more knitting & such

The rain is still here, drowning and flooding southern california with a vengeance. I'm enjoying the rain, but it is absofuckinglutely terrifying to drive the freeways in it. And not because I'm afraid of the rain- no it's because my car scares me. It needs a service, the tires are bald and the brakes are almost shot. I drove to Glendale yesterday going about 50-55mph, which is not that slow, but these fucking 18 wheelers and SUVs were speeding past me going like 70-80 and I thought I was going to die. The water spray from the wheels of the 18wheelers was drowning my tires and causing my car to hydroplane. So. fucking. scary!

I hate LA drivers! They either go 30mph or 85 in the rain. It's stupid, just drive cautiously so you don't endanger anyones' life and we're all good. But no, it's always an extreme. UGH.

Finally started the cabled afghan blanket for mi madre. It's going to take a really long time to finish, but at least I've begun it. I need some DPN but every time I go to the Michaels' craft stores in Glendale and Pasadena, they don't have the size I need. It's really frustrating.

Good tv FINALLY. Top Gear 13 on BBCAmerica next monday, and then a week later, the Lost final season! huzzah! Richard Hammond, Smoke Monsters and Lamborghinis oh my!


signing off.
kate.

cloverfield!

omg! i saw the movie "Cloverfield" last night and.... okay it scared the CRAP out of me. i felt so awkward afterwards- like this strange sense of anxiety that i wasn't sure of why I had it; like something was always lurking just around the corner of my perception or something. The movie was really good though. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen. The way it was filmed, the connection you have to the characters in the personal sort of way that the movie was filmed- that's what gave it the edge. That's what made it scary. Also, it really didn't have a "proper" end. it just sort of stopped and the credits came on. Creepy as fuck. There has to be a tie-in between this movie and the tv show Lost since both of them are produced/created by JJ Abrams and there's been all this weird viral marketing with Lost and they've been shoving cloverfield clips into the fake oceanic airlines commercials and all that. It probably didn't help my anxiety that I discussed the movie and everything surrounding it with my friend on the phone for like an hour once I got back to my apartment. I didn't go to bed until almost one in the morning just because I was so creeped out that I had to watch a dvd of Whose Line Is It Anyway for like 45 minutes. It also didn't help that I was alone in the apartment and well.... some strange things that cannot be accounted for happen in this apartment. I don't need to say anything else about that, nor do I want to.

So please do yourself a favor and watch Cloverfield. Keep an open mind and don't be a douche about it once you've seen it. Allow yourself to get into it. Don't just sit there passive laughing it off as some dumb movie. It achieved what I hoped it would achieved, and what I think JJ Abrams wanted to do.

.kate.

ps: the monster is fugly.