i haven't had more than two consecutive days off for a while now and this week has been good to me in that department.
time to doze off, time to catch up, time to watch films. it feels good.
too bad they can't pay us to do that all the time.
so this afternoon i reluctantly went out to run some errands (a bag for the roommate's xmas gift, exchange a faulty cd, go check out the indie store for the first time in a decade, etc).
first stop -- the video store. i'm not even in the parking when i hear a moving truck honk at me. what the fuck? i'm not blocking his way, and i'm going in anyway. then i see the excited passenger -- it's my ex!!! she moved to quebec city last summer. we've kept in touch by email since then. the driver is her current boyfriend. she told me she'd drop by to get her stuff from her old apartment here in the city yesterday. i guess this was it.
anyway. i park my car as she's trying to make her way to me.
we hug for a bit :) and then a bit more. and then some more. it felt nice. we hadn't seen each other literally in months.
apparently her boyfriend wasn't too happy that she was getting out of the truck to come meet me :) too bad.
it was a nice reunion.
we're not into the same stuff but we always have this bond, this damn chemistry. and it was still there.
even though i've moved on i was happy to see that we still had that bond.
we talked, and mostly stared at each other, for about 5 minutes, not saying much except that she's coming back next week for new year's. dunno if we're gonna do anything (i'm working all week) but it was nice to see her again (and she was very happy to see me :) she had tears :)
so then.
i managed to make it to the shady used record and exchange my copy of the Wu-Tang's Iron Flag, which was scratched and the booklet was watered down and torn. they still had the extra copy and the guy didn't say anything as he was looking (and looking) for the cd.
all happy i made my way to the other, more respectable used record store and found Curve's Gift. ha! i'd been on the fence about this album for a good two years when i finally decided last fall to go ahead and buy the damn thing. i kept seeing it at the record store, full price, but i'd been convinced. once i got there, though, it was gone! argh. so yeah, i finally found it at the used record store today for more than half the price i would've paid at the store :) i'm a happy man.
i finally found myself a copy of Millennium Actress to rent this afternoon.
oh!
and i found a trilogy of films by Jean-Marc Barr (the guy in The Big Blue who wasn't Jean Reno) and Pascal Arnold at the video store. at first i started reading the back of this one dvd case, then i got to the part about it being the third film in a trilogy; i then looked up and saw that they had all three films on dvd :)
Lovers
Too Much Flesh
Being Light
all with Elodie Bouchez.
i wanted to read about them before actually committing myself to renting them.
the first one's a Dogma film (Barr was in Dancer in the Dark and seems to have been working steadily ever since with Lars von Trier).
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