recent visual stimulation

With the month almost over, I am not impressed with my workout record.
Ten days out of a possible thirty is not a good ratio.  I had good
intentions, but the weather and other factors kept getting in the way.

My last two rentals from Netflix have not impressed me.  First there was
the odd offering of The Draughtsman's Contract from Peter Greenaway that
missed me completely.  From what I have read online, the movie was an
allegory of a certain era of British history that I do not know very
well so most of the in jokes were lost on me.  Not knowing the
background made the movie tiresome for me and I usually enjoy his work
such as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.  I should really
watch that one again to refresh my memory of why I like it.  I remember,
vivid colors and some graphic sex and violence, but I am not sure if I
felt for the characters or not.

The second most recent choice was the Japanese sexploitation film Sex &
Fury.  My primary reason for renting it was that I had read it
influenced the Tarantino film Kill Bill.  Now having seen it, I can
definitely see the influence with its use of a female lead seeking
revenge, but overall the movie seemed flat to me.  Martial arts fight
sequences from thirty years ago pale next to what we see in cinema today
and that really dragged the movie down for me.  Plus most of the acting
was very wooden.

To offset these two viewing disappointments, I sampled episode forty
eight of the anime series Bleach and I have to say that I enjoyed what I
saw.  At the moment, I have no real idea what is happening, but I do
want to know more and I see that as a positive.  My interest is there
and I am eager to explore the rest of the iceberg.