Movie: Upgrade (2018)

This movie was much more subtle than I had expected.  A well done addition to the AI taking control/cyborg genre.


As with all good sci-fi it provides lots of ideas to ponder.


Leigh Whannell (writer/director) is quite the talent.

Movie: Butterfly Kisses (2017)

I'm not a big fan of "found footage" films but this one is pretty clever.

Movie: Out in the Dark (2012)

A most disturbing film, as was intended.


The acting throughout, for every character, was excellent.


It has been haunting me since I watched it last evening.  It does make me remember just how lucky I am to have been born and be living my life in Canada. 


It also reminds me how brutish, frightening, precarious and fragile life is for probably the majority of people living on this planet.


Especially gay people - as a gay person I tend to think of gay people around the world as my people, as my kind, as my brothers and sisters.

It's not always a kindness to say "yes" when you really want to say "no" just because it's a little thing and you don't want to hurt someone's feelings. 


It can seem like you're doing the person a favour but they can latch onto that act as meaning more than it does and be set up to be really disappointed when later you have to say "no" to something bigger.

"Your pants are out of style."


"Yes, but they're not worn out yet."

I know it's just a subjective feeling but it seems that when there's an annoying person blocking the aisle or otherwise being a pain in the grocery they will continue to bother you, over and over, the whole time you're in the store.


Even if you move to the furthest aisle and work back from there somehow you keep running into them again and again.


It just feels sometimes like the universe is out to get you.

I recently returned from a trip and took transit in from Pearson Airport in Toronto to the heart of the city where I live.


It was crowded and noisy and people were so impatient and crabby and obnoxious and unhappy.


It made me realize that I live in a sort of personal island downtown. I rarely take transit anywhere and as a retired person I'm able to do most errands on weekday mornings.   There is such a difference in the world after noon.


I also no longer go to public events like movies, theatre, the symphony, galleries etc.  This has been a gradual pulling away from the public world and the people in it.   I fill my time with books and video content that I can access at home.


I don't think I could live in this city anymore if I still worked and had to deal with transit and busy crabby people day after day.  If I weren't able to maintain my personal bubble I would have to move away.