Seriously.
This weekend, starting sometime around lunch on Saturday, I had something very sharp in my left eye. I am worried that it may still be there too. How in the hell can something stay in your eye that long!? Even when you are flushing it out with solution like every few minutes? Here’s hoping it’s gone.
This weekend, we also went to an Italian Greyhound meet up. While it was fun to see all of the IGs, and let Sydney play (i.e., get humped by) with other IGs, it wasn’t everything I was hoping for. I honestly was hoping that it was going to be a gathering where people actually talked and tried to get to know one another. Well, the only people that we “met” were people that we went up to and engaged in conversation. And of those, we didn’t even get many of their names! It was so strange, honestly, because why else would you have a “meet up”? I know it is for the dogs to play, but that can’t be it? Or can it? Maybe it was the heat. Either way, we will give it a go next month and see if people are friendlier.
Other than that, it was a pretty uneventful weekend. I did watch Superman II, and came to the realization that many of the movies that are made today are WAY better than movies made 20+ years ago. It is almost like they take making movies more seriously now… perhaps it is because their is more money riding on it? Either way, I am grateful movie making has gotten better (although, not in every case… I did see that Basic Instinct 2 is out on DVD).
Weekends should include Monday (or Friday)… I am still set on weekend mode this morning. Eh, you get to enjoy the random train of though as a result. Hope your Monday is more eventful!
I’m glad our evening out constituted uneventfulness.
I don’t know… I thought it was pretty funny when you got out the industrial sized eye drop bottle to flush your eye every 20 minutes.
I think people are afraid of looking foolish or are embarrased. I know i’m going to make fun of them or embarrass myself so I don’t care. I talk to strangers all the time-well when I have the energy. It takes a lot to get people to talk. The art of talking is lost.
I say, shy is cute when you’re 5-8 or even 18, anything over is a social disorder.
Dave, I think it was the combination of the bland nachos and me having to go home early (boo) because of my eye that made it somewhat uneventful. We shall have to make that one up… oh yes we shall.
A scratch on the eye feels the same as something in it. After an accident with a circular saw. I was convinced that something in my eye. The trip to the emergency room proved that while I did get something in my eye it wasn’t there when I got there, but despite the crazy pain. Take care of them eyes!
Like Robert said you probably scratched your eye. If it’s still bugging you after today you should see about getting some drops from your eye doctor. Visine or saline solution will help keep your eye cleared out but won’t accelerate the healing.
As for the meet up, sometimes you just have to be willing to make the effort (which you guys did). It’s weird though because dog people are usually very friendly and if nothing else they will talk about their dogs nonstop.
Not trying to reignite a feud here, but your statement that movies today are better than ones made 20 years ago has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard uttered. Movies have never been worse — Little Man, Click, you name it … they’re all products, designed to sell more product. Have you never seen The Godfather, Chinatown, Sunset Boulevard, Network, Being There, All About Eve, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, five thousand other movies I could name. You really think people will be watching “You, Me and Dupree” 20 years from now?
mal, you can easily argue both points of the movie statement. Yes, there are dozens if not hundreds of great movies from decades ago that will remain people’s favorites for decades more. I doubt duane was stating that “You, Me, and Dupree” is better than those movies. Since there are so many great movies in our past, writers, directors, and producers are forced to come up with new and fresh content otherwise movies become stale and boring. That constant creativity along with society’s evolving taste could easily justify a statement that movies are getting better … not all moves, but some just like not all movies in our past are groundbreaking nor legendary.
atlmalcontent doesn’t want to ignite a feud, yet he says it three times! LOL (Just kidding - I know you probably had some computer trouble while submitting.)
atlmalcontent: First of all, did you even read what I wrote? Let’s look at it again:
Hmm… obviously, I was referring to my viewing of Superman II, and one could surmise, that I would probably referencing the newer Superman Movie, and in turn referencing how it was made better and turned out to be much more enjoyable without having to say exactly that. I also said that MANY of the movies made today are way better than movies made 20+ years ago. Again, I said MANY, not all. That means that to me, many, but not all, movies made today are better in my opinion. And, just to show that I didn’t mean EVERY movie, I picked a stinker that came out recently to show that I obviously wasn’t talking about every movie.
That begs me to ask you, again; why must you only see the negative (I know, I know, malcontent, I get it)? There are many movies that I know many people herald as fantastic and wonderful and that will always be “classics”, but, if I don’t agree, and I don’t own the super deluxe edition DVD boxed set of Citizen Cane, but I do own a copy of Showgirls, well, that’s my prerogative. All I’m saying is that I don’t believe every movie made today is better than any movie that proceeded it, but I also don’t look at these movies that everyone heralds as wonderful classics and swoon; many of them suck. If I don’t like a movie, it doesn’t matter how many critics jizzed their pants over it, if it isn’t good to me, it isn’t good TO ME. And, since what you like and enjoy is completely subjective, I think that I am allowed to have that opinion, right?
Also, I would just like to state, for the record, that every single movie you mentioned, every single one, I have never even seen. Most of them I don’t even have a glimmer of a desire to see (ESPECIALLY the newer ones you mentioned). But, that’s my prerogative, because movies are made so that people can enjoy them. I enjoy the ones I do, and you enjoy the ones that you do; that’s the beauty of it. And just so you know, saying your opinion isn’t “the stupidest thing ever uttered”; especially when others neglect to read it completely and then generalize the statements you make. If you don’t agree, then fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but I won’t be calling your opinion the “stupidest thing ever uttered”; I believe you are entitled to it, just as I believe I am entitled to mine.
Do yourself a favor and see those movies, you’d be hard-pressed not to like them (”All About Eve” in particular is campy, bitchy and BRILLIANT).
Of course you’re entitled to like what you want, but you won’t find an informed movie lover alive who’d agree that films have gotten better, unless it’s special effects and product placement you crave.
Seriously dude, hit the button once and simmer down.
I don’t think, personally, that the “informed movie lover” has any “better” of an opinion than anyone else. I personally do like special effects, i.e., the new Superman movie, and don’t always need a movie that is heralded as a critical delight in order to please me. Frankly, a lot of those movies bore the hell out of me, and I know I am not the only one.
If the “informed” people you are talking about are movie critics, well, then that is actually perfect; I don’t usually agree with them anyway (neither do most people).
Finally, I consider myself an informed movie lover, mainly because I am informed as to what movies I like, and as such, I seek them out. That sounds like the best plan to me.
I really can’t stand movie snobs.