Weekend Wonders

Saturday night we attend a party with the theme of ‘post holiday depression’. Although it is called a post-holiday depression party, I keep referring to it as a postpartum depression party. We are supposed to bring some sort of white elephant gift apropos to a post holiday depression party. As it is my first one, I don’t have experience for such. My consultation to Miss Manners was not helpful. I thought about bringing old prescriptions mentioned a week back, thus killing two birds with one stone, but that is deemed tactless.

Someone (who has a knack for this sort of thing) is searching the house for an appropriate gift (and a new hors d’oeuvre – here we go again!)

Some time this weekend I need to finish sewing up a shirt.

Key West is a month away.

I have a massage/PT appointment this weekend. I hope my stretches paid off viz. I am more flexible. Otherwise my fellow will be cross with me.

Netflix sent “Xanadu” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” – two movies I have never seen. How’s that for a combination?

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14 comments

January 15, 2010 at 9:09 PM

anne marie in philly

cuckoo’s nest – a classic

xanadu – a waste of time and film; finish your shirt instead

January 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM

Peter

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is bringing work home. 😉

“Xanadu” is music in the background while you sew your shirt.

January 16, 2010 at 12:50 AM

Raybeard

‘Cuckoo’ needs no reason to see it other than that one’s film-viewing life is incomplete without having done so. Very highly recommended.
‘Xanadu’ is very much a curiosity, some have even said a ‘stinker’, but in my books it has 3 things going for it – the presence of the gorgeous Olivia N-J., Gene Kelly (I think it was his final film) and the music of E.L.O.

January 16, 2010 at 5:15 AM

Larry Ohio

Enjoy the party tonight 🙂

January 16, 2010 at 5:30 AM

Dyl

Hope you have a good time later. The mind boggles as to what on earth you’re supposed to be taking. Fingers crossed Someone figures it out.

Re the movies, I’d concur pretty much with what already has been said. What did you make of them?

January 16, 2010 at 8:42 AM

D. Dave

“Xanadu” is a prime example of someone thinking they knew how to make a movie. I can take ‘terrible’, and I can take ‘wonderful’, but I cannot take ‘inept’. This was Kelly’s last appearance in a theatrical film release, though he did a bit more television. He was okay in this film, but it was an uphill battle. Netflix “Gene Kelly – Anatomy of a Dancer”, a documentary from PBS ‘American Masters’ series. I own copy, and watch it every so often to remind myself of how brilliant Gene Kelly was. And at risk of getting just a tad trashy here, he was one of the most gorgeous men who ever lived. That form, that grin, I melt.

January 16, 2010 at 12:39 PM

jason

Oh, those two films some how encapsulate my whole life.

January 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Chris (in Philly)

Wow. I remember going to the movies to see Xanadu with my Mom when I was 10. I even remember skating to the Xanadu song as a teenager.

I love “Cuckoo’s Nest”. Classic Jack Nicholson.

Enjoy your party

January 16, 2010 at 8:03 PM

javabear

I remember going to the movies with my Mom when I was 16 or 17 to see Cuckoo’s Nest. Freaky movie to watch with one’s mother.

Great minds think alike. I have Cuckoo’s Nest from Netflix sitting here on the table beside me, as I plan to watch it this evening. I haven’t seen it since that day in the theater all those years ago with my mother.

January 17, 2010 at 3:05 AM

Jockamo

Xanadu is a cult classic of which I am a member. Sometimes in life, you just have to pull the stick out of your ass and let go. Especially when depressed.

And if watching Gene Kelly in his dotage leads to his earlier film work, so much the better. Never was there a more beautiful and talented dance man.

The soundtrack is close to perfect.

January 17, 2010 at 6:50 AM

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