Last night "The Remains of the Day", tonight "The Pianist" (spoiler!)

I'm not sure how much more sadness I can take. Just when I thought last night's fare was tragic, I find it can get much, much worse.

For a time, I didn't think I'd make it through "The Pianist". The beginning is so brutally raw - graphic without being gratuitous - there were moments my throat just seized up and I wasn't sure what I needed to expel - whether I'd vomit or scream at the images but, instead, I just wept and wept and wept.

What two parts struck me most:
1) Wladyslaw Szpilman carrying the huge can of melon (?), toward the end - exhausted yet so hungry and so intent on retaining his prize that even facing what he must have thought was his imminent death at the hands of the German officer, he kept it with him.
2) Wladyslaw Szpilman playing for the Polish radio, at the end, and the joy-melting-into-sorrow that crosses his face as he meets his friend's eyes through the glass. I almost felt ashamed watching that moment - like a voyeur...like a rubbernecker - who has no business witnessing the raw emotion of someone who's suffered such incredible loss. My hat is off to Adrian Brody for such an incredible performance.


Someone pop in "You've Got Mail"; I need a fluff infusion.

Draw A Pig

http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/gallery/large.asp?id=616597&p=0&hof=1&q=personality+test


I'll admit, I've done this before so I already knew my personality from drawing the pig. This time, I decided to just indulge and have fun with it. :)

My sense of humor

( is behind this cut. Enter if you dare )

A great, funny, happy day:

For those of you who read my journal but don't bookcross, today was the day the postcards I cartoonedwere released in the bookcrossing supply store. What a thrill to see my work somewhere other than in my computer files!

I had to take Savagefuzzball to the orthodontist's today. While we were waiting, she rifled through a stack of magazines for something to read only to have the stack slide and several magazines fall to the floor. The waiting room was fairly crowded and the noise drew many sets of eyes so, when she muttered to herself "Way to spaz" (or some such thing), I grabbed a stack of mags sitting next to me and 'lobbed' them to the floor. "Feel better?" I asked after she started laughing. (Yes, I picked them back up; I'm childish, not insensitive).

On the way home, in the car, SFB recounted the work she had done. The assistant who put her new bracket in was wearing pink gloves that "stunk like dog food" and was putting both hands in her mouth, gagging her with both mass and scent. Said assistant then chastised SFB when, upon sliding it out, she found a tiny piece of food stuck to the wire. "You're supposed to brush your teeth before you come. We don't like running in to junk like this". Well, SFB did indeed brush her teeth before the appointment but she also ate a couple slices of apple on the ride to the appointment because, while I get up late in the morning, she didn't wake up until early afternoon - I didn't want her going to the appointment on an empty stomach and made her eat apple slices so she didn't have a blood-sugar nose dive. So, while this girl's fingers are filling her mouth, SFB explains, "I ate apple." Now, this isn't funny until you put a bunch of fingers in your mouth and then say "apple". Go ahead; I'll wait.
Okay, if you did it properly (or as SFB recounted it), it sounds like "a$$hole". She told me this while I was driving and I almost ran off the road I was laughing so hard.

The chicken I bought, two days ago for dinner, today, had a faint smell of rotten egg to it when I broke through the packaging. We're having Chinese, tonight. It's hot and I don't have to cook; how can I not be happy?

Casting meme

Who would you cast as spedbug ?

Rules:
1) The person must be in the movies or on TV (but doesn't have to be an actor/actress).
2) The person can be specific to a role (e.g. Jennifer Aniston's Rachel) or just the person themself.
3) You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments.
4) Post it in your journal so I can cast you as well.