The Functioning Slacker

When you take vacation days, do you prefer to lump them together into large bodies of non work-like enjoyability, or do you like to use them more sparingly, like a light seasoning on an otherwise bland-potatoes sort of month? I'm a bland-potatoes sort of guy myself.  I've actually managed to use about half of my three weeks worth of 2009 PTO with this method, or at least I will have ...

At Least I Want My Life to Be a Non-stop Nelly Video

... my favorite is Waiting for Guffman because it's the world I'm most familiar with (and Parker Posey's audition scene is awesome), but they're pretty much all at the same level of humor and enjoyability. No real surprises or revelations. I haven't seen For Your Consideration yet, but I imagine I would like it well enough. Best in Show was pretty funny, as expected. I saw that 1408 was ...

Graves & Love

... and memorable in their creative settings. Fans of vampire tales, romance, fantasy and science fiction will find plenty to enjoy in LOVE IS HELL." (Teen Reads) "Overall, the stories are equal in enjoyability and only make you crave more from the authors, not for further closure like the previous "Hell" anthology. Given the title, I would have liked to see some more twisty, darker plotlines, but ...

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Cinema Update!

...: AUSTRALIA : B-/C+ (filmyness), B+ (enjoyability) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE : A (filmyness), A+ ...) CHANGELING : A/A- (filmyness), A (enjoyability) I went to Australia on Friday... Jackman). B-/C+ (filmyness), B+ (enjoyability) Now let me interrupt this ... you soon. A (filmyness), A+ (enjoyability) And finally... on a more ... year. A/A- (filmyness), A (enjoyability) On the whole...   these are ...

There will be Blood

Enjoyability:  3.75 oil drilling S and C:  4.5 Excellent Appeal:  2 oil Smart:  4 good depiction of oil drilling Presentation:  4.5 Excellent even if it is a little lengthy Closing Comments:  This movie for me was like The Lives of Others as in the sense that I'm really glad I watched it, yet I don't really see me watching this again.  Also, the subject for the movie was something that no one ever...

... the kinds of things you do when you hang out at a friends house. Those who lost, and especially their fans, were perturbed that their friends talent didn't win over my friend's average enjoyability. But I think that therein lies the secret to their success. Watching them on stage for all those hours was easy to do because it was like visiting with friends... just hanging out. Consequently, there ...

Michael Clayton

Enjoyability:  3.75 not bad for the genre S and C:  3 ok use for genre Appeal:  1 not really into this type of stuff Smart:  3.5 worked on multilevels Presentation:  4 Delivered what it was suppose to do Closing Comments:  Clayton wasn't a bad movie.  If you like the legal type thriller movie then you'll probably love this.  I wasn't impressed by it and it just wasn't my kind of movie. Overall ...

Holiday report

Enjoyability of time with family was at an all time high this Christmas.  Discussions/references about church activities and/or mormonism: Infrequent. Respect of my choices: At an all time high. Number of hurtful put-downs: Zero. Level of superiority-vibe (church-related or not) coming from family members: Extremely low. Family members finally treating me like a fellow adult: Yes....

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

Enjoyability:  4.5 cool zombies S and C:  4.5 pretty high tech for the era Appeal:  2.5 ehh.... Smart:  4 Zombies and culture and stuff Presentation:  4.5 Putting the stuff together Closing Comments:  Back in 1979 this was the awesomest experience you could have with Zombies.  Now, it shows age but is still pretty cool when you take it in context.  For it's time and what it did, it easily is the ...