Without a doubt one of the strangest, coolist, improbable movies of the new millenium. Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman), a very experienced born killer, annihilates everyone in her path to get back at Bill (David Carradine) who as he says…overreacts… to finding she’s going to marry someone else. They have unfinished business and she preforms the ‘five point palm exploding heart’ technique. The music is way cool. Carradine adjusts his jacket, turns and walks five feet and collaspes. Uma drives away in her Robin Egg Blue Carma Gia. Moral of the story…don’t mess with a pregnant woman who wants to change her way of life, especially if she’s a train assassin. Thank god I was never pregnant or a trained assassin…but I’d certainly like to change my life.
Today I shampooed the rugs. What a useless, sweaty, shitty way to use up a Sunday. They do look better and maybe the stink has been removed from the house. Everyday for the next month I am going to spend one to two hours cleaning something because it MUST be done. I wish mom had some energy to do something besides knit…like clean her closet… Tomorrow I’m going to go purchase some already grown flowers and put them in the area I prepared last weekend. Most of the flowers I tried to grow, died. So much for a green thumb.
I just finished a book called The Wild Trees. It’s about the giant redwoods in California that grow to just short of 400 feet. Some of them are believed to be over two thousand years old. In 1918 a group of wealthy people ( and some concerned citizens) started purchasing tracks of land to save these trees..even so over 96 percent of these beautiful trees were harvested by logging companies (the almighty buck rules, you know). Before I die I will go see these trees though I’m way to old to climb them now. I want to see a fairy ring which is a group of trees growing from the left trunk of a downed tree. The new trunks are clones of the original tree and from what I gather from this book they are a sight to behold. It’s not a very well constructed book from my point of view..but you catch excitement from reading it.
My next reading assignment is Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. On and off I’m reading the God Delusion, too, by Richard Dawkins.
Well, I haven’t gotten any comments from any of my blogs and I can only assume all my friends are dead or dying or simply not computer savvy. Which one are you?
Posted on May 27th, 2007 by MJ
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