Soccer

First game of season - a practice match versus our seconds team (who are undefeated over the course of two years). They've been training for a month - we've not played together since last year, and haven't trained at all, to a man, I think.

Man, I stunk it up, the first half, in every way. Unsurprisingly, I got taken off after twenty minutes. I got put back in with a half hour to play in the second half, and played a bit better. Anyway, we tied them, 2-2, and played not too bad in general, so prospects look good for the year.

Injuries: Just a scrape on my knee, from the artificial turf.

Movie

Rented "The Ladykillers", which was watchable enough, though a far cry from the Coen brothers' best.

Movies

Somehow I missed mentioning that I saw "The Wrestler" and "Milk", both of which were outstanding!

Movie

Rented "True Romance", which was good.

Movies

On the plane to and from Tokyo I saw:

Body of Lies, which was average;

Muriel's Wedding, which was meh;

Pride and Glory, which was fairly standard;

Quantum of Solace, which was better than I expected;

and all but the first twenty minutes of Ghost Town, which I am astounded Ricky Gervais ever signed on to. He and Kinnear are good in it, sure; but they are good in everything. Why this pedestrian script-mill pablum?