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Hello, I’m back. I’m falling off the posting and returning comments regimen again. I’m accumulating a pile of unbaked thoughts that can’t seem to get out of the oven, so I’ll be finishing ‘em up before I attempt anything new. Crapalooza, I keep seeing the same faces pop up on MyBlogLog every day and maybe, I’m feeling a twinge of bad for not hollering back. It’s not as if I’m all tapped out of fruity blog mojo… It just feels like a prolonged death of a blog… and I’m suffocating from the persistent smell of burnt… raisins.

If you hit the YouTube play button, that was approximately 2 min. 20 sec. of your life you can’t get back. First, we will all pretend you actually saw it to the end and then I will explain from where those maudlin scenes came. That was a trailer for My Life Without Me (2003), a movie that poses the question, “What would you do if you knew you would die soon?” The drama stars Canadian actress and film director Sarah Polley as Ann and co-stars Canadian actor Scott Speedman as Ann’s couch potato husband, Don.

… and this is the part where I feebly explain that “300 Movie” in the post title has no relation to the real meaning of this entry. To briefly explain to the newbies and to those who don’t care to remember (including me & me & me), my c-r-a-z-y amigo Jude threw a gauntlet — slap “300 Movie” in the title and write about somethin’ else, but that somethin’ else must be linked to the film. Bonus points for cryptic lifelogging and six degrees of relativity. Did I mention lame? Sarah Polley was in a film called Beowulf & Grendel which starred Gerard Butler who, incidentally, was in 300. Scott Speedman, you might recall, was Ben Covington in Felicity, a TV series on air from 1998 - 2002. Perhaps you remember him as Michael Corvin (Hybrid Vampire Lycan Romeo C-List Actor) in the film Underworld and the sequel Underworld: Evolution. Tony Curran was Marcus Corvinus (First Vampire in Urgent Need of a Toothbrush and Comb After a Century of Slumbering) in the sequel. Full circle of relativity, do you recall this previous entry where I said that I saw Tony and Gerard in 2005? Damn you Jude, bonus points.

Back to My Life Without Me, a meditative film with merit, although it can come across as a “disease of the week” schlocky tearjerker to others. A lot depressing, too. Ann, 23 years old, lives a poor life with her two small daughters and her mostly unemployed husband in a cramped trailer in her mother’s backyard. Ann lacks higher education and works as a janitor. Her doctor tells her that she has uterine cancer and only two months to live. She compiles a list of 10 things to do before she dies, arranges her family life in order and has an affair with a lonely man she met in a laundrymat. She keeps her illness all hush hush by saying she’s just a vampire anemic. Making a man fall in love with her AND finding a new wife for her husband are on her to-do list. And vampiric circus clowns… OK, I made that up.

Despite some slow areas in the film, it was eh, OK and I quite enjoyed the film’s opening images. The first minute in the above trailer covers most of the opening scene where Ann is standing barefoot on grass, outside in the cold rain, reveling in her heightened poetic senses (or j/k possibly feverish pneumonia or tainted egg salad sandwich). The overly melodramatic music (which wasn’t in the film) in the trailer cheeses up the scene, too bad.

Yeah, this didn’t make much sense, but I was promised milk and cookies for an entry. Transparency and excellence in writing are so overrated.

Alrighty, link love to the Top 6 MyBlogLog repeat poppin’ fresh faces within the last 2 weeks (sorry, I didn’t check on a daily basis): Jun.anteola, Lei, JJ (formerly of messagesendingfailed.blogspot.com), Chase, Fendi and Culture Shiok! Oh, I was meme tagged by Ms. Reyna Elena, which reminded me that I still have to do the ones I got tagged for back in December up to now. Oops, my bad. So memes, umm coming up, maybe next week. Plus 300 Movie, Part 4 and other crap and schtuff.

Now, I’m off to blog hop on the Yellow Blog Road, return comments and tackle a pile of unread e-mails. Whoah, that was another long ass post.

300 Movie, Part 1: Sparta-ghetti with Hearty Tomato Sauce
300 Movie, Part 2: I Wanted Gerard Butler but Got Tony Curran… Eh Who?

Adieu,

Massa P