three movies saturday:

• charlie and the chocolate factory - pretty damn funny and good. i've never read the book, but i'd say this film definitely improved on the old one, though of course i wouldn't dare speak ill of gene wilder or his take on wonka. i tend to enjoy tim burton films, appreciative of the weirdness as i am
• ed wood - another tim burton film, which sarah was seeing for the first time and apparently didn't enjoy so much--her take was "why make a bad movie about a guy who made bad movies?"--but i still loved it. the character of ed, however fictionalized he might be, is amazing, making such crap but enjoying the hell out of it and not caring what people think (hence burton's interest, for sure, and my own)
• the devil's rejects - now, i'm one who didn't care for house of 1000 corpses, finding it to be a shallow ripoff of texas chainsaw massacre but without originality or plot, but this sequel, while remaining just as shallow and barely managing much originality, plays numerous times better, probably just because here zombie focuses on the bad people, which seems to be what he was dying to do all along, the first film just an excuse to get to this one. as i've mentioned before, i like my horror films--not that this strictly is one, more bordering somewhere between a 70s style exploitation film and a crime spree/road picture (a la natural born killers or the first half of from dusk til dawn--to have graphic violence and gore if they're not going to bother with old school depth, so i actually liked this one

sunday, i tried to go see shopgirl, but a street fair thing screwed with parking and i ended up too late to bother, and wandered ikea in search of storage containers instead

and, i returned home early to clean the kitchen and mop the floors

for dinner, there was salmon, quite good. then, there was recording the simpsons, family guy and american dad, which i still haven't watched

and just after sarah's steeler game ended, i watched me some rome--a great episode, with great performances from brutus, veranus and pullo--that death by arena scene especially was a great mix of violence and emotion (especially since i wasn't sure how it worked, whether pullo got to go free if he survived or if attackers would just keep coming until he was dead). this is not going to end well, what with caesar's death coming and whatever the fallout from veranus' actions will be

then came grey's anatomy, tying together various plots about the same theme. a good episode, though i almost wish the husband hadn't showed up in the end for his wife's surgery. the show had done enough to cover both sides of the issue around her choice, so it didn't need to water down one of those sides, but all in all, it still worked

and i was feeling sick, and went straight to bed as soon after grey's anatomy as i could... throat's still bugging me a bit

and i should do some fiction writing today