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My new favorite animal is the wereswan. I have decided this based on Aronofsky's comments about Black Swan being a story of transformation.

Yesterday I ordered sushi delivery - it was okay, took too long to get here and was too expensive for something that didn't wow me. I have yet to have any dining experience connected to the Domain that pleased me really.

We watched Repo Men last night. You know, the creepy organ repo guys in the weird, dystopian future. It made me sad. A couple days earlier we watched Scott Pilgrim and I was distinctly underwhelmed. The visuals, the aesthetic of the movie, the music - those parts were pretty fun and delightful. But I couldn't find any reason to care about the characters. I felt bad for Knives and sort of hated almost everyone else. Maybe if I had read the books first. But I just could not care about Scott or Ramona, which was weird. I love Michael Cera so i felt confused by my inability to really connect with this movie.

Today I am feeling a bit better. Less pained and more sore. It is still almost impossible to bend from the waist.

I am 90% sure I wrapped the books I meant to be reading in one of Mike's Christmas presents. Damn it!

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I'm about to see Black Swan. Wereswan!

We're going to see Black Swan tomorrow. I can't wait.

I have not read the Scott Pilgrim books either. I didn't like many of the characters, but I think that's part of the point. Scott is supposed to be a jerk and I think Ramona is supposed to be shallow. In fact, the only character I did like was Jenny?/the angry girl with glasses and maybe the drummer. I did like the movie, I only saw it once in the theater, but the video game tropes were enough to make it for me.

Sometimes I'm amused by how divergent our interests are.

I've deliberately avoided Scott Pilgrim because I want to punch Michael Cera in the face repeatedly. I'm so over him as a character. George Michael Bluth = thumbs up. George Michael Bluth versions 2.0-whatever number we're on now = lame.

I watched Scott Pilgrim a couple of days ago and had a similar response. Fun film, but little substance. Scott is pretty unlikable, his relationship with Ramona makes no sense, and Knives is the only sympathetic person really.

I felt the same way about Scott Pilgrim. I think it was one of those cases where the movie tries to summarize the book so much that the point of the story gets lost. I felt similarly watching one of the later Harry Potter films.

I still need to see Black Swan. Grr on Shannon for seeing it without me already! (I'm dragging her with me anyway.)