Listening to movies on my iPod while cleaning.  It's something I haven't done since I was a kid with movies on cassette tapes (the poor man's VHS), but it's proving to be interesting to see how much is just there in the dialogue and sound effects.  It's really hammering home the idea of every character needing their own distinct voice, how scenes flow together and so on.  I like that it's forcing me to use my least reliable sense.

The first I listened to was "A Mighty Wind," which I haven't heard forever.  Outside of being dang funny (and yes, you can tell every time a different character chimes in), I love that they wrote all the music that's in there... and I'm still genuinely touched by the song that Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara sing together at the end.


This was the first Christopher Guest movie I'd ever seen (Spinal Tap was out of print at the time) and I didn't get what the movie would be but my dad dragged me there telling me "trust me, you'll like this" and he was totally right.  And of course, my sister and I to this day will start shouting out Fred Willard lines to each other.  The best part about that is that I was explaining what this movie was to my stepbrother John and when I got to talking about Fred's character, John just went "is THAT what that's from?  Cause she does that to me ALL the time!"

I'll take the fifth on that.  And I'll also refrain from commenting on why I'm listening to movies instead of, you know, an actual AUDIObook of which I have several I need to actually listen to.

"Ack"?

Was that a good ack or a bad ack?

Alright, cool.  Just always immediately presume that Im being judged.

These movies-on-iPod are great because I can go through 'em so much quicker since I don't have to pause 'em to get water or Pomegranate juice or use the bathroom or do the laundry or anything.  Just when I have to vaccuum (which I'm doing intermittently).  One listened to Bicentennial Man (see what one did there?) and now I'm halfway through City Slickers II.  I wanted to listen to Anchorman but the audio was too soft.

Killing Them Softly

I'm not going to rate this because quite frankly I quit watching after 30 minutes.... and Brad Pitt hadn't even entered the picture yet. All I saw were two low life thugs planning a to rob some guys. Seen this kind of stuff a million times before. Boring. Oh and Ray Liotta doing exactly what he does in every film.

I found Killing Them Softly to slow and boring to waste any time with. I certainly did not care about any of the characters.

No interest in seeing this movie.  Or World War Z, for that matter.  I miss cool Brad Pitt... what's the last cool Brad Pitt movie that came out?

Listening to an audiobook now that's about 20+ hours long, so no movies for me today and some of tomorrow.  Though I am going to re-see "Into Darkness" with my sister in a few hours.  Curious to see what she thinks about it.