Last night at our house on the hill, after dinner and the news, we removed ourselves to the living room to watch a Korean movie (one of my selections from Netflix), Oldboys. Within the first few minutes of the movie, Diane found herself covering her eyes and telling me to let her know when it was safe to look again - she was closing her eyes to some very graphic and fairly disgusting scenes, like the main guy asking for something live to eat - the waitress finds him a small octopus like critter which he immediately starts eating, head first. Yuk! Not nice! After two or three of these eye aversion maneuvers by Diane, she had had enough and walked out. I stuck with it and it turned out to be a very good movie - I gave it a rating of 4. About revenge.
Meanwhile, March Madness continued with Memphis State winning yet again. But it was the Ohio State and Tennessee game which was on when the movie ended. OSU 10, Tenn 9. I went back to the den and spent a few minutes talking with Diane about this and that, came back to find the score Tenn 30, OSU 18. My oh my... What is going on here!? The lead grew to as much as 20 before the half. The big guy for Ohio State, Greg Oden, spent more of the game sitting on the bench than he did running back and forth on the floor - Tenn did a good job of getting him in foul trouble - btw, what's with all of a sudden the refs are calling everything when last week they let the boys play? The second half was a different story: the Buckeyes crawled (the AP is calling it a "furious rally") all the way back and eventually won the ball game when the Big GO swatted away the almost-a-lay-in, for-sure-good-for-two-points-and-the-win shot by Tennessee's Ramar Smith as time ran out on the Volunteers. It was good one. Guess what? So far we have two number ones and two number twos advancing. Selection committee gets an A, so far anyway.
Better get myself to the golf course. Eric and Diane are over there now. Looks like we have rain coming in this afternoon.
Friday, March 23, 2007
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What Mike didn't describe to you in the movie "Old Boy" (besides eating the live octopus, ugh) was the guy being covered with rapidly crawling ants, the first of which emerged from beneath his skin. It was no help that we knew he was hallucinating! Mike told me that near the end of the movie, the guy cut off his own tongue. Boy, am I glad I missed that! Totally awful movie. Just shows you how people's idea of entertainment differs.
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