Netflix advice

For those of you who are thinking of signing on, or about to:

They have you make a list of 10 movies you want to see. Make sure to balance your movie type out when you do this! They're sending me "The Pianist", which is well and good, -- EXCEPT IT'S GOING TO BE MY 3RD 3-HOUR MOVIE IN A ROW AND MY 4TH REALLY DEPRESSING ONE IN A ROW, following "The Good Girl" "Saving Private Ryan" and "Magnolia". I don't know WHAT kind of mood I was in when I ordered these, but I'll know better when I give them the next list.... I wish they had an 800 number I could call so I could say "Stop! No! Send me that later! Send me "Soul Plane" or something!!"

Soul Plane!

Um...you know that you can rearrange the order of movies in your queue, don't you?

Yeah, I do, actually, but never got around to it with one thing or another.... I'd do it now but I'm relatively certain the "tragedy section" will be played out now. At least for a while...

Nicole --

And just for the record, "Soul Plane" is actually going to be on my NEXT list.... I firmly believe that a little low-grade entertainment now and then is good for the soul, if one tastes usually run to high-grade. Kind of like reading stuff like Kafka and Austen and Proust all the time and every now and then picking up some Jacqueline Susann or Judith Krantz.... And if I sat through "Harold & Kumar go to White Castle" (which did have its moments), I can pretty much sit through anything....