Films, Events, Nonevents, and Buggin'

I watched Iraq in Fragments on Wednesday. It's a non-narrated documentary in three parts, following three Iraqis in present day. The saddest was definitely the first one, a child who doesn't go to school, is manipulated by his boss (he's 8), his father was a vocal Saddam dissenter and was jailed and never seen again...his life is so full of despair. However, when the DVD started skipping in the final fifteen minutes I didn't bother fixing it. I Just stopped watching. I knew it was going to show more depressing images and more despair, so eh. I had been sitting on this film for a few weeks. I'm glad I watched it, but it also didn't tell me anything new.

I'm really hoping Tierische Liebe (Animal Love) arrives today like netflix says it will. Graham gave me the heads up on a brief Herzog interview, where he says that you can't sit through this movie without some brandy first as it is the most dark look into hell possible (paraphrased). Awesome! When I read the description its about people who really really love their pets. We'll see how that turns out.

Last night my aunt and uncle from San Francisco were in town. They took me to dinner and then to dessert, and I tried my hardest to impress them with my neighborhood. I felt like I was really overcompensating ("See guys? Chicago ain't all that bad!"). They didn't seem impressed with my apartment (who would), but they did like my neighborhood and the restaurants we went to. It was nice to see them. Afterwards, they dropped me off at Soup's house where we did a mini-wine tasting, complete with a wine that "tastes like pickles." I stayed up too late, came home and passed out.

Not sure whats on tap for today, but hopefully it'll include mexican food, relaxation, White Sox on tv, and being lazy.

Sunday I'll have to go to Home Depot or Target. Those really weird bugs from last summer have returned. Not the gnats, but those ones that sort of look like lightning bugs but without the light. They also look sort of like wild rice on legs. They appear really crispy but I don't think they are. No matter, I hate them anyway (been killing about 6 a day) and want them gone.