Books: Blindness by José Saramago
-When a number of people begin to mysteriously go blind, the government fears an epidemic and quarantines the stricken. With no help from the outside world, the quarantined must discover how to survive without what we take for granted, and just what truly separates humans from animals. It centers around a lady who is mysteriously immune, yet followed her husband to quarantine.
Saramago has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and a movie starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, and Gael García Bernal.
Movies: Groundhog Day
-Starring Bill Murray as self-absorbed weatherman Phil, who reluctantly is returning to Punxsutawney, PA for his third annual report on the Groundhog Day festivities there. When he wakes up the next morning, though, he finds he is doomed to repeat this holiday in his own personal hell again and again.
Hilarity and sadness ensue (it is Bill Murray after all), and Phil is forced to see there is more angles to life than just himself. (PS- Punxsutawney, to my regrets, is a real place and really hard to spell; the Groundhog Day festivities featured in the movie do actually happen annually.)
Music: Rocket by Primitive Radio Gods
-It's not a surprise you might have heard of these guys, though it is quite sad; Primitive Radio Gods' big hit Rocket is a great album. Hailing from Santa Barbara, CA, USA, these chicos deal out some of that Alt Rock that the 90's were great for. The song that got them famous, Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand, is a great shoegazer and was a hit in the 90's and featured on Jim Carrey's The Cable Guy. That's about the extent of their popularity, but the rest is worth checking out.
That's about all for today, I'll see you in the future?
Ciao
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I've actually been thinking about reading blineness. you dont happen to own it do you?
ReplyDeletecheers to the posting