Any Minute Now

My brother and sister-in-law should be here at any time. They flew into Portland on the red-eye from Anchorage, and called from Salem area around 8:00 a.m. It's probably just over 500 miles I think. It's might be bum roads though. It snowed last night and melted all day but there are mountains between here and there. Long drive after sleeping on an airplaine all night.

I always talk them into going to see movies when they visit. It's Ultraviolet that I want to go to. My brother isn't exactly keen on Milla Jovovich movies. I personally liked the The Fifth Element -- which I probably saw with them.

Anyway, I tend to watch these kinds of movies because that is my favorite genre. I write stories set in the future and create genetically modified humans for my stories. Maybe someday Milla Jovovich can play in one of my movies. Of course, haven't written a screen play yet. That would help.

Speaking of movies....

I was watching an old Oscar-nominated movie from 1957 called Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and was mentally comparing it to this years line up. I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain yet, but couldn't help but noticed that it has garnered more Oscar nominations. Times sure change. That old movie was about a soon-to-be nun (Deborah Kerr) and a Marine (Robert Mitchum) stuck on an island in the South Pacific during WWII. They fell in love, which wasn't something they could do because she was to become a nun after all. No kissing in the nearly 50 year old movie. It's my understanding the forbidden love story in Brokeback Mountain is consummated. Hmm... I haven't seen it yet.

I'm not complaining about the changes I see, I'm just noticing. After all, a good portion of my stories have explicit content.