January 05, 2004

well, the roommate came home after her x-rays (she's got some sort of light trauma to the head or something like that; she has to take an advil every 2 hours or so. should clear up soon) so i asked for a ride to the nearest video store to rent american wedding. there's nothing good coming on dvd lately so this was my only chance at renting something. thankfully they had the unrated version -- but no widescreens. all full screen versions. dammit.

so to make sure i couldn't salvage this mission (i had to walk back home - 10 minutes in the cold, grey day), i looked around.

much to my surprise, i found (at least) two movies i wanted to rent! the "international" movie section is always good for a quick look; but this is a corner video store, not quite a big one that would have every indie release i'd want.

anyway, i got:

+ manon briand's la turbulence des fluides (what made me finally decide to pick it up? the 2.35 aspect ratio logo on the back :)
+ aki kaurismaki's the man without a past

i'm a happy man.
i'll watch one this afternoon (tonight the roommate and i are gonna finally watch the last two episodes of 24 (i've seen but not the roommate) before tomorrow's return to the series) and the other one tomorrow during the day.

this two-day "weekend" of mine just got a lot better (not to mention all the ear-busting rambling you can expect today and tomorrow as i get my much-awaited packages through the mail :)

Posted by Anonymous | 1:42 PM |