Garden State

Great movie.

Impressive for someone's first movie but it still felt like someone's first movie.

The ending was too blah for this movie. Not blah but not on par with the rest of the film. It was like he had everything but an ending when he originally wrote it and he needed something.

Fair enough for your first time, Zach.

But Natalie Portman?

I fell in love with her.

She reminded me of this girl Fran I used to be in love with my senior year of high school. She reminded me of everything I liked about this girl. Of course, Natalie Portman is like 25 and Fran was like 17 so that kinda weirded me out.

But I don't Natalie Portman has done a better movie.

Go see it when it comes to your city.

I'll be fine.

I was thinking about Swingers yesterday and I remembered this part. This is why I go to the movies

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ROB
That's your problem, man. You can't see what you've got, only what you've lost. Those guys are right. You are "money".

Mike smiles, then...

MIKE
(starting to cry)
Then why won't she call...?

ROB
Because you left, man. She's got her own world to deal with in New York. She was
a sweet girl but fuck her. You gotta move on. You gotta let go of the past. The future is so beautiful. Every day is so sunny out here. It's like Manifest Destiny man. I mean, we made it. What's past is prologue. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. All that
shit. You'll get over it.

MIKE
How did you get over it? I mean how long 'til it stopped hurting?

ROB
Sometimes is still hurts. You know how it is, man. I mean, each day you think about it less and less. And then one day you wake up and you don't think of it at all, and you almost miss that feeling. It's kinda weird. You miss the pain because it was part of your life for so long. And the, boom, something reminds you of her, and you just smile that bittersweet smile.

MIKE
You miss the pain?

ROB
... for the same reason you miss her. You lived with it so long.

MIKE
Wow.

R.I.P. Superfreak

It's sad that Rick James died on Friday.

What's sadder are the two thoughts (aside from every Dave Chappelle as Rick James quotable)

1) I hope it's of natural causes so i won't have to listen to people say "Cocaine is a helluva drug" a gazillion times.

2) I hope this doesn't effect the planned Dave Chappelle/Charlie Murphy moive based on Rick James' autobiography. I know now that he's dead such a venture would seem kind of tasteless. But I think it's what he would have wanted...

He's Rick James

Bitch

"So sorry to hear that..."

I think the worse post-breakup thing having nothing to do with the actual breakup is having to constantly tell people who don't know that you've broken up.

I contemplated sending out a press release or little "I'm sorry to inform you that..." (Hallmark is going to steal that idea. Mark my words"

Honestly, it blows.

I am going to write a book/screenplay about a guy who's just broken up with his girlfriend and throughout the movie I'm going to have people inquire about his ex has a truty comic tool.

I find myself actually avoiding calling people who don't know because I am going to have to break the news to them and then deal with the following questions that I don't want to answer.

"What happened?" (I've narrowed my response down to "things just didn't work out")
"Was it mutual?" ("Yes")
"Are you okay?" (I usually lie and say "I'm fine" if only to change the topic)

So, if you still read my website, and I haven't spoken to you in the last month...

Times a-changing

So it has been a little over two months since I last posted.

Let's see what has happened since then.

I turned 27

Happy Birthday to me.

I am single again.

*groan*

Yeah, that's about it.

So needless to say, i have been too busy moping to post.

I have reverted to my post-breakup college days where I forsook the music of Jay-Z and Outkast for Sarah McLachlan and Aimee Mann.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, I am a little bitch again.

So I will be here a whole lot. Seeing I have nothing else to do.

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Bush Straight Talk starring Will Ferrell

"And don't watch the news...unless it's Fox"