Wool 100%

I wonder what made Ms. Geranium think that watching this movie would be a good idea? She's an avid knitter, so I suspect she liked the title. Maybe she read a review of it somewhere. I have one thing to say about it - next time we watch a movie, I think it's my turn to choose.

Okay, in fairness, it wasn't bad, just extremely bizarre. I'm pretty certain I understood what was going on and what the point was, but when it was over, well, "Hmm. Huh. Interesting." might sum up my reaction. (Or maybe "You sure know how to pick 'em!")

It starts out with two elderly sisters who live by themselves in a large house outside of town. Every morning, they walk into town looking for discarded items. They never fail to find at least one thing that they feel is valuable enough to bring home. They never throw anything away. One day, they find some red wool. Of course, they bring it home and that's when the fun(?) begins.

"Damn! I have to knit it all over again! Aaaaahhhh!"

The Way Things Go

I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine. You know the kind of e-mail I mean - obviously been making the rounds, a fair amount of hyperbole, etc. It was about this "Fantastic Machine" that took these people 13,029 hours to build, blah, blah. After looking at it, I was pretty sure it was fake, and sure enough, it was; no such machine exists. But, it reminded me of a great film called "The Way Things Go" made in 1987 by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It's about half an hour long and the whole thing is just a Rube Goldberg type experiment. It has no point or function, but it certainly is fun. I give it two big, enthusiastic, well-lubricated thumbs way, way up. To see the whole thing, you have to buy or rent it. Or get it from your local library. Here's a little clip: