Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, June 06, 2005 The Pitch: It's like Sleepless In Seattle meets While You Were Sleeping! Do they give an academy award for staving off the feeling you've paid ten dollars to watch utter bullshit? Because if there is, Paul Giamatti should totally win for Cinderella Man. It's too long and too painful a story to go into, but I saw Seabiscuit-But-Boxing-Not-Racing-And-He's-A-Guy-Not-A-Horse (the orginal, and I still say superior, working title) this weekend and I ended up getting drawn into mainly because of P.G. Crowe and Zewelleger did fine too with what they had, but it was Giamatti who I want to see again, whereas I kinda don't care if I never see Russell onscreen again and I totally never want to see Renee ever, for reasons I can't quite pin down. Oh, and Jethro's dad was okay too, considering he could have scored a role with more nuance if he'd chosen to play Satan in a Jack T. Chick adaptation.As for the pitch in the title, I was actually glad when our next door neighbor started throwing huge planks of wood and yelling at his cronies around 5:45 a.m. Originally, I'd planned to get up at 5:30 a.m. but at 4:55 had decided that just wasn't going to be doable and reset the alarm for 6:30. So the ensuing plank-throwing and crony-wrangling I took as a message from God (a cruel, indelicate, eye-gouging God) that I should get my ass out of bed and get moving. Like I said, glad I did. I'd given myself a distinct writing assignment for this morning before work and I actually did it, thus allowing me to continue this "how to" book I'm reading, and the new carrying case I'd ordered for the Alphasmart works a million times better for me than the old one (no more forgetting to take it with me in my exhausted pre-six a.m. departures). If I can now somehow sneak in reviews for the CE blog while working this morning, I'll be more or less on top of the game. posted by Jeff Lester | 9:12 AM | |
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