Three sentence movie reviews: Source Code

This movie combines the best ideas from the movie Groundhog's Day and the TV show Quantum Leap* to create a taunt action flick that also brings up bigger questions such as what it is to be human and alive. Directed by the same man who brought us the fabulous movie Moon, (and if we continue to get a quality story from him every two years, I will be a happy lady) this is a very well crafted movie with excellent acting. It has the bonus of leaving you with something to discuss with your movie going companion on the way home, so don't miss it.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2011/source_code.html

*Quantum Leap fans, don't miss the Scott Bakula voice cameo! It comes near the end.

Three sentence movie reviews: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

This movie is a textbook example of why it is not a good idea to do a scene-by-scene recreation of a work of literature.* Everything moved very, very slowly. Still, it was fun to see a very young Rupert, Emma & Daniel and the quiddich scene was great.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2001/harry_potter_and_the_sorcerers_stone_ver2.html

*Interestingly, I saw this when it came out and enjoyed that aspect of it. Not so this time.

20MPDC 4/26/11

Thursday 4/21
There has not been a lot of 20MPD motivation this week and I am starting to get the "this is dumb, I'm going to drop it" feeling. But I manged to rally today. I posted a new item on Craigslist and re-posted three other items that had expired without selling. If you are interested in 3/4 of a box of slug and snail repellant for $1.00, I'm your lady right now. I need to decide how many times to re-post something before moving it over to the free section. Right now one re-post feels okay, I'll check in again if the items don't sell this time around.

I went back to my Harvest Helper wordpress site and mucked around with my remaining time. It feels really different than blogger and is very confusing now, but I will keep exploring.

Monday 4/25.
The weekend did not bring a lot of 20MPDC motivation, either. So here I am on Monday. Today I posted another item on Craigslist. All my re-posts and Thursday's new post haven't had any bites. I spent the rest of the time reading about Wordpress blogs for the Harvest Helper site. It's becoming a bit more comfortable.

The importance of understanding compound words.

I had a great write up for this sign. But blogger "fixed" a problem I didn't have by "rolling everything back" to Wednesday, destroying all the posts I published on Thursday, (which were mostly recovered, thanks to a quick thinking Sara) and obliterating all my drafts. Thanks blogger. I won't be attempting to recreate my writing. You can just imagine it for yourself.

At the Fred Meyer on Interstate photo printing area:

A peek inside a building--from the street.

I've always like the look of this building. It's on the corner of SW 10th & SW Main, and the ground floor houses a Bike Gallery location. The upper floors seem to be apartments for seniors, or at least that was who I always saw sitting outside when I walked past.

There seems to be renovation happening, which means I get to peek inside from the street.

Without their windows, the apartments look small, but cozy.

Yet Another Sign

On the door to the liquor store on SW 10th.

Sign

Down the street from the Northwest Classical Theatre Company where we saw a fabulous production of Cymbeline.