I induldged in sloth yesterday. I slept in until almost noon (I haven't done that in a long time) and then basically lived on my couch all day. I went out twice, but both times just to get food (although I stopped and got some movies on the first outing as well.) All told I watched The Mask, the first 20 minutes of SpaceBalls with the commentary turned on (it sucked) then another 15 minutes or so with it off, an indie movie called Roger Dodger, two episodes from the first season of the Gilmore Girls (the WB plays them on Sunday nights now), the season finale of Boomtown and the pilot for Six Feet Under.

I'm a bit supprised my eyes didn't hurt by the end of the day. It was a bit too much to process to have detailed thoughts on all of it, so I'll just do some highlights.

The Mask: This is probably Jim Carrey's best wacky comedic movie, and I still believe it firmly belongs on my list of the good comic book movies. Also it's cool to see in the credits "and introducing Cameron Diaz." This was her first movie and I wonder how she managed to not be in some early trash before scoring this role.

SpaceBalls: I love this movie and have seen it many, many times. I was way dissapointed in the commentary by Mel Brooks and had to watch about 15 minutes of the regular movie before I could move on. This is one of those where I can recite each line as it's happening (I refrain from doing this though, especially when others are around.)

Roger Dodger: This movie was intruiging. It's morally screwed up and quite dark, but I really enjoyed the dialog. And as a character study of a screwed up guy who sleeps with a lot of women it worked well. There were also many quoteable lines (I quoted it several times today.)

Gilmore Girls: I didn't really pick up on this show until the very end of the first season so it's great that the WB is replaying the full first season this year. It's been fun to see all the orignal episodes and it gives some more background to what's going on in the current episodes. I wish other stations would do that with their shows (for example, I didn't start watching The West Wing until midway through season two.)

Boomtown needs to get signed for next season. It's not an incredible show, but it's way, way above average and deserves a few more seasons to see what it can do.

Six Feet Under: This is a wierd and surreal show. I don't know how much time I'll spend on the later episodes, I may just cruise though some of the first season on DVD and see what I think after some more episodes. I mostly watched this because I like to watch the old Sports Night cast. That was one of my favorite shows and this was the same reason I started watching Ed again this season (when Sabrina Lloyd showed up.)

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