’t been covered much. It’s about a 16 year old girl who’s father has raped her many times and impregnated her twice. The story follows the girl named Precious as she learns to fight back a little from her controlling mother and terrible past. Precious is portrayed by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. Her mother is played by comedian Mo’Nique who I was not familiar with. Mo’Nique won the Oscar for Supporting Actress and she definitely deserved it. The movie was well acted and gives you a look at a side of life nobody would want to experience. I highly recommend it if you enjoy deep movies with a message.
Posted By Don on July 22, 2010
Betty and I have been wanting to go back to Las Vegas for a short vacation. The last time we were there was our 5th wedding anniversary so it’s been almost 12 years. I get emails from a thing called Travelzoo which has good prices on various vacation type stuff. It had a deal for a room at the Signature by MGM for about half price. We were going to stay there but then we happened to look at a the Luxor and one of the rooms has a Spa built in. Betty really liked that idea and I’ve always wanted to stay at the Luxor so that’s where we will be going. We plan to drive over on August 29th and then back to LA on the 31st.
The day after we made reservations there Jocelyn contacted me about them coming out to Phoenix. She said they wanted to do it between Sep 1st and 8th and did I want to come over then? Heck yes we did!
We started thinking about where we would stay and what we would do and thought we could ask Heather to put us up for a few nights and maybe stay in a hotel for a few nights. I am a firm believer in the old saying that house guests are like fish. Both start smelling after a few days. I dislike asking someone to put us up for very long.
Then the night before last I was talking to Heather about the trip when it hit me that we could maybe see the Grand Canyon on our way from Vegas to Phoenix. I was looking at options and we could stay in the park, stay in Williams, or stay in Flagstaff. I’m leaning towards a night in the park but we’ll see.
Last night we looked at prices to see the Blue Man Group while in Vegas. It’s almost $100 a ticket. Not sure if we’ll do that but since Betty really wants to see them and we’ve never done a show in Vegas we probably will.
This will be the first time that just the 2 of us have gone on a trip this long. We are looking forward to it. And of course right in the middle of it is our 17th anniversary and Joce and Erics something something anniversary.
Posted By Don on June 20, 2010
He’s been gone for several years but I still think of what a great father and role model he was. Happy Father’s Day where ever you are Dad!
Posted By Don on June 5, 2010
Last Monday Betty and I drove up to Fort Tejon which is of course in the Tejon pass. We spent about an hour walking around looking at the building, grounds, and stuff. There isn’t really a lot to see but I somehow managed to take over 100 pictures. You can find them in my Gallery.
Posted By Don on May 21, 2010
Abby Sunderland left Cape Town today to attempt to finish her youngest solo circumnavigation of the globe.
God speed Abby.
Posted By Don on May 4, 2010
I remember one of the main points the left was making about Obama during the campaign was how he would make the world like us again. We had become hated only because George Bush was such a cowboy and made all those extremists want to kill us.
Well I for one am glad that Obama has made such a huge difference in how we are viewed. If not for him there might be terrorists trying to set off car bombs in Times Square.
Oh wait. Never mind…
