Never has a cover more accurately captured the spirit of a movie than this one...or at least that how's it seems to me. The Postman Always Rings Twice (the 1981 remake) has some of the strangest, most unromantic sex scenes I've ever witnessed in a film.

Certainly the acting is first-rate. You can't get much better than Jessica Lange (always, always terrific in whatever role she takes on!) and Jack Nicholson (never one to suffer fools, but surprisingly sensitive, at times, in The Postman.)

Nicholson and Lange play two people savagely in love. One minute it seems they want to kill each other, the next they can't bear to be apart. I didn't particularly care for Postman; it made me very uneasy and yet, oddly, there were times I wanted to laugh when the scene wasn't supposed to be funny.

Even so, The Postman Always Rings Twice satisfied a curiosity I'd long had...since it first appeared in the early 80s and it always seemed I was too young to be allowed to watch it. For some reason, when I was eleven, I had the idea it was a horror flick.

In some sense, I guess it is!

Great dialogue, smart writing, oddly funny moments and a tense and fast-moving pace make this hard-to-put-down. Richard Price is a gifted author who can make a novel both literary and compelling. The story unfolds in your mind as vividly and breathlessly as any movie ever could.

Sometimes I find myself thinking of someone I used to know and wonder how she's doing. In this age of Google searches and Facebook stalking, it's hard to imagine you can't find someone from your past. But sometimes people just can't be found...

"You Could Be Happy" is a beautifully sweet and sad song by Snow Patrol that captures the spirit of wishing someone well, even though things didn't end well when you last saw each other. The first time I ever heard the track off their Eyes Open album I was struck by how universal it is to wonder about someone you once cared for so much.

The lyrics go like this:


You could be happy and I won't know
But you weren't happy the day I watched you go
And all the things that I wished I had not said
Are played in loops 'till it's madness in my head

Is it too late to remind you how we were
But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur

Most of what I remember makes me sure
I should have stopped you from walking out the door

You could be happy, I hope you are
You made me happier than I'd been by far

Somehow everything I own smells of you
And for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do

More than anything I want to see you, girl
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world


I know in my heart I will never ever see this person again...and I have no clue how she is doing these days, but I like to imagine that she is happy and well.

Well, I just lost 4.99 on a horrible, horrible movie, definitely the worst installment in the Resident Evil series (the first three of which I actually liked, but also watched while I had a really bad cold and was doped up on Nyquil).

I had MUCH more fun reading this after I went online to see if I was the only one who wanted her money back.

The ending definitely leaves you with the impression Afterlife is not the end...and that is probably not a good thing! Somehow, though, I imagine I will watch that installment as well...out of some morbid sense of curiousity or maybe just the hope that the fifth one will be better.

Today was sunny and well into the sixties, the kind of weather that teases and torments when you have to work inside all day. But I had off so I drove to the BWI trail in Anne Arundel County and watched the planes land and take off. With money tight these days, I don't travel that much so I like to go to the park/trail and imagine all the exciting places people are going to or have been.

I like to people watch a lot, but obviously it's impossible to see those people on the planes. That's where having a vivid imagination comes in handy!:)