In The Brain ... Briefly

So I've seen a lot of movies and read a few books in the past month. I thought I'd do one super summary about it.

Barton Fink...had no idea who directed it when I started watching it ... was not surprised to learn that the Coen brothers were behind it.
Sweet Heart's Dance is a 1980s movie starring Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, Don Johnson and Elizabeth Perkins. It's about relationships and marriage in a small town. It could have been worse.
The Kiss is a memoir written by Kathryn Harrison. It reads a bit like a novel but is all fact. All fact about the author's incestuous (and adult) relationship with her father. This book is interesting in that this was an incestuous relationship that didn't start until Harrison was 18. In fact she had only seen/met her father twice before. I left feeling like there was still something missing in terms of explanation or emotional depth.
I liked when, in A Prairie Home Companion, John C. Reilly and Woody Harrelson tell inappropriate jokes like: Why do they call it PMS? ... Because Mad cow disease was taken.
The Island is a silly movie. The boyfriend doesn't think cloning human beings will ever become a reality. I think he's probably right, scientifically, but I still like thinking about the ethical and moral dilemmas.
Family Guy is always funny.
I'm enjoying this book. It's about a woman's childhood in southern Georgia. Hers was a childhood completely unlike my own: in the 1950s, evangelical extremes, junkyard as home, um, yeah, stuff like that. It's very interesting in terms of what she has to say about her family but also in terms of the land and eco-system she describes ... I've been down there, you see, and I think long leaf pines are very very pretty and calming.
I read The Turn of the Screw a while back ... I wasn't scared.
I'm also making my way through the second season of Scrubs and I still think it's funny.

That's the round up. Right now I'm watching a very tense football game between OSU and Michigan. My parents are somewhere in the crowds and I keep hoping to get a glimpse of them ... but there's 100,000 people there so I'm not holding my breath. Go Buckeyes!