I’ve been stuck in a rut lately. Or, if I wanted to expose my nerd, a “feed back” loop. Things have been going poorly and every little annoyance just seems to add up to yet another example of a vast, global conspiracy targeting me. Little things (like the lid of a new bottle of soy sauce breaking) add to the bigger things that are bothering me. Then I feel even worse because I feel bad for myself when one of my best friends in the whole wide world is deployed to Iraq in the infantry. Anyway, befitting a “down” mood, I keep encountering things that just seem to make my mood even worse.
Item 1: I’m watching the Pusher trilogy at the moment. I highly recommend it to you, but the first one (which is the best, I think, so far (still haven’t watched #3, yet)) is so abrupt and brutal in its ending that I can’t help but feel empty after seeing it (which is especially odd because the main character, Frank, is completely unsympathetic). The second is a major step forward in terms of plotting and technique but it lacks the “raw wound” quality of the first film. Anyway, the movies are going to be showing in some domestic markets soon and I would recommend seeing them if you are so lucky.
