The cold catches up
I've been teetering on the brink of a cold (probably the same one everyone else has had) for a little over a week now. This morning, alas, its potential was realized. (Can one reify a cold? I'm never quite sure how to use that word.)
Last night I was feeling well enough to go see Must Love Dogs with Stephanie. I wasn't expecting much, but the movie turned out to be fun and often funny and even a little charming, and Diane Lane and John Cusack are both attractive, and they have a decent amount of chemistry together. The movie's not brilliant, and it's quite predictable, and it seems to me to try a little too hard to be a Nora Ephron script (Stephanie said it was more like a Nora Roberts story); but it's worth seeing if you like that sort of thing, as I do.
The Partridge Family theme song shows up during the movie, and it stuck in my head for much of the rest of the evening. But at some point before going to bed, I remembered that we'd seen a preview of the upcoming movie of Rent; the soundtrack of the preview is the song "Seasons of Love," which reminded me that I'd been meaning to decide if I wanted to buy the Broadway cast recording album, so I went and poked around on the iTunes Music Store. Which doesn't sell the cast recording album, but I did listen to their snippet of the movie-soundtrack version of the song, and it stuck in my head. So for a while before I went to sleep, and each time I woke up during the night, and when I finally woke up in the morning, the only bit of the song that I know was running through my head on constant loop. I do like the song, but I don't like it that much. Sigh.
(Btw, if you want to hear the whole song without buying it, you can view the movie preview online, though I suspect a couple of the visual sequences shown are fairly big spoilers. . . . I still haven't heard the whole album, nor seen the show; I'm tentatively looking forward to the movie.)
Anyway. So I woke up sick (not because of the song), and so I decided not to accompany Stephanie on her trek to Monterey today. Instead I'm sitting at home, reading subs, venturing out into the sunshine occasionally, relaxing a little.
I've got huge numbers of items and links to post, but I think I'd better go try to get some more magazine work done before I embark on that project, which probably means I won't get to posting those items for another couple days.
