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cellar door
june is busting out all over
nick cave's "hallelujah" is a wonderful song.
so it's been a long weekend and i've learned many things. The first is that aside from a putting together a cool soundtrack and somehow getting times square all to his self for 3 hours, cameron crowe should be publicly beaten for making vanilla sky. oh, the dolby digital mix was cool too. and naked penelope cruz. but aside from this it was just crowe masturbating with material that he was not prepared to make work on screen. instead it ambles on for an hour and a half and then gives a half hour of exposition explaining the random way everything worked and making the entire movie useless.
next thing i learned: if you live in los angeles you will do cocaine. I learned this from time code, which was a very dangerous dvd for me to get my hands on. time code is the one that mike figgis did with 4 simultaneous, uncut video feeds running the entire 90 minutes. fascinating to watch. the story was really background and sort of lame, but god was it fascinating to watch. there were times when all 4 screens were boring. woman sitting in a car, two women eating, someone smoking a cigarette, and people having a dull converstaion, but it was still amazing. and then, the bastards went and put the first take in its entirety on the dvd (the final was the 15th take) so i watched that. and then the bastards went and made it so you could pick only one of the audio channels to listen to and i watched a few sections of a few minutes with all 4 trakcs and was tempted to watch the whole damn movie 4 times but i took it back to blockbuster.
i also learned that the popcorn maker i got at final show is the coolest thing ever.
i learned other things too, but i'm going to drop this format.
i saw happiness, which disturbed the hell out of me, but i've got to give it props. i saw donnie darko which i may hate or i may enjoy.
i watched mulholland drive on thursday with katie. i love that movie. no other movie in the world has done the things to me MD has. i copied the crying song to my computer for listening fun.
i have world cup fever apparently and have been dying to play FIFA. so i went to blockbuster and they failed me. then i wanted to rent lost highway, but i've become a snob and they don't have it on dvd. they have a huge dvd selection, but as i scoured it for 30 minutes today and found about 5 movies i'd rent i realize that they have a really shitty dvd selection full of movies like tom cats and pooty tang.
umm
on friday there was a party roommette style (minus tara + sarah's friend + andy) and there was a powerhour and the cowboy hat came out after a long rest. and i got very drunk. saturday is when i watched vanilla sky, and thank god sean was here to endure it with me and drink my beer. then i djd and we drank more and then fixed black russians for the road and i walked to his place in the cowboy hat again, played a game of gotham city racing and walked home and crashed.
postscript: one, the rhino elvis costello reissues are super nice.
also, i shit you not, there was just a thunder blast that has lasted about two minutes. it's still going. still going. three minutes later and it's still going. except the thunder is only contained in my apartment, which is the scary thing. and then i found out that it was coming from my speakers. whoops. donnie darko does it again. that was the coolest thing ever. why did it start though? i'll tell you why. it was a sign. because outside i realized something. i am going to become a god. not the god, but a god. blame it on vanilla sky blame it on donnie darko, blame it on my unchecked ego. either way, i have just been born as a god. the thunder was the symbolic baptism. i now have complete control over everything that happens in the world. i can do anything. i can make anything i want happen. it is all in my mind, everything. this power is frightening. terribly frightening. knowing that the world is my own creation. that everything is here because i made it be here. this is amazing. you may call it delusional, and you will, because i've created you to do that. holy shit, i don't know if i can handle this. but i will certainly try. a new day has dawned. a book has been closed and the universe has been opened.