arc of time

okay, so i am a day late. sue me. i just couldn’t stop cleaning long enough to post yesterday. oh yeah, plus i bought a new tv (many thanks to best buy for the great deal on the open box model.) of course, i had to test it out as well with a late night showing of shaun of the dead, which, while amazing is not this week’s pick, although i am sure it will be soon.

but i digress. so without further ado, picks of the week, live from nashville, where i find myself stuck for work.

the cd this week is an oldie but goodie. coldplay’s a rush of blood to the head is actually the album that got me liking coldplay. i had steadfastly refused to like coldplay on some sort of principle i have since forgotten, and one day i came home to listen to the housemate playing warning signs on the stereo. i must have been tired or somehow otherwise had my senses dulled because i couldn’t recognize chris martin’s voice.

anyway, i was mesmerized by the tune, so i turned to dl and asked, ‘who is this?’

when she responded, ‘coldplay,’ my mouth about dropped. i had to admit i was digging it. so i loaded a rush of blood to the head into the ipod and was instantly hooked. i think it is probably one of the most amazing albums about love ever written.

i know there are a million people out there who were once like me; serious coldplay haters. give them a chance, i promise you will reassess. anyway they are the pick of the week because while watching the aforementioned shaun of the dead me pointed out to me that coldplay was in one of the scenes; which got me to thinking that i hadn’t really listened to them in a while.

so i wore them out on the drive to nashville and voilla, pick of the week.

the movie pick this week is the brilliance that is the queen. i am not even really sure where to begin to describe this. there is of course, helen mirren’s oscar winning performance as queen elizabeth ii, which was breathtaking, but that is only a start. actually all of them, from princes phillip and charles to tony and cherie blair are played brilliantly. its a risk to play people living in events lless than decades old and the actors all pull it off.

but i think what gripped me about the movie was the humanity of it. it fits so well with my worldview that most people are basically good and just trying to do the best they can. and that is how everybody comes off in this movie; as people, caught in a tough situation, trying to do their best.

anyway, see it and judge for yourself, but i loved it.