My custom is to take a week off after the Chicago International Film Festival. Regular readers will recall that instead, this last year I launched right into the most massively stressful thing I have ever done ever; it involved as I recall researching and writing the equivalent of five to ten MFA theses in the span of 45 days.
Anyway, I'm correcting that now. Right now: I've actually been in Florida since Tuesday, and thanks to the magic of the internets, I was able to set this up to post before I left. In fact, I wrote it on Monday: so I am writing about an event that hasn't happened yet as though it has, and you are reading about it as though it's about to happen soon even though it's halfway over. MY GOD, we live in an amazing age.
The point being, I'm taking a short vacation from blogging, and the next few days will be filled up with some amuse-bouche that I set to go up before I left. When I return, if things go as I hope, I'll be just about ready to start posting my Top 100 of the Decade List, and launch into (sigh) another director retrospective, though I might also put that off until the list-making is completely done. We'll see how well I recharge my batteries this week.
21 January 2010
3 comments:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
I just went on vacation to the Caribbean and it was the shit for feeling ~refreshed and rejuvenated~ Have fun, and don't watch TOO many movies.
ReplyDeleteOr do...
I wish you rest.
ReplyDeleteHere in Spain most people take a 4 week vacation. It's weird when watching American movies, how the characters relate to their vacation. When bosses suddenly order the hero to take a vacation, or the hero claims he hasn't taken one in years (!!!).
Thus the jealousy many Americans feel for Europeans. It also leads to an important fact for someone visiting Europe: don't go in August. Half of what you want to do will be closed.
ReplyDelete