Looking out my apartment window at night.

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In response to Brian - yes, I do need to get some blinds, but I’m in no hurry.  I tend to wake up before sunrise anyway (even on weekends) and the lack of blinds is scratching an exhibitionist itch for the time being.

Since I’m posting anyway, I’ll mention that I seem to be stuck in a “movie slump” of sorts.  What I mean by that is, though I haven’t disliked the movies I’ve seen recently, I’ve found that after watching them I’ve come away somewhat dissatisfied.

It started with “No Country for Old Men”.  I liked it well enough and I thought Javier Bardem was great (loved his cattle killer), but it was one of those situations where I’d heard so much about the movie in advance that it didn’t live up to expectations.

Movies that I’ve watched in the past few days that fall into the dissatisfaction category are “Sweeney Todd”, “Enchanted”, “Dan in Real Life”, “The Assassination of Jesse James”, and “The Darjeeling Limited” (just finished watching the last one).  I plan to watch “Gone Baby Gone” tomorrow night and I hope it sets things back on track.

Anyone have any movies from the past year or two that you’d like to recommend?

Since I’m asking, I guess I’ll throw one out there.  If you haven’t seen it (and if you live in Korea, you may not have), check out “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”, with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer.  I actually watched it over a year ago but it’s one of those movies I can watch three or four times.  It’s a very clever black comedy.  Oh, and Michelle Monaghan gets nekkid.