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[wickedflea]

Nutty-ass Monday. I was working 'til late last night on my latest proofreading project and barely made it to work on time this morning. Then I spent half the morning on the phone -- not a good way to get your head straight on a Monday morning. Oh, well. At least it made the morning go fairly quickly.

Sometime last week, I noticed a bunch of signs around my neighborhood posted by someone looking for a lost cat named Manny. I thought that a pretty cool name for a cat, then remembered the title of that Luscious Jackson EP, In Search of Manny. Yeah, I thought, they're in search of Manny. Then, Saturday night, I watched the movie Go, in which there's a character named Manny. I didn't really think anything about it until the scene in which Manny -- rolling on X -- sees (hallucinates?) a sign for a lost cat named Manny. Holy shit, I thought -- we're ALL in search of Manny! It's the great quest of all humanity -- the Search for Manny.

Well, it made sense at the time. Sort of, anyway.



I also watched Donnie Darko. The weirdness of Go was no match for the tussin freakout of Darko. I really dig it -- I think. It freaked me out, but god hell, it was an experience. I've never seen anything like it. I gotta watch it again when I muster the nerve. Oh, and check out the website. It's just about as fucked up as the movie.

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[arielmeadow.livejournal.com]

If you have access to a DVD player, I must recommend that you get the Donnie Darko DVD IMMEDIATELY! There is so much that was cut out of the movie, and SO much backstory (and epilogue) that Richard Kelly (writer/dir) explains on the DVD. BEST DVD EVER! You actually get to read "The Philosophy of Time Travel" book on the DVD. LOVE IT! LOVED THAT MOVIE! DROWING IN MY OWN ENTHUSIASM!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool, thanks! I actually watched it on DVD -- a rental from Netflix -- but I already sent it off without even thinking to check out the extras. I have to buy it now, though -- especially if it sheds more light on things!

[trivial-things.livejournal.com]

Has Netflix improved any? We were one of the first customers. It was neat at first, but then it started sucking ass that it took forever to mail the DVDs to and from California to my mailbox in Starkville (granted, the slowest movement was probably from Jackson to my mailbox). You could have 5 at a time then too. Have they started any more distribution centers that you know of? How long does it take for you to get a DVD?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed Netflix quite a bit since joining a few months ago. It doesn't take long for me to get discs -- usually only two or three days. (Well, from the time they send them out, that is. About 5-7 days from the time I return a batch until getting the next.) My discs almost always come from a distibution center in Flushing, NY, which of course is less than 100 miles from here. It might still take a good while for discs to get down south. (Unless they have other dist. centers -- but the only two that I know of are in NY and California.)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I think the Darko website can drive people insane simply by moving so freakin' slow.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- I tried to load it here at work a few minutes ago and thought my machine was going to overheat!

[arielmeadow.livejournal.com]

...Yet another reason to get the DVD! The entire website is on it, and there's no need for those stupid passwords (or server lag). The website has all the epilogue information in it, and some of it totally facinating.

My favorite part of the DVD? The commentary track for the "I'm not afraid anymore!" informercials. Hee hee. I'm snickering just thinking about it.

...Sorry to be psycho enthusiastic about this, but it's without a doubt the most feature-rich DVD I've ever rented. SO GOOD! (And yes, I'll shut up now.)

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

http://www.geocities.com/nrgbalance/wedding.htm

I found Manny... and I married him.

Manny from heaven

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

All right -- finally a finder amongst all these Manny seekers! That's kind of reassuring. :) Great pictures, too.

Re: Manny from heaven

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Hee Hee... thanks. I had to read your post to the old man, now he's all puffed up thinking the world is looking for him (G)

Re: Manny from heaven

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heh, just call him "the old man" a few more times and that'll bring him right down to size.

Re: Manny from heaven

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

*snort*... well, he's fourteen years older than me, so technically, he *is* the old man (G)

But no, I don't rub it in. I've always liked older men ;-)

[splunty.livejournal.com]

You may have seen my post with my "five favorite movies". Or if I even did that. But this is one of them. It doesn't match the brilliance of "The Boondock Saints" or "Brazil," but it was still a great flick.

Even after reading extensively about it, it still baffles me a bit.... I am babbling and stupid.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Funny that you mention Brazil. After I finished watching Donnie Darko, I kept thinking that I'd never seen a movie as striking and original -- except maybe Brazil. That reminds me, I gotta watch Brazil again soon -- it's been a while.