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.)<\/p>\n
Last night I was feeling well enough to go see Must Love Dogs<\/a><\/cite> 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n The Partridge Family<\/cite> theme song<\/a> 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<\/cite>; the soundtrack of the preview is the song \"Seasons of Love<\/a>,\" 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<\/em> much. Sigh.<\/p>\n (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.)<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been teetering on the brink of a cold (probably the same one everyone else has had) for a little…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}