I know I know.

I totally suck at this blogging thing recently, but man...it's been exhausting and the time I have free I can't devote to anything thoughtful anymore. I just listen to Zoe Keating, Radio Lab, and whatever else feels right at the moment...and I watch movies (Vicky Cristina Barcelona = Good.) and read books (Beloved was...wow. Jesus Christ Almighty was that ever a book, now onto The Fall).

I did, however, have a wonderful birthday. I invited the "inner circle" so-to-speak, which should contain all of you if you lived in New York, and just boiled up pots and pots of delicious Pasta Fresca from the pasta store a couple of stores down, and cracked 10 bottles of wine as people came in and out and drank and ate themselves silly. Apparently I woke up face down on my desk and then moved to my bed, but I have no memory of that.

As for today, Monday, which I ballsily requested off for vacation during this Great Recession, I decided to just have a day of nothing: I woke up, did some cleaning, ate some leftover baguette, got a haircut, went to see Watchmen on IMAX, went to the gym, and came home to movie and wine (and of course, some work). In either case, it was a good day, and I think I'm ready to tackle the office again and NOT get fired, as it appears my law firm is doing from the most recent Law Blog. I'm starting to see more people I know get laid off and...it's just devastating. It just hits the reset button and life has to start out again. Godspeed and good luck to all of you out there, because it's a dangerous and vicious economy, and we are blessed who can hold on to a good paycheck in these moments.

As for Watchmen, I really don't know how I feel about it. I read the Godfather and then watched the Godfather movie, and felt absolutely nothing from the film because I knew every single detail that was going to be unleashed and didn't really have much love for the movie. I read the book on a sweaty mattress in Delhi, sleeping under a fan while sweating my balls off and developing heat rash, and I thought the book was great. By the time I saw the movie, I was so familiar that I wasn't able to see the movie for what it was. The same goes for Watchmen. I don't have any particular thoughts about the movie except:

1) The fight scenes were stupid. What the hell? Slow-mo "300" violence doesn't make sense if the rest of the movie you've crafted is so grim and moody.
2) Zack Snyder's use of music is embarrassing. Cueing Mozart's Requiem doesn't automatically lend gravity to a scene. Nor does the Sound of Silence.
3) I sorta wanted to see what a Giant Squid looks like.

Otherwise, it appears that his biggest fault was hewing too closely to the panels themselves. I really am curious how people who haven't read the original feel about the movie, because I spent the two and a half hours vigorously scraping the bottom of my nacho cheese cup (delightedly), looking around the huge and packed stadium IMAX seating at 2pm on a MONDAY (perplexedly), and waiting to see how he managed to wrangle the complexity and visuals into a movie format (detachedly).

All in all, it was a good day.

P.S. I apologize if this post was scatterbrained, boring, stupid, embarassing, or full of errors. I have had significant amounts of wine to go with my "working from home" and have dealt with a difficult emotional situation in the last 2 hours that I'm still upset about. Peace out.