January 25th, 2005 - 2:44 pm
» and so it is
Over the past few days I’ve spent a ridiculous number of hours with Damien Rice’s “The Blower’s Daughter” on loop as I fiddle at some graphics, trying to put together a new pretty graphic. I’ve had the XP default green-field/blue-sky since August, and while I am still charmed by the smattering of gold-glow in the lower left (I imagine fairies) I am ready for a change. And like most changes, this one is much improved by the presence of Johnny Depp.
They are doing construction on the space next door to us, and once again I find myself infuriated by nailguns. Having spent a good portion of the summer located over an office being built out we’ve now moved next to one, complete with all the associated annoyances I’d forgotten.
In other, funnier news, the author of Movies in Fifteen Minutes has signed a book deal for just that. Spent the lunch hour laughing myself silly over her Phantom of the Opera, as I found the movie on the whole distasteful.
And I’ve just been distracted by the Oscar nominations, which I find a little infuriating. I hated The Aviator. It’s the only movie I’ve ever walked out of. I have never been so bored by a movie. I even finished watching Secret Window, for Christ’s sake, and that movie was terrible. Best Picture MY GIANT WHITE ASS. I would not be at all surprised if it won, either. Travesty. Travesty.
On the plus side, both Johnnymylove and Kate Winslet have nominations. I adore Katie Winslet. To pieces and pieces. And I loved Natalie Portman in Closer. It’s a pity Bryce Dallas Howard hadn’t a nod for The Village; that was another of my favorite performances this year. As was Joaquin’s, come to think of it.