killing time in the east...

"oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful." these are lines from a christmas carol made popular some decades back by frank sinatra if i'm not mistaken. although there is no fire inside, it is raining cats and dogs outside at the moment. there must be some typhoon somewhere to generate these rains since this is only the last week of april. it also rained last monday and as far as i know, the rains shouldn't start yet until the end of may or first week of june at the latest. anyway, i watched "the jacket" last night with a friend and the movie is kinda crappy. it's about a guy who had a near death experience during the first gulf war. he came home with amnesia and was wrongly implicated in the killing of a cop. since he escaped the charges on an insanity plea, he is thrown in an asylum for the mentally deranged. the doctor in charge, although well meaning, subjects him to a new and radical treatment where he is strapped inside some sort of straight jacket and thrown into a morgue-like drawer and kept there for hours. the treatment allows him to travel in the future and there he foresees the time and date of his death. the rest is just plain shitty and i advise you not to watch it if you don't want to see your hard earned bucks go down the drain. if i had known that it was that crappy, we wouldn't have gone to see it. we should have just watched "guess who" instead or "the wedding date." not surprisingly the movie house was three fouths empty. whew.. what a waste of time and money.