a great movie

"Lost in Translation"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/

I rented it and saw it twice last week. The picture was amazing, it really made me think about a lot of things.

It's one of those ambient movies where the pacing is slow and you have to let the atmosphere tell the story. Also there aren't many characters aside from the leads but Japan itself is a character and serves as a metaphor for alientation and disconnected feelings.

I'm going to order the soundtrack online. I tried to find it at Target, attempted to download it from Itunes but no go. I don't even know of a dedicated record store in the Indianapolis area.
I could go to Barnes and Noble but I never have much luck finding stuff there.

I keep on listening to the song "Sometimes" from the group "My Bloody Valentine" that is from the movie.

I'm back from my trip in Europe and I tried to post earlier this week but it the blogger site timed out and it never got up there

it's been a while

I was in Europe for two weeks with my wife and mother.

We were in Paris, the Swiss Alps and visited my relatives in Switzerland.

I am now back on the job. It wasn't till I got back here that I realized how sedentary this job is.

One sits in the cube and sits and sits.... There is an occasional meeting to attend but there are some weeks when even that doesn't occur. At lunch there's always the opportunity to get out of the cubicle into your car and head to the nearest fast food drive in for a nutritious meal.

Except for the trip from Paris to Basel, we didn't take any lengthy train trips. Perhaps one day we will take the Glacier Express. I think that train runs from Zermatt to Saint Moritz.