i hate how loud my typing seems on quiet fourth floor of libraire. libraire is actually french for book store, but i can never remember the french word for library. i'm wondering if they have libraries. i learned today in humanities about AD and BC and how it actually is all centered around the supposed birth of jesus and time is completely different according to different groups - jews, chinese, romans.. that's funny. and creepy, how much of our world is all about christianity. Xmas isn't actually a way to get rid of "christ" for a new secular society, but "X" is a greek symbol for "chi" so it's really just an abbreviation of "christ". shiver shiver shiver.
i'm jonesin for coldplay a lot lately.. i want to keep trying..it's a nice mood cd.
so rules of attraction.. 6/7 out of 10. when something is really iffy you need to gage it w/ 10 instead of 4 stars. kristin of course bailed at the last minute and then bonnie and mike cancelled too so in the end was the beginning, me and jordan, and we went to outback beforehand cuz we were bored with money so it was like a date. good times. alice springs chicken is to die. .........ok this movie.. it hangs over you for a while. great music, i went right out and bought the soundtrack..which actually only has like two great songs on it, one by the cure, one by the rapture, who i'm going to have to get into. "shakeshakeshakeshakeshakeshake.." ok it was a little embarrassing being with my brother at first. the beginning is tres dirty.. the whole thing is much dirtier than i thought. i didn't understand "from the depraved minds who brought you american psycho and pulp fiction".. but i know what kind of writing american psycho is and the guy who wrote it wrote this and some other similar stuff about beautiful rich people having empty sex, doing a lot of blow, drinking too much, and maybe getting bloody. so that aspect of the movie was unsettling, right. i have this thing where i'm obviously not against sex, and i'm not that against drugs, but i have this feeling that if i fall into the worlds of either it'll end up being really dirty and repulsive like what's seen here. most of dawson's makeout scene was close up and might not have been him.. grr. still, though, axel, you really (really) need to see this movie.. it'll give us some topics of discussion.. this ellis guy has an odd way of representing the gay community.. in american psycho the gay guy was this snivelling little obnoxious snob that you wanted patrick bateman to kill.. in rules of attraction one of the three main characters is gay, but he's always falling down and getting beaten up and is generally pathetic.. even if he is maybe smarter than everyone. and the other gay characters are really effiminate and clumsy and dorky.. this is a little distressing. note that with the exception of Jack, there are no effiminate gay male heros in hollywood.. will, rupert everett, brian from qaf, and the legions of gay male leads in mainstream movies could all be confused as straight for many audiences. we're changing slowly.
the thing that gets this movie such high marks, relatively, is that when it's bad, it's obnoxious, but tolerable (except for the end monologue which is just cheesy and ruined a great deal of the story) but when it's good.. it's real fuckin good. the humor is the key. this movie has one of the funniest scenes i've ever seen in a film.. gay boys dancing on a bed and a subsequent restaurant scene that i nearly died during.. this other gay guy (also straight seeming) comes in for just five minutes or so, but he steals the whole movie.. i can't explain.. he's my hero.. please go see this movie just for his part. Dick.
there were so many unprepared people in the theatre with us.. these shock jock guys, who just saw teen sex comedy commercials with pretty girls on their backs and assumed.. oh how wrong they were. they would not stop talking.. nervously making jokes at every sight of the gay lead.. ugh. he was so funny, like a jungle cat.. pouncing on unsuspecting boys.. you should've heard these morons when that happened the first time.
i love how on loveline they've changed ridiculous to ricockulous. lol. i've started saying it.
axel, seriously, go see this movie so we can discuss. i miss brian.. bring him to me. i can't wait for horrible video distribution delays.
alan and axel - when are you coming down next?
next week, Secretary comes out.. a kinky sex movie with maggie gyllenhaal, jake's sister (i keep wondering what he thinks of that) and sexy james spader of sex, lies and videotape.. looks good. everyone on imdb.com seems to like it a lot..
i can't believe 171 people were killed in Bali. the news started with 5 people killed. this could be a scary start to something. or, rather, a continuation.

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