July 20, 2014

The Muppet Babies. I forgot all about watching several episodes of that yesterday. That was one of my favorite shows as a kid and I would say it holds up pretty well. It makes me nostalgic for not only my childhood but also a time when my imagination was wildly adept and creating anything I wanted. Good times. In one of the episodes I watched it was the nanny's birthday and the Muppets were trying to guess how old she was. I think it was Gonzo that came up with an age somewhere over 100 and when one of the other Muppets asked how he knew that he replied that he had counted the rings on her socks. Hilarious.

This morning I finished watching The Brass Teapot and it is a movie I would watch again. It starred Michael Angarano (who I'm a fan of) and Juno Temple (who was also in Mr. Nobody). The movie is about a young married couple who find a brass teapot that will give them money whenever they experience pain. It starts with very minor injuries and quickly escalates. I guess it could be considered a bit of a dark comedy but I would say it was mostly comedy. I enjoyed it.

I finally got around to watching Her today and I liked it. Joaquin Phoenix is really good at playing strange and awkward. But he was also endearing. I could also see Will Ferrell playing the role. I also really liked the phone in the movie. It kind of reminded me of one of those old double picture frames that fold in the middle. It would suck for texting but in that future everything can be dictated to the phone so texting with a keyboard really isn't an issue. I also liked the look of the operating system in the movie, how it was kind of 3D and had depth and you could move around in that environment. Windows kind of has that feel when you use the Windows Key + TAB to cycle through open windows but I imagine there is some version of Linux out there that can mimic it much better. My favorite part of the movie was how Joaquin Phoenix's character and Amy Adams' character were actually just friends. Yes, they had dated briefly in the past, but there wasn't an underlying sexual tension in the present. It is a thing that exists in the real world but it is so rare to see in movies. This was also probably my favorite movie with Scarlett Johansson, I would say mostly because she wasn't physically in the movie.

I again played a couple rounds of BF4 and despite being on a crappy team once again, I would say I did marginally better than yesterday. My deaths outnumbered my kills in both games but I got a lot of assists. In general I suck at killing people but at least tonight I was getting hit markers on the guys I was shooting at. I also had one epic moment where I killed four guys in quick succession. For about five seconds there I felt like a badass.

I took a nap this afternoon but now I am going to try and go to bed so I can wake up way too early for my haircut in the morning. Fingers crossed that I actually fall asleep because work is going to be long enough without being super tired.