About a BoyChris Weitz, Paul Weitz, directors
A Hugh Grant vehicle in which Grant plays the character he always plays: The boorish, self-centered womanizing cad.
But it’s way more than that. At times just a comedy, it’s also filled with pathos, insights into “how did we get here and why?” and what relationships mean.
It’s about, on many levels, the human conditions.
Understated, very funny and with great performances all around, About a Boy is difficult to classify but enjoyable to watch. It’s based on a book by Nick Hornby, who also wrote the John Cusack vehicle, High Fidelity.
Music, by Badly Drawn Boy, works extremely well with the movie.
One of the things I really enjoy doing (duh!) is web work.
However, with my job doing the same, my work on my various personal sites has, well, suffered.
As in, I have not done a damn thing with any of them over the last year or two.
I just renewed the domain name for one of my sites (geistlinger.com) – I’ve been wanting to move this domain to a Linux platform for over a year, but I just don’t have the time to recode the site from Cold Fusion to whatever language I pick (PHP, I’m sure, to start).
Frustrating.
And, back in April(!), I picked up a new domain that I’ve wanted for some time to use as a wild experimentation site.
Still nothing there.
*Sigh*
One of these fine days…
On the plus side, many of the tools I’ve written over the last few years still power large parts of these sites, silently and consistently updating various sites with RSS feeds, review and gallery updates.
That’s way cool.
I just want to do more, dammit!