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spielberg becomes kubrick Before I fell asleep for the second time yesterday, I watched a program about rafting and hiking in Alaska. It all sounds simple enough, but after an hours worth of watching I now know that I have to go there sometime. To be able to see a glacier up close would be unlike anything else I have ever done. Just the thought of that much ice moving across the landscape is beyond me. Then there are the colors of the ice to make it that much more unreal. My parents have already been to Alaska. In fact I think that they have been there twice, but obviously they went without me. The two summers that they went were when I was still in college and I couldn't afford to be without a job. Ultimately I think that my dad would like to move there, but I think that he has yet to convince my mom. ... People have been complaining about the sudden change in weather here. In the space of a day the temperature had dropped almost twenty degrees. To me it all seemed perfectly normal for this time of year in Wisconsin. Yes, July is supposed to be one of the hottest months here, but the weather always changes in Wisconsin. Besides we still have the rest of the month, August and part of September before it should start to get cool on a regular basis. ... Early this morning I saw my old car for the last time. Now I know that a car is just an object, but it was a good car for me. I never had any problems with it and I hope that the next person who owns it treats it well. That was only the fifth car that I have ever owned, but it was the one that had the longest so I think that the attachment to it was the strongest. ... I think that the ad campaign for the movie A.I. is all wrong. The movie has a much darker tone than what is seen in the television spots. At the very least it is dark for Spielberg, but then again I think that he was trying to do Kubrick. The end result is something sad and sterile yet slightly sentimental.
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