To Do, Sunday July 4th

1. Watch Wimbledon Men's final
2. mow lawn
3. finish fence section
4. bake cookies if Roddick loses
5. prepare fruit salad for Rourk's picnic
6. Clean workshop

Looking for DVDs

With my wife doing some work tonight I decided to rent a movie. I went to Movie.com and went through every recently released movie. Here is the list I came up with:

Blow-up - Michelangelo Antonioni
Dirty Pretty Things - Stephen Frears
In This World - Michael Winterbottom

Dirty Pretty things was checked-out and I chickened-out when I looked at the actual DVD case for In This World: it looked too intense.

Going to the video store is such a complicated calculus. I am always balancing my current mood with the tone of the available movies. By tone I mean pictures on the cases and 5-word review blurbs on the back of the case. It is rare when I find a perfect match.

I ended up in the foreign film section and found Russian Ark in the Russian section and SLC Punk in the independent section. (For some reason, Blow-Up was not in the Italian section).