The weeks in culture: April 21-May 11

Watched:
Baby Mama - Every modern woman thinks Tina Fey resembles them. I am no different.
Death at a Funeral - Quirky British comedy of errors
Select Sex and the City eps - Not quite the marathon Sar and I had planned, but we did watch some classic moments (Miranda proposes to Steve! awwwww)
Select Grey's Anatomy eps - Josh was gone, I was bored, I wanted to relive the glory days when Meredith and Derek got their flirt on and all was right with the world.
Iron Man - Awesome up one side and down the other. Witty, visually appealing, action-packed, with morals, flirting, a message, and a fabulous performance from Robert Downey Jr., who I've always had a crush on. This movie did nothing to diminish said crush. If anything, said crush was strengthened by shirtlessness and sardonic humor of RDJ throughout film. Note to self: see film again.

Read:
A General Theory of Love by Fari Amini and some other fools
Listen, I like non-fiction that reads like prose. This ain't it. It doesn't behoove writers to get so flowery about the inner workings of the brain that it makes it difficult for their explanations to be understood. Know your subject, know your audience, and don't diminish your message by clouding it in a lot of unnecessary adverbs.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Read this one for a book club with some coworkers. It has kind of an On The Road vibe to me -- and I didn't like that either. 650 pages of indulgent, meandering, competent but meaningless prose. All you self-absorbed poets, who hop from bed to bed and smoky, dimly-lit bar to bar, who think your dabbling in metaphors and hedonistic relationships is going to unravel the keys to the universe, who think you're revolutionaries who are challenging the status quo, who flatter yourselves with your knowledge of obscure literary figures? Get a job.

Highlight of the weeks:
Birthday soccer! ...Or Iron Man. Did I mention Robert Downey Jr. is smokin' hot?

Lowlight of the weeks:
Incompetent coworkers. I'm hoping one of them gets shit-canned.

Pop culture time waster of the weeks:
1980's and 1990's lyrics trivia. Nostalgic and surprisingly tough. It helps if you kind of say/sing them to yourself, but you also might feel like a super lame-ass.

The weeks in soccer:
Aside from super-fun birthday soccer, I've had an okay time. Last week I managed to pull off another curving corner kick goal - I think if I practice I might be able to improve my consistency at it, and that would be delightful indeed.

Toward the end of that same game, though, another woman fell on one of my legs and my ankle made this horrible cracking noise. I walked it off and played the rest of the game, but later it swelled up like mad and kind of didn't want to be bent at all. That sort of interfered with general movement, as you might imagine.It's fine now; I played yesterday and didn't manage to tweak it anymore, which is good. It was kind of cramping my style.