Weekend of abject laziness

I had a pretty good weekend:

1. I finally saw 'Moon', which I thought was great. You can take a talented cast, modern technology and a not-huge budget and make a really cool flick with a classic sci-fi vibe. Opposing view came from Mrs. Bart, who said that even though it was a 97 minute movie, she wanted 3 hours of her life back. Try not to be shocked that she didn't love it. Maybe I'll make her sit through 'G.I. Joe' next weekend just to teach her a lesson.

Saw trailers for 2 music-related documentaries - one about a soul concert just before the Rumble in the Jungle, and the other about Robert Page, The Edge, and Jack White getting together to jam and talk about guitars. We were trying to figure out why those trailers came before this movie, but then realized it's because 'Moon' was an arthouse flick. We were getting some culture in.

Trailer I did not appreciate: '2012'. Look, end-of-world movies can be exciting, but here's the problem: there's a lot of stupid people out there. Plenty of people will see this and think that planets are going to align and this will somehow cause the earth to melt, or something. There are people still freaking out over 'Armageddon' (or more specifically, over the idea of a huge asteroid hitting earth), and that was 11 years ago. I'm not saying we need a disclaimer on the movie, but maybe the marketing tactic of saying "this is information from the ancient Mayans, and they sure knew their shit, except the part about smallpox" isn't the best. Market it as fiction.

On the other hand, if people are going to be freaking out about the end of the world in a few years, I need to save up so I can buy their stuff for cheap. Maybe start fabricating amulets or magic wands. There's always some profit potential when people are staring a phony armageddon in the face. I mean, hell, the Y2K bug was probably the closest we're ever going to come to a catastrophe of that magnitude, and we did just fine.

2. I caught up on 'Weeds' - last 2 episodes of Season 4, and the first 8 episodes of Season 5. Whatever issues I had with storyline and quality in Season 4, it's behind us now. The show is now rocking.

Something so tremendously awesome happened while watching 'Weeds' that I can't describe it now. I need to do a little video editing before I can share with you. Rest assured, it is coming soon.

What didn't I do this weekend? A little something called "mowing the yard", and it's too bad, because the weather was nice, and it looks like it's going to be stupidly hot this week.

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