Here comes the rain again... falling on my head like a memory...
Who did that? Eurythmics? Anyway, it was appropriate yesterday, wasn't it? Luckily, Otis was swept up in an art fever, so she turned the kitchen into an encaustic and framing studio and passed her time away in a creative spree. I did some creative work of my own, but mostly on lesson plans and syllabi for the summer and fall and cleaning up my office.
We did take an afternoon break to meet Johnbai, fresh(?) from an in-the-rain softball game, for a showing of Paprika downtown. This anime about psychotherapists entering the dreams of patients (which, of course, Goes All Wrong) had some wonderful visuals, both clever and disturbing, but did not have the character development or narrative depth of Tokyo Godfathers, writer/director Satoshi Kon's previous offering. Too many threads were left unfollowed for the movie to be ultimately satisfying, although it was a pleasant enough way to spend an hour and a half. Put it on your Netflix queue for a double feature with this and wait for The Golden Compass.
After the movie, we stopped by at Cal and Merry's for a brief visit to the open house for their splendid new in-city digs. We may see moovie nights move to a whole new level! And then it was back to work. Maybe the sunnier skies will raw us outside more today.
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You are more generous than me on this one... Maybe because I had high expectations, but I was fully disappointed in the film and would not recommend it to anyone.
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