finally checked out helvetica which ki mentioned awhile back. it gave a history of the font which i found interesting. the reaction against it in the 70’s and 80’s was also interesting. the fonts that helvetica replaced were actually more interesting in my opinion, but there is a place for it all. all helvetica would be bad in my opinion.
i watched lars and the real girl last night after the game and i give it two thumbs up. there wasn’t any sex with the real doll which some might have expected, but instead was about a lonely (and not right in the head) guy who orders a real doll and how the small town he lives in embraces her. she gets a job, is part of the school board, gets sick, goes to church and dies. and the whole town plays along.
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i thought it was a very finely tuned and well executed movie. an amateur staff and cast could never have pulled it off. somthing i think that eminates from experience. a very delicate movie actually with a thousand and one chances to go wrong.
