Don't miss Exit 60B

I am writing this entry in my hotel room in California (Holiday Inn Select Room 504 in La Miranda). I'm here for work, not fun :(

I usually take work trips alone and this weekend is no exception. I often make friends with the people I meet on the job site but they generally have lives. What this means is that I usually have the evenings to myself. After a long day on the job site, I really just need to relax and kick back. Because of my Tivo and other DVRs, I can't stand watching "live" TV anymore, so thats out. Before City of Heroes and Free High Speed Internet in most hotel rooms, I used to watch DVDs during this downtime. I have many fond memories of discovering some fine DVDs while sitting in indistinguishable rooms. Since I am rationing my CoH playing, I thought I would revive that tradition on this trip, so I loaded up my case and will see what comes.

Tonight I watched Elizabethtown by Cameron Crowe.
Boy this review is tough to write...

I have long been a fan of Cameron's movies. The were parts of the movie that I loved, but this movie just never came together for me. It seemed like I was watching three different movies with the same characters. It was like it could not decide if it wanted to be a romance movie or a coming of age movie, so it decided to use some screwball comedy to try and cover up the cracks.
Plus I'm expected to believe that Claire can put together a 47+ hour PERSONALIZED mix tape with accompanying scrap/map book together overnight. I will admit that this is the only way I would want to take a solo cross country trip, but seriously. Seriously!

I do have to say that the soundtrack did rule.