THAT OTHER PIECE OF LAND OVER THERE

I leave for Denver today so I can get up at like 3 in the morning to fly to someplace and then from there to NYC and then from there to Prague. Its going to be a long day. Anywho, I don't have tons of time before my last babysitting job for a month but I though I would drop in to let everyone know that I am off! Love you all.

BACK OF THE TRUCK

The other night I watched Wristcutters: A Love Story and had wanted to put this video on here but embedding is disabled so you'll have to click the link. I also just wanted to share that tonight I rode down to town at dusk in the back of my dad's truck. It was a warm summer night and I was finishing off a popsicle. It was such a fantastic experience. I forgot how good it is to ride back there. My dad usually has a cap on the back but took it off recently when my parents rented a tiller. We used to ride home in the back of my dad's truck when he picked us up from school. On really good days we would also get to go to 7/11 and get a slurpee or something. Anyway it was really lovely and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. We walked around Old Pond Park which is flooded right now because the river is so high. Its really intense right now, just gushing. Coco had a great time running through the shallow pools of water and kept picking up long tree branches to run around with so my dad and I had to watch our legs. I also rode home in the back of the truck laying on top of my dad's toolbox to watch the stars and the night sky. I remember once when we went camping we were driving late attempting to find a spot and I rolled my window down all the way and put my pillow so I could lay with my head partially out the window and stare at the stars. It reminded me of that night.

MORE

Having just read the updates of Janine's new blog: Janine in Alaska I just felt the need to state that Janine is such a wonderful amazing person and her adventure sounds so fantastic. I really want to visit her in Alaska, even if she is homeless and camping about. I would recommend reading her most recent posts: "A New Beginning" and "Well, we're homeless. But happy!" I was just thinking about her today due to another search I performed for my own Trivial Pursuit while shopping with my mama. Actually maybe I will share some of the items that became mine today starting with: This hat.Its a big sun/cowboy hat that I found in the men's section of Sports Authority. Thank you mom's coupon... or gift certificate for 25 dollars in goods. Also purchased at Sports Authority:
A black top that has detailing that is slightly see through in the parts of the shirt with the pattern to make contrast.
A super comfortable purple skirt.
And now things from Target:
A little traveler's alarm clock.
An Ethernet cable.
Mini health and beauty items.
A case for the baby.And I found The Windup Bird Chronicle in the library! I called at one point to make sure they had it and when I went in to find it had no luck... this time however I managed to discover it along with several other books by the author (Haruki Murakami).

WATCH

I know that I have put this somewhere on here before but I have just read and watched this story and this trailer is just so good... so it is going to be here in another location: here. I really love the movie, it is fantastic, good color tones and temperatures, good soundtrack, the Lisbon girls are totally it girls as well. I think I also appreciate the movie more now that I could pick up on the details from the book. It was a wonderful adaptation of the novel, it followed it almost exactly with the exception of the end where minor things were changed or emitted. I want it.

Also, the new Avi Buffalo was at the radio station (KDNK) and I played this song on my first show of this summer.

CAN YOU BUY DIAPERS AT THE GROCERY STORE?

Today T was singing quite a bit and I managed to get little snippits on my cell. This one is a gem though: she sings "can you buy diapers at the grocery store? Yes, you can buy diapers at the grocery store." Complete with fist microphone. Other hits of the day were about baths, not hitting your head on the table, and other important subjects.

PIE

I always think of this scene when I am making a pie.

NETFLIX

I got La Jetee and San Soleil on Netflix from the Criterion Collection. Both films are by the director Chris Marker. Of course I have seen La Jetee many times in film classes and even posted a clip from it on here once, where the woman wakes up. San Soleil "tells the story of a globe-trotting, soul-searching cameraman. Soleil relies on the narration of the cameraman's travel log." Says the little envelope the movie comes in. I really like it. It is all just interesting things that the cameraman thinks about matched with images. It works with my brain and I have realized it is a film I've wanted to make in a sense. I remember pitching an idea to Alec that was all about what I found that was beautiful that people overlooked. Using film to show people things like photography does I suppose. He looked at me skeptically when I tried to explain how something like "how white this paper is compared to other paper" and how many people wouldn't notice. He was one of those people who wouldn't have noticed. That is not the greatest example I must say, the idea relied on the fact that people just don't pay attention and something as lovely and simple as light melting down buildings at the right time of day is beautiful. Paying attention to the world allows you to actually look at it. Anyway, the film is very interesting, with subtle social commentaries. Here is the Intro:
Also, with the subject of Netflix... I have figured out a way to get a copy of Fight Club I think (since Evan lost mine...) that is kinda cheating the system. Jane once sent back one of her DVDs by accident by putting it in the envelope and ended up trading movies with Netflix. They are still sending them DVDs and didn't say anything. They sent us an extra copy of Horton Hears a Who so I may just switch it out for Fight Club and then they have just sent us an extra copy of the movie I want. We'll see how it goes.