other news -- dvd rentals. i've been dvd-obsessed this past week, being a member of one online rental service and trying out another, dividing my choices between the two and seeing what comes up. well, i've been in dvd mode this past week (with more than a few discs for the weekend; i'm not working and the roommate's away :) and the Criterions are finally flooding in. this week it was David Lean's Great Expectations, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (speaking of which, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts currently has a show on Cocteau. i didn't know Truffaut pushed him to do Testament of Orpheus and actually gave him the money he got from his 400 Blow win at Cannes to do it. very cool), and Lynne Ramsay's bleak-but-never-depressing Ratcatcher. i have my work cut out for myself this weekend with the following discs: Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, De Palma's Sisters, Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba, and Cocteau's Orpheus.
oh, and we finally got our vacation pay yesterday. i have only one thing to say -- mucho pesos, my friends! wow. it's been ages since my account has seen that much money, i'll tell you that. i was ecstatic when i saw how much i'd got. flabbergasted, really. i'm not gonna spend it all (i'm even gonna try not to spend at least half of it) but it feels great to know that you've got that cash there.
that's it for now.
(oh, i still got to watch those last two episodes of 24. lol)
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