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[botias]

I would like to recommend: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby If you are the sort that can put your brain and your notions of taste to bed for the evening (I sent mine off to boarding school personally; it's worked out well all around) it's worth it just to see Michael Clarke Duncan (that very big scary guy from Shadow Puppets) read Judy Blume out loud to a coma patient in *concerned face*.

It is rainy and soggy here. :P So I have been reading big, brightly colored flower catalogs, drawing up garden plans, cracking books on butterfly gardening written by earnest biologists and books on herb gardening written by giddy (well, giddy for Brits) garden authorities. My fav bit:

"Plants are squeezed into every corner--not a patch of bare earth is visible, and there is a sense that at any moment the whole thing might run out of control, which makes this planting very exciting [!!]."

It's going to explode!!! I love it! :D

I also reread Michael Pollan's Second Nature which is about both gardening and human attitudes toward nature. I highly recommend it along with all of his books. He does things I have done, asks questions I've wanted to know the answers to, and then addresses them in a wonderfully articulate and thoughtful way. His occasional flights of fancy are deeply touching sometimes and other times just flighty, but always feel sincere. His observations of the attitudes people bring to their gardening is spot on. Gardeners are as political, class-conscious, and prone to trends as any painter.

ETA: the exploding garden book is Making an Herb Garden by Catherine Mason It's one of my fav garden porn books

My other fav is Herb Garden Design by Ethne Clark

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

That quote is just so enthusiastic. It makes me want to watch the riot that is obviously about to erupt in that patch.

[botias.livejournal.com]

The author is so enthusiatic about this garden design that I like to imagine that it was actually the designer she was jonesing for. Of the many gardens in the book, this one is one of the least attractive, at least to my mind. Perhaps the pics didn't do it justice. ;)

[lil-leti.livejournal.com]

Well I haven't had a chance to really sit down and read a book or even Spuffy stuff like I would like to but I plan on making up during my Christmas vacation.

[botias.livejournal.com]

If I had the money, I would love to get people books for gifts, but for many a gift of time would be needed also. I don't get as much time to read these days, tho I got a lot read back when I was nursing. A great excuse to sit down.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Talladega Nights was a guilty pleasure!

I need more time to read. And I have to say I love the idea of an exploding garden...

[botias.livejournal.com]

I agree on all counts. :)

[adriana-is.livejournal.com]

Talladega Nights is made of awesome. I'll have to rent it again. :)

[botias.livejournal.com]

Whenever I think about Ricky Bobby's psychosomatic response to getting in a car, I giggle uncontrollably. :)

[adriana-is.livejournal.com]

I am partial to that whole Baby Jesus routine at the dinner table. :)

[botias.livejournal.com]

The cougar thing really got me.

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

OMG, we saw it in the theatre, and my husband laughed so hard at the cougar fight that he had to move to an empty row so that the people in ours wouldn't kill him. (Same thing happened at Mars Attacks, of all things.) His birthday was yesterday, and I got him his own copy so that he can endlessly re-live the magic.

In the stupid movie vein, I also unreservedly recommend Nacho Libre. It ain't Bergman, but man, it'll make you shoot root beer out of your nose. Who doesn't need that from time to time?

[botias.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. :) I adore movies that make root beer shoot out my nose. Have you ever seen MST3K: The Movie? That makes me giggle uncontrollably.