Anyone Seen Phil?
What, no blogging? What have you been doing - Tweeting your life away?
Well, yes. I am loving tweeting at @philalbinus quite a bit and writing something longer than 140 characters seems like a lot of work. Who knew? Also, I wrote four editor’s letters for the June issues of Waters and Waters: Power and I guess I am tapped out.
With that in mind, let’s recap, shall we?
The wife and I saw Gran Torino and Doubt on DVD. GT was nicely done and Clint Eastwood could teach Tony Scott a thing or two about not moving a camera or making a jump cut. I also liked Clint’s thoughts on manhood - you don’t see that much these days. Doubt was an actor’s ream. Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman were terrific but the shy and innocent Amy Adams grows the most in this film. She learns more than she ever wanted in the course of the two weeks in which this film takes place. And Meryl Streep is awesome - most actors do regional accents while hers goes down to the street level.
Nora and I saw Up, the latest Pixar flick. Not as jaw dropping as The Incredibles or Finding Nemo or as magnificent as Wall*E but it has one of the best sequences without any dialogue I have ever seen.
Just finished Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard. Now on deck, I have 1960, a book about the presidential race between JFK, LBJ and Nixon. I wonder who wins - don’t spoil it for me. I also have the latest collection of short stories from John Updike. I refuse to say last because I bet there will be collections and unpublished stories for years to come.
Life is good.
