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Mary Beth and I did the errands yesterday (and got some cake and cookies while out...). Then I was so damn tired I took a bit of a nap. Which was good as I pretty much felt refreshed again. We went out to the drive-in last night. It was a *relatively* short run of animated movies. First was Heavy Metal, which is the only one I'd seen before. I hated it when I saw it a couple decades ago and I still think it's terrible. It's like a high school boy's notebook fantasy with barely watchable animation top off everything else off. Next was A Scanner Darkly. I'd avoided it when it came out as I'm generally wary of movie adaptations of books I like (also, I was like, eww the Dazed & Confused dude!...though now I've come to like some Linklater, he can be hit or miss by a wide margin). It ended up being pretty good. It wasn't amazing or anything. It didn't affect me the way the book did. But it was a serviceable adaptation. It's also been a very very long time since I've read the book. Last was Paprika. I didn't know much about it going in. It was okay. I lot of it felt incoherent in a sloppy way (vs dreamlike way). Made me think a lot of Inception (which I initially had similar thoughts of sloppiness that changed into more of an appreciation the more I thought about it, not that I think Inception is amazing or anything, just went from an initial impression of it being bad to pretty alright...just as an illustration that maybe I'll appreciate Paprika more if I think about it more? nothing's started jumping out yet though, I mean it's okay and all). So we got in late but not too too late for a drive-in marathon. But buzzing around in a little bit of a flurry this weekend with those last minute ground-level preparations for the festival that's less than a week away!