i am a tired person. i've had to wake up at 6:15 the past two days and i'll be up at 7 tomorrow because it takes pain to earn money! i hear that. there's nothin like gettin peed on at 8 in the mornin. still, it's so much nicer working with animals than people. does anyone out there understand how much more i love getting peed on and handling poo than getting talked down to and worrying about catty drama? is it any wonder that i've set up a fantasy for myself of retiring at some young age in some isolated ranch in wyoming or montana with hundreds of animals to care for for the rest of my days?

even with the early wake up i opted to see kill bill last night at 10, because movies are things i make sacrifices for, four hour night sleep type sacrifices. i hold the torch. so it was good. i enjoyed it. i guess don't read the rest of this until after you've seen it.. i was surprised by the lack of action, though, i knew there would be a lot more talking but i didn't realize this much. it was kind of a problem because i was there with the 13yr old amanda and i was expecting to blow her away with another action-packed kill bill but that wasn't so much the case, tho the available action was of course wonderful. the buried alive sequence scared the shit out of me, i almost hyperventilated. i loved pai mai, and his swishing of his beard - i loved the blaring homage to 70s stuff in that sequence, more so than the rest of both volumes i thought, even tho there is of course 70s everywhere. it's fun. everything was very fitting.. everyone got the right thing that was coming to them, it was neat and tidy. elle's fate was great, and i wished i hadn't seen the bill fate coming a mile away.. dammit, the second he told her about that around the camp fire i'm like "ok well that's how she's going to kill him", i was a little disappointed by that, even tho wao what a cool technique. what a fucked up relationship they must've had. he's an interesting character. i thought the pregnancy test scene was a little cheesy, even tho i loved seeing her act all normal in the bathroom beforehand. uma was great in this one.. there was a much wider range of emotions, the whole mother-daughter theme in all of kill bill is interesting, i think she deserves a nomination of some kind for this, at least golden globe. what was really interesting in the beginning was how perfectly quentin provided suspense and incredible dread.. when she meets bill at the chapel and you know what's going to happen and she has no idea i'm just saying "shit" over and over to myself.. "you overreacted!?" was hilarious at the end. there was a really interesting dynamic to the whole thing really... like changing the mood so dramatically when she first sees her kid, and you're conflicted about whether you should be overwhelmed like her or amused at how light bill is making the whole thing.. that was a cool move on quentin's part. so it was fun and i liked how i got to know more about the characters and it ended well, even tho i kept expecting disaster and am looking forward to a sequel years down the line where uma's all grey-haired and relaxed and vernita's daughter comes a'callin. in the end tho, i was expecting a blow-me-away kill bill movie, like the first one, a movie that could stand on its own if the first one hadn't existed, which was what the critics who liked it all said.. but i didn't feel that way at all. if the first one hadn't been, this one would just be a weirdly amusing random adventure..you wouldn't really know what to think. i'm gonna have to say the first one was a hell of a lot better.. the action was to die for (ha ha), the music was so perfectly used.. it was the surprise of something i'd never experienced before really. i guess this is the fate of all trilogies and volume sets etc, the first one always seems to captivate more. and it's so obnoxious because the filmmakers can get away with anything.. either they can ask us to judge them all as seperate movies if we like them, or if we don't like the others as much they can say it's all really one movie.. so that's sneaky and i think we'll see a lot of that for a while. it's not all that bad, it's just a different kind of movie-going experience. oh and uma really didn't look like that good of a fighter in those exercise sequences with pai mai.. lol, was that just me? she's too tall! still, i hope she gets some recognition as the most beautiful woman in movies today this year sometime, cuz she was hot to trot in these movies, she kicked ass and she looked great and she ever so briefly turned a BURIED ALIVE scene into something sexy as we see her stomach in those low pants. so that's some skill right there. give her something. i love you, uma.