Watching a Little Taste of Milk

So a pretty busy weekend and a bunch of stuff I want to share. The first would be my experience with Apple Care. So my power adapter finally died after being on the fritz for a while. After already replacing one from Best Buy, I remembered I had Apple Care so I called them up and they said they would replace it, I just had to take it "to any place that sells apples". So even after checking if Best Buy was ok, I tried at Best Buy to find out it had to be an Apple Store. Friday after work (since I had a tour down in Fishkill) I went over to the Store in Danbury. The process was incredibly easy and simple and I have to say that my experience with Apple Care is good, but running over to Danbury is a pain and the whole idea of my power adapter failing is stupid.

Friday night, Joe was having a wine tasting party at his apartment. I enthusiastically went since I've been trying to get more into wine and this was a great opportunity to try a bunch of stuff, especially wines from around the world. I had an absolute blast at the party. I tried a bunch of new stuff, something like 11 new wines. The theme was new world vs old world. For the most part, I feel I liked the new world stuff better. I enjoyed the Chardonnay he had, preferring the buttery California one. I tried three sauvignon blanc wines. All three were spectacular and I feel this could be my new favorite variety. The red wines I was disappointed with, but still found some I liked, like a Cali Petit Sarah and a Pinot from France. I had a great time and just had a wonderful evening.

On Saturday, besides for getting a few things done, I went and saw a matinee of Watchmen. Now, never reading the book and coming in blind, I thought this was an excellent comic book movie but have nothing to compare it to in terms of source material (but here it stayed pretty accurate). It is clearly a comic book superhero movie and it is unapologetic in that. This doesn't try like some of the other movies to be more mainstream, which may explain the huge drop in sales this weekend. The beginning part of the movie felt difficult for me to adjust into this alternate world where vigilantes are everywhere. This seriously detracted me for quite a while, luckily being a long movie allowed me to get past this and still have a lot to watch. The character drama was pretty good and I felt it was a good ride of a superhero movie. The real kicker at the end, really hit home and I was stunned and awed. To imagine that type of twist and resolution in a huge overarching comic book series that was being released during the cold war is incredible. There were many parts of the movie that I thought could have been explained better or just have anything mentioned about them (the villain's tiger thing). The amount of gratuitous nudity in the movie was a little over the top, luckily it didn't detract too much. I'm guessing this was all straight out of the books being originally directed towards men audiences. The clip at the top I now find pretty funny even if I don't get all of the jokes in there. A great movie that is unapologetic in what it is.

Tonight I watched Sean Penn's Milk. This was another amazing movie. Sean Penn did an amazing job and I think deserved the Oscar. All of the acting was great and the writing was spectacular. Even though this is a rather slow moving movie, I was hooked and was thoroughly entertained watching and wondering what was going to happen next. By the end of the movie, I was somewhat actually moved to tears. It was a touching ending and it is just sad as to how these people are treated even now, thirty years later. How all Americans don't have the same rights and the same freedoms. It was a wonderful movie that was done with great taste and with an extraordinary message.

Oh yeah, and lots of blue penis.