i worked yesterday, my only work day in my 6-days off run. still got two more days off. yay. when i have days off i like to just sit back and watch movies in the comfort of my own home. the roommate spent saturday and sunday night with me. we're (still okay. just friends). i started showing her the beginning of Shaun of the Dead but we ended up watching the whole thing saturday night :) today we watched Le trou, Jacques Becker's excellent prison escape film (Criterion are prepping two of his films for release later this month). i watched it friday night and loved it. told her about it and she ended up wanting to see it too.
tonight i should be watching Criterion's two-disc set for Cassavetes' Faces.
a friend/coworker of mine got the idea to have a party during the holidays for all of us. i told him we could do it at my place i had it to myself so we wouldn't be bothering anybody else. last week he asked me when we could do it. so the date is set for saturday. the thing is, though, he's not working much these days so he's not there to set it up. we started talking about it to various people last week but this week we have to get something together. i also got a cool idea -- i wanna ask the people who'll be coming to bring me a couple of cd's from their collection. i was gonna do that anyway, but the idea is this -- i'll burn random songs off all the albums on a couple of cd's and play them at the party as the background music. this way my cd's won't be hogging the cd player all night (not that i don't like my cd collection, i do, but i don't wanna be pushing my tastes on people all night) and different styles will keep popping up, and because of the random nature of the process, we'll be able to laugh at everyone :) of course this won't be the end-all-be-all of the night, the booze and the talking will be, but this will keep things nice and lively. just an idea i had today that i thought could be cool.
still not regretting - i'm actually loving - my harman/kardon purchase.
Paz Vega, who recently got a lot of favorable press for her turn in the horribly-titled Spanglish, was the lead in Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia) !! i know she's a star in Spain but i never thought i'd seen her before (i haven't seen the film yet, only the trailer and the cover art). it's a small world, i guess, is what i'm trying to say.
Courtney's writing with Billy again (or the other way around, really). this is good news. i always love it when Billy writes, by himself or with anyone else. like everyone else, i've honestly stopped caring about Courtney for the past couple of years but i can safely say she's piqued my interest.
Garbage - Bleed Like Me has an official street date now -- April 12th for North America / April 11th for the rest of the world.
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