The Aerie
Oh, look, it's a week later!
Sorry, but you know how it is. It's not like I haven't complained
before that each of my years is 52 days long. So here it is a week
later. Oy.
Last week's highlight was a work-binge at a client site Friday and
Saturday. Worked from 3 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday, with eight
short hours off for sleep. Cry me a river, I know, but I'm getting too
old for such nonsense.
Immediately thereafter we went over Rachels apartment for turkey and
another vieweing of "The Matrix". It's interesting that so many of the
people I've urged to watch this film need and want to watch it a
couple of times through. When I point out that the movie starts and
ends in the same room, they start to catch the clues. Point out that
Neo sticks his finger through a looking glass.. and that the looking
glass then goes down HIM, and they start to catch there are hidden
levels to this movies.
Which is why I'm giving "Matrix Reloaded" the benefit of the doubt.
Critics who just want to watch the movie one time and "get it" may ( I
said "may") be falling into a trap. I'm not sure. Certainly on the
surface it is not as good as the original. Too many cliche's, to much
juvenile humor, too many plot hiccoughs. For example, why would an AI
computer program be interested in creating a dessert that gives human
women orgasms? Why would the AI want a hummer? And why would another
AI program be jealous of the first? If the point is to establish that
AI's are people too, well, so far I'm not convinced.
We're planning on going to see "Matrix Reloaded" again tonight so that
we can then discuss and analyze it.
[01als12.l.jpg] Father's Day was a hit. The family put together "Al's
Breakfast". Al Bergstrom, founder of one of my favorite dives, Al's
Breakfast", died last week at 97 years of age The family knew that
Al's is one of my fave joints, so they whipped up my usual order
(Eggs, Ugly Bacon, Whole Wheat Toast, Coffee, and Whole Wheat
Blueberry Pancakes), and the kids made me a menu and took turns
calling everybody's "orders". Theresa taught them to say "I want two
shortwheatblues on a round with sun on a shingle!" just the way the
folks at Al's do.
Afterwards I sat out in the couch swing and read the paper, and then
my daughter gave me a 20 minute massage. And when I logged into the
computer, my birthmother had sent me a B&N certificate that I used to
pre-order The Two Towers on DVD.
The rest of the day I did absolutely nothing. We took the kids to the
lake, I read a book, took it easy. All in all, a great Father's Day.
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Posted by Albatross at June 18, 2003 12:00 AM