Weekend update

We went to see Encanto last night, the Pixar movie. It was very cute, we both liked it.

Rob would have gone to see West Side Story if I had wanted to, but I never have cared much for the old movie, and so I was just not enthusiastic about a new one. I like some of the music, but I don't know why, it's just never been a favorite. (I think I thought the whole Jets vs Sharks things was stupid, for one thing.)

I never have been a huge fan of Romeo & Juliet either, and that's basically the plot of WSS, so maybe it has something to do with that. Also the play was written before I was born and I think the movie came out in 1961, right? which is a year after I was born, so by the time I got old enough to pay attention it was old news and it was kind of one of those things parents talked about and kids were bored by.

(I looked and the new movie only made $10M, which is a huge flop by Spielberg standards. But it'll hang around til after Christmas and I bet it'll do better in the end. We might even get around to going eventually, who knows.)

We were supposed to go eat Chinese with my sister and my brother-in-law Saturday night, but she had her Covid booster Friday and she wasn't feeling well. It seems like everybody has one Covid shot that's like that, to some degree. So Rob & I went and had Tex-Mex instead, and I'm sure we'll all go get Chinese next week. (It's kind of weird getting used to the idea that they live here now and going out to eat with them is presumably not going to be a once-or-twice-a-year thing any more.)


So now here's my updated 2021 movie list, newest to oldest:
Encanto
My Neighbor Totoro (Ghiblifest)
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Eternals
Dune (twice)
Spirited Away (Ghiblifest)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (twice)
The Suicide Squad
The Green Knight
Black Widow
Army of the Dead
The Courier
Raya and the Last Dragon
Nomadland
Judas and the Black Messiah
Promising Young Woman
News of the World

...and Rob saw all of those plus these:
Antlers
Halloween Kills (twice)
Lamb
Malignant (twice)
Candyman
The Night House
Don't Breathe 2
Old
Escape Room 2
The Forever Purge
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
A Quiet Place 2
Spiral
Separation
In the Earth
The Unholy
Nobody
The Father

(I only started keeping track of Rob's movies a few years ago, but his list always entertains me, somehow.)

Soulmates

About Anne Rice: When we got married and merged our book collections, we each had matching paperback editions of Interview with the Vampire - the one pictured here. That kind of thing is when you know you've found your soul-mate. (Also? we gave one of them away, which I've always kind of regretted.) I actually never read anything else of hers, except some of the erotica, but Interview with the Vampire was world-changing, in its way. I even loved the movie, in its own separate (ultra-kitschy) way. Plus, y'know, young Brad Pitt. But that was later.

The only other overlap I remember from our book collections is that we both had incomplete collections of those Star Trek books that were "novelizations" of the various episodes of the original series. I think between us we have an almost-complete set of those (we were both missing the first one). We still have those although I doubt that either one of us has looked at them in years.

35 years later (we've been married for 35 years next spring, how is that possible) we're still soulmates about pretty much all this pop-culture stuff, with some notable exceptions (I don't share his love for horror movies being the most obvious one, but there are others - it works both ways). Even then I listen to him about horror movies and he listens to me babble on about various things he's not really into, as well.

We both love all the Marvel series that have been on Disney+ this year. (This time last year I was babbling on about the Mandalorian, and so far I haven't babbled about Hawkeye, etc., here, but that's probably coming. Be warned.)