Watched my favorite movie ever with Jordan and Justin this morning- Tetro.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZ8edKAWDs&feature=related
The acting, cinematography, story, music... Shit, everything. I love love love that movie. Nothing about it is intended to be commercially viable; it would never have been a blockbuster- it's just art. Beautiful beautiful art.
Work was great today, and here is an enumerated list of why:
1. Jason was wearing a shirt with a cute, chubby little pony with side bangs. Said cute, chubby little pony with side bangs had gotten his little leg caught in a bucket. The shirt read: Nobody's Perfect. We decided it was an excellent shirt, since it was both cute AND true.
2. NEW BOOKS. As anyone who works in a library knows, new books are a thing to be excited about. Especially in the children's area, where new books means PUTTING STICKERS ON THE NEW BOOKS. This is my favorite thing, so my boss kindly left the stickering to me this evening. Stickering, as everyone knows, requires one to at least peruse said book before determining what sticker to put on. This resulted in my finding the following items:
2(a): Cool Crafts With Old Jeans: a nifty arts and crafts book showing how to make bags, jewelry, belts, and (my favorite) place mats with old jeans. It also includes a little note on why thrift stores are awesome.
2(b): Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates: Cute book about some bunny pirates and how they fight off some chicken pirates.
2(c): The Heart and the Bottle: really beautiful little book about a girl who puts her heart in a bottle to protect it after she loses someone she loved. However, with her heart in a bottle, she could not appreciate all the other things in life that she had loved when that person was still around. The illustrations are simple, as is the language for the most part, but as lovely as the message. The book focuses on the importance of allowing yourself to feel pain, because, if you can feel pain, you can also feel wonder. And if you can't feel pain or wonder, then what's the point of living? Some people may think that children are too young or inexperienced to understand a message like that, but I disagree. Children lose things and people, too, but so much of children's entertainment is focused on ignoring that fact and making everything happy and... sterile. Not that it should be focused on telling them how horrible life is (because that's just not true), or that there should be no book/show/movie that has no purpose but to make kids laugh, but I think there should be more books like this one. Books that acknowledge that just because someone is young or has less "life experience" or whatever doesn't make one's feelings or struggles any less relevant.
2(d): A chapter book entitled Big Nate, with this priceless gem on the back cover: "But life doesn't always go your way just because you're awesome." True that, children's book author. True. That.
And now, back to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!