The evils of television

My plans for a productive weekend always come to naught.

I guess the weekend isn't over yet, but I've spent most of it sleeping and looking at things on the television.

Finally, about 7 years after everyone else in the world, I watched The Matrix. I liked it, although the whole computer reality, body in one world and mind in the matrix thing still has me boggled. And there really was a lot of shooting. (That's the other thing: how were those machine-men killed by bullets? I thought you needed electro-impulses. Unless they were human bodies that had been taken over by the computer?). Also a lot of wall-crumbling. Every time you turned around, another wall was being turned to dust, usually by bullets.

I also spent the entire movie thinking that Morpheus was Samuel L. Jackson. What is wrong with me? It wasn't until the credits that I saw Lawrence Fishburne's name and realized that I'm an idiot. Also, I can't stand Keanu Reeves. I put up with him in the interest of this movie, but I don't understand why he's famous. And I have no idea why Trinity fell in love with him. They could've left that whole part out. It made no sense.

All in all, though, I'm glad I finally got around to seeing it. Entertaining and mind-bending. What IS real??

Because my DVD player is broken, I had to watch Matrix at my parents' place (they're in FL), and so I ended up just sleeping there. So today I watched a ridiculous amount of "How do I Look?" on the Style channel and "Clean Sweep" on TLC. It's a good thing I don't have real cable, or I would never do anything.