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Interview for a part time temp job Thursday. I keep telling myself it's a positive sign. I will get some interview practice and can prime the pump. Still... the kind of hoops one has to jump through just for a frickin' part-time temp job... I need the income. I can keep looking while earning a little.

In other news: $200 in Amazon sales last week. If anyone has any books, CDs, or DVDs they no longer want around their house, I'd be happy to accept donations for my little fundraiser.

Brad Anderson's Transsiberian

Brad Anderson is a filmmaker I've been watching since his 1998 romance Next Stop Wonderland in which the destined couple don't even meet until the last scene. His follow up Happy Accidents put a lo-fi, s/f, twist to the rom-com genre. Vincent D'Onofrio plays the boyfriend of a skeptical Marisa Tomei. He claims he has come from the future to save her life. She wonders if he's insane.

Since then, Anderson's films have taken a darker turn. Session 9 was filmed at the Danvers State Memorial Hospital just prior to its residential redevelopment. This psychological horror film provides one of the few records of the hospital as a physical entity.

Anderson won critical acclaim (and notariety) for his film The Machinist in which Christian Bale starves himself in the role of a sleep-deprived industrial worker. The tag line: "How do you wake up from a nightmare, when you're not asleep?" is a perfect description of this disturbing and hallucinatory film.

What I like most about Anderson is his ability to evoke a mood. There is a fine curiosity behind his films, and it is that aspect, along with an elegant grasp of technique that keep me coming back.

( Transsiberian )