it's been a fucked up day. our cat, berta, fell ill and stopped eating and drinking. she is one of two cats, the other is ernie, that's been with us since anna and i moved into our first apartment. she is between 14 and 15 years old. so we took her to the vet who said berta is having renal failure, and that there are two options:

1. euphemistically put her to sleep
2. treat the infections and go from there

we chose the second option. she is at the vet now and i need to call tomorrow morning to get an evaluation.

i know death is part of life. i've accepted that a long time ago. still, it sucks when facing the death of our loved creature. berta, anna reminds me, is my cat. she was the second addition to our household. the first was ernie. when anna called me to tell me she was bringing home berta i was reluctant. didn't want to disturb the harmony of the home. i was wrong. one look at the kitten and i fell in love. both are dumpster cats rescued from the back lot of the construction firm anna was then working.

i took the day off from work and spent it taking a nap, reading and commenting on some blogs, watching fulci's movie conquest, writing a couple of emails about berta, and being strung out.

part of trying to decompress from the stress of berta's health was watching the fulci movie - a seriously goofy, deliriously surreal hodgepodge of zombie-cave man a la quest for fire-sword&sorcery flick - but also watching the trailer for the new j.j. abrams [of the tv show lost fame] untitled move about a dozen times since my brother showed it to me last saturday. there is a helluva mysterious viral campaign associated with this flick. i'm a sucker for conspiracy stories and mysteries and all the buzz on the internet is fascinating but overall just silly. abrams is crazy about leaving a trail of clues as is evident in his tv program. the trailer for the movie - tentatively titled 1-18-08, the date it opens in wide release, and cloverfield, is pretty well done. essentially, it's a monster movie, but the style of filming using hand-held cameras, at least they are used in this trailer, is what got my interest peaked.

check it out. and yes, i'm aware of the irony of posting a trailer for a movie about a monster attacking nyc on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.

or maybe it's not an irony. not meant to be for me at least. it's a movie that simply struck my fancy, and because of the trailer, i'm looking forward to seeing it.