February 23, 2008

• Kimchi, Old Men & Dreadlocks

  David & Hyun Ju were nice enough to make me a delicious Korean rice cake and kimchi potsticker dinner tonight. 

  

  

  

  

  
  Fine dining at the Hotel Careyfornia

  After that, we went to see No Country For Old Men.  Not much to say about that movie that hasn’t already been said.  “Feel good picture of the year”?  LOL, not quite, but the Coen Brothers are great filmmakers, and we all really enjoyed the movie. 
  

  No, But We Saw the Movie (SPOILER ALERT!)
  

  by Nora Ephron

  November 26, 2007

  When
  they got home that night, she went to get the book. She’d ordered it
  earlier in the week and meant to read it before they went to the movie,
  but it was a hard week and things got away from her. This was happening
  more and more.

  Maybe if we look in the book we’ll be able to figure it out, she said.

  Maybe we’ll find out what happened at the motel, he said. Why did it skip forward like that?

  He said it’s the same in the book.

  Who said?

  I told you who. The guy I was standing with while I was waiting for
  you to come out of the men’s room. He read the book and he said it’s
  the same deal exactly. The sheriff pulls up and everybody’s dead. You
  never see the scene where they all get shot. Maybe it’s because Javier
  didnt kill them.

  Who’s Javier?

  Javier Bardem. The serial killer.

  I thought it was Benicio Del Toro.

  Well it wasnt. The guy outside the men’s room said there’s a scene
  in the book that’s not in the movie. He said Javier goes to see a total
  stranger in some office, who’s never been mentioned earlier. He gives
  him the satchel of money and he says, Here’s your money back, now maybe
  you’ll hire me to do things like this in the future.

  Why did they leave that out?

  How do I know? Write a letter to the Coen brothers.

  She opened the book and started reading from the end.

  He does this weird thing with contractions, she said. He uses
  apostrophes for words like that’s and it’s but he doesnt use them for
  dont and wasnt and wont. He doesnt use quotation marks, either.

  Who?

  Cormac McCarthy.

  How am I supposed to know what you’re talking about with all these pronouns? he said.

  He went to get ready for bed.

  I cant believe you didnt know Josh Brolin died, she said.

  Well I didnt.

  He was lying there in the parking lot.

  I didnt see him lying in the parking lot.

  Well I didnt see him either, but then his wife turned up and Tommy Lee Jones looked sad, so you knew he was dead.

  I thought he looked sad because the mother was dead.

  The mother? The mother doesnt die till later.

  I thought it was the mother in the swimming pool.

  How could you think it was the mother? It was the girl with the beer
  in the swimming pool. She was wearing a bikini. The mother was about a
  hundred years old. What would the mother be doing wearing a bikini? The
  mother dies of cancer. Jesus.

  What happened to the satchel of money?

  He gives it to a total stranger. I told you.

  But in the movie what happens to the money?

  She wondered if they’d ever know. Maybe the answers were buried in
  the caliche, along with some character who had figured in a story
  toward the end of the movie. She hadn’t been able to follow the story
  about the character who was buried in the caliche because she was busy
  trying to puzzle out what happened to the satchel of money, but the
  word caliche stuck in her head. It was pronounced ka-lee-chee. Since
  they lived in New York City and were not about to go dig a hole in
  Central Park, it didnt seem like a particularly useful word, but you
  never know.

  He got into bed.

  I cant believe you didnt know Josh Brolin died, she said. Who did you think was lying on that slab in the morgue?

  The mother, he said.

  The mother? she said. The mother?

  He was asleep.

  We came home and watched the Idol results show.  I still laugh every time I see Danny Noriega’s facial expressions for some reason.  He reminds me a lot of Daniel Kueblboeck from the German version of Idol who went on to quite a career for a while.  Looks like we have our new Sanjaya.  I think Danny can sing though, but I’m tone deaf, so what do I know.  LOL

   

   

  

  By the way, judging from iTunes popularity, it looks like the dreadlocks boy is the favorite so far. 

  

  

  Tomorrow will be weather dependent.  Hyun Ju’s not feeling well, so we may lay low.  Happy Oscar weekend everyone!

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