The good life

It is a beautiful, beautiful day in Alabama. At 4:38pm I've been to the bank, bought a new (giant, green) purse and two matching scarves, picked up 5 book by female authors for $17.95 at a used book store, listened to my Curtis Peoples cd while tooling about H'ville with the windows down, and eaten cheesecake for lunch while sitting outside in the sun. Proper amounts of sunscreen were applied for a 45min sit in the sun. Quite productive for first Saturday*.

I'm a little over half-way through Spin Sisters, and I'm going to try to power through it by Sunday because I'm not enjoying it that much and I want to move on. I'll post up the whys on UBC when I'm done.

In other news, I picked up some Wal*Mart bargain bin movies and among them was the Dead Like Me movie which I'd never seen. I loved the show (watched it earlier this year via Netflix) and had sort of forgotten that I meant to watch the movie. I'm glad I coughed up the $5.50 to buy it. Its quite good, I think the writing and directing did a super job pushing the plot and character development forward 5 years and still preserving the spirit of the show. There was definitely a heavier serving of emotion in the film, but it was basically a whole season's worth of emotion paired with maybe 2-3 episodes worth of reaping.

I did not like the new Daisy (played by Sarah Wynter). Aside from being way less pretty than original Daisy (Laura Harris) - which was partly her hair & makeup, she's prettier in life than she was in the film - she didn't have that same proper Southern belle arrogance that I loved in Daisy. Sure, Daisy was the kind of woman that slept her way to the top, but there was an amusing, old-fashioned romance to her affairs and an innocence to her. New Daisy just seemed slutty and gold-digging. And it ruined her chemistry with Mason. There was only one scene that resurrected Mason's devotion to Daisy and in the context of his film character it didn't really make sense.

The other thing that didn't make sense to me was the scene where the new boss, Cameron, kisses George. In the special features they mention that the kiss turned out way creepier and more menacing than how it was written, but even so it seems quite out of place. Other than causelessly referring to George as sweetheart (presumably as a counterpoint to the fatherly Rube calling her "Peanut") Cameron never has any relationship built with George, the scene with the kiss is essentially the second time Cameron and George interact. I don't know, it felt strange that it never got resolved. Cameron is chopped to bits by the next time George sees him.

Okay enough of this fantastically long post.

*First Saturday- Fridays for Abby now that she works four-tens. Thursday, as the last day of the work week, is the new Friday, hence her department's "7am Friday morning meeting" is held in the conference room at 7:05am every Thursday. Also, her boss has mandated that 7:05 is the new 7:00 because he is never late, but always shows up for 7:00am at 7:05. Anyway, if Thursday is Friday, Friday can't be Friday, but neither can it be Saturday because Saturday is still Saturday (what with the morning cartoons and preceding Sunday and everything) so Friday is now first-Saturday much in the enjoyable spirit of first breakfast and second breakfast for Hobbits. Sunday is still Sunday because everything is still closed until unreasonably late in afternoon here in the South.