July 21, 2005

Taking a Personal Day

Yesterday I decided I needed a personal day. The shoulders were sitting in the Chicago winter position above my ears, naturally. AKA, the stress level is a little too high for my likings. So, enough! I took the day to camp out on my couch and watch movies. The beauty of being a designer is that my personal days are useful for working too. Distract myself long enough and I'll find the answer to a problem or feel a little more creative. Anyway, I thought I'd start a blog with the LMNtals about movies.

Yesterday I watched Shaun of the Dead, the Hours, and Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. Overall it was a great movie day. Shaun of the Dead was absolutely genius! As a friend said, "If you don't laugh outloud at least once in that movie, something is wrong with you." I agree. It's a romantic comedy with zombies, guts, and a cricket paddle. How can you go wrong?

Next was Series of Unfortunate Events. Which was a great story of three amazing children and . . . their . . . um, yeah, series of unfortunate events. The casting of the kids were great, the sets were very Tim Burton & Edward Gorey, but I'd have to say I wasn't a big fan of Jim Carey. I can say I expected him to ruin the movie, and he didn't. It made for a nice segue into the Hours, as strange as that sounds.

the Hours is the beautiful reality between three women in three different eras, one of which is Virgina Wolfe played by a hypnotic Nicole Kidman. The writing was amazing and the cinematography was haunting.

It was a really nice day away from the boring ins and outs of my office. Hey gang, two questions you can go off from here with. One, what do you do to distract yourself from stress? Two, what was the last great movie you saw?

Yeah?

Posted by Anni at 08:05 PM

July 15, 2005

"Let's hear it for the boy!"

Since Barry is such a modest chap, I'm going to start this entry and I know Jenny will continue you it . . . On Barry's t-shirts he's selling off his personal site, www.barrysfarm.com. Mind you, this has no connection to LMNtal, it just gives you a chance to see further into the genius of Barry Abrams.

We were sitting around the table at Esquire last night and Jenny said she went to check out Barry's site where she discovered the shirts. She then went on to describe how cute they were one by one and why. This is where I'm going to let Jenny take over and hope that Barry is blushing as he reads this right now. Look, they're cool. And you should know about it!
heart, anni

Posted by Anni at 07:18 PM