{"id":226,"date":"2007-12-11T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2010-02-27T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:53:39","slug":"her-husband-of-nineteen-years-danced-madly-at-her-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/her-husband-of-nineteen-years-danced-madly-at-her-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"her husband of nineteen years danced madly at her feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I am really jonesing to go the movies.<\/p>\n

Movies (in the theater) are something that we’ve mostly given up since Gus came along. Tickets are so expensive and babysitting is so expensive that we’ve only seen a handful of movies in the past six yrs. Less than ten, certainly.<\/p>\n

We do use Netflix, but even our enthusiasm for that seems to wax and wane. Movies are so loooong these days, not served in bite-sized chunks like TV. Of course, while I realize that if you watch 4 episodes of a show (cough, 30 Rock<\/i>, cough) in a row then you could have watched a movie, for some reason we still find ourselves gravitating to TV more often than movies.<\/p>\n

But I read the paper and the New Yorker<\/i> and Entertainment Weekly<\/i>, so I know what time it is with the movies, sorta. And right now there are three movies that I are really making me want to plunk down the ca$h:<\/p>\n

1. The Golden Compass<\/i>: This book, it is so amazing. I haven’t read it in a few years and am rereading it now and MAN I’d forgotten how amazing it is, miss-your-subway-stop amazing. The previews look lush, but the reviews are lukewarm. After reading a this review<\/a> that Jonathan sent me I am chomping at the bit somewhat less, but I still want to see it.<\/p>\n

The drag is that I think Gus is still a leetle<\/i> bit too young for this, so we can’t bring him along. Plus I am going to have to play the snooty librarian card here and insist that he read the book first, esp. if the reviews are accurate.<\/p>\n

2. Juno<\/i>: Thinking about this movie always puts the Throwing Muses song of the same title right into my head. This cute little movie is also being reviewed every which where recently. BUT, these reviews have been completely positive. Jason Bateman! Michael Cera! Jennifer Garner! What could be bad about that? No CGI, so it’s not big-screen-necessary, so we will probably wait on it. But it’s on the list, oh yes it is.<\/p>\n

3. Control<\/i>: Here in NYC this movie is still playing in a few places, though I’m sure it’ll be leaving the theaters soon. Again, good reviews. Poor Ian Curtis (though I must admit to mixed feelings because I like New Order at least as much as Joy Division, sometimes more, and who knows how things would have turned out had he not died?). The aged music geek in me requires a screening of this film (pronounced FIL-um). Would be nice to see in the theater, all theatrical-like, but I guess not required. Another for the Netflix queue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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