I can't decide if it's a sign of stupidity or yearning that so many people are actually considering the possibility that the mystery woman (or man in drag, as some have suggested) in the now-infamous 'Charlie Chaplin time travel video' may be from the future talking on a cellphone in 1928.

You might already have seen the video or heard all the jokes about cell phone reception and funky man shoes, but seriously...while I most definitely don't think it's time travel I do find the clip pretty creepy.

...was it doctored before it was added to the extras on Chaplin's The Circus?...is it just a hearing aid (well, then, why is she so clearly talking into the device and using the hand gestures and body language of someone on a mobile?)...is the man ahead of her (see video) her husband with whom she's just had an argument and she's still talking to him as he walks fast and far away?

There are so many plausible theories but what truly is hard to explain is the eerie way she appears to be looking straight into the camera while still talking to someone else...the whole thing is bizarre, but definitely has a rational explanation....has to have a rational explanation. I'm a huge sci-fi/time travel fan myself, but just think someone from the future (assuming t.t. were possible!!) would have better things to do than show  up at a movie premiere...

Besides he/she would be violating the "stay low key" and "you can't take modern things back in time with you" rules that run rampant through much of sci-fi!:)

Unlike A Perfect Getaway (Theatrical/Unrated Director's Cut) (which totally took my surprise with its semi-awesomeness), Legion landed in my lap last night with a big bad boring thud. A film with seemingly illustrious plans of Biblical proportions, the flick instead reminded me of nothing more than a zombie film (and a bad one at that!) hiding in disguise.

For goodness sakes the CW show Supernatural handled this very same theme during the fifth season with much better and far more provocative results. The best  (and most silly!) thing about Legion is (as with a lot of films, lately) already available in the trailer...yeah, I'm talking about that sweet-looking elderly woman who does the Spiderman walk across the ceiling of a run-down diner.

Other than that, I can't really find anything remarkable about the film, though Paul Bettany (as the angel Michael) is as good as always with his acting. Someone, however, needs to tell Kevin Durand (as "Gabriel") that whispering morosely throughout a film doesn't translate into an Academy Award.

....so surprised at how much I liked "A Perfect Getaway"...of course, I had low expectations and it was very late at night when I saw it, but still...if you're looking for a pretty good thriller (with lots of gorgeous scenery and some great action scenes) you could do a whole lot worse!:) I would love to tell you more about it, but the things that I really liked (or found a bit "off the map" and less conventional than other thrillers) would give some of it away.

Against my better judgment I watched Saw VI today and while I certainly see the sense in the writers using the health insurance industry as fair game for the wrath of Jigsaw I still find the franchise's internal sense of moral philosophy very troubling and (with the sixth installment) very ironic...if Jigsaw (played by Tobin Bell) wants to judge the employer (and his employees) of a major health insurance company so savagely for making harsh decisions regarding people's health and whether their cases are worthy or not, isn't he sort of a hyprocrite?

Jigsaw's kind of the same way in dispensing his lethal medicine...setting up elaborate and unbelievably disgusting and gory ways for people (he thinks deserve to) die. He has, in previous installments and in this one, also passed judgment calls on people who abuse their bodies and their health (i.e. people who do drugs or smoke). While I think the original Saw (nasty and gratuituous death scenes aside!) had potential to be food for thought and a great conversation starter, I find the rest to just be one exercise after another in "how far can we go?"

..."nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"...


Kate Moss got into so much trouble for saying this a while back. It may not be politically correct or even right, but sometimes I fervently believe it's true. The few times in my life I've been able to abstain from food or cut back for a little bit, it's almost felt like being free from sin...and the self-esteem, the knowledge that you can conquer something so primitive as hunger feels like a revelation.

There is no easy way to diet or else losing weight would be a breeze, but I do find that this guy is a huge culprit in keeping me from sticking to my diet at times:


...well not this tv, in particular, but the combination of eating and tv at dinner time. I found once I stopped associating food with watching my favorite shows and started forcing myself to watch tv without having munchies on hand I lost more weight.

When I was in my 20s I could eat almost anything I wanted and stay at a reasonably respectable weight, but now in my early 40s I have to cut back more than half my food intake and exercise twice as hard. There's really no other choice...because the fear of getting fat (and knowing it could easily happen with each passing year) is just too overwhelming....as is the need to put all of your happiness into something that is so fleeting and but a taste on your lips.