it's never over... my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder...

all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter

i'm gonna pretend i'm a columnist and bold everything properly in this episode of... melo's sordid life:

The Secret Lives of Dentists is FINALLY out now.. anyone who wants to see it with me, speak up.. new johnny depp movie in 7 days, 5 if i feel like sneak peaking.. my big exciting movie release that i'm in knots over: Intolerable Cruelty, Oct. 10, directed by the Coens, starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, watch that preview and tell me it's not going to be brilliant.. oh yes. i wanted to see Le Divorce but then it got bad reviews by all reputable sources and i'm just not sure any more.. how sad.. the main coup was it got me thinking it was the new robert altman but it's not, it's the new james ivory, not exactly the same thing - still, have you seen The Remains of the Day?? it was fantastic. altman didn't die did he?? ..no, imdb assures me he is still alive, tho he was born in 1925, which makes him.. quite old. he probably should've gotten the oscar for gosford park. poor guy. he's good. Short Cuts was good, kind of long and chris penn freaks me out a little, but we got to see julianne moore's bush for like 4 minutes, interesting give and take. OK LET'S EXPLORE ROBERT ALTMAN...
we'll go backwards
Gosford Park - v. good but doesn't have that extra funny umph that gets me going, but tremendous even still, oscar nominated
Dr. T and the Women - excellent! weirdest ass movie, in the greatest way.. hilarious and touching.. love it love it love it
Cookie's Fortune - i thought this was another movie when meghan flocken and i saw this in the theatre and it was just incredibly strange and we were caught offgaurd, and that was the night i met michael yardley, a boy who's slightly haunted me, so it was all very memorable. later that night we had a debate about religion and i was arguing the christian side because i was then and he would later draw a characiture of me as the weeping christian asking "what would jesus do?" and hand it to me at the SCC career day that i did nothing at. : ) good times.
The Gingerbread Man - never saw the whole thing, tho tried one night because it has robert downey jr. and i was obsessed with him then.. that's all i can give you. it's about murder or something
Prêt-à-Porter!! - french for "ready to wear"- AH! i love this movie! tho my once and only viewing was in 7th grade but i remember a lot of it very clearly - julia roberts and tim robbins fighting in hotel bathrobes and then having make up sex, the fashion world, everyone and their mother is in this movie, and everyone and their mother ends up having sex or making out at the end! gay kissing witnessed by me in front of my mother in 7th grade, boy the significance of that is outstanding! it's great fun! i have "pret a port" written on my board right this second because i was reminded of this movie recently and want to see it again and wasn't sure exactly how to spell the french, but wanted to look cool like i knew french, all to my family of course, who knows, i didn't know this was an altman classic until just now.. excellent..
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - he produced this, i forgot, but i love love love this movie, got me into dorothy parker as you may remember, and now leads me into lustful embrace of campbell scott as i run to The Secret Lives of Dentists.. love this movie
Short Cuts - his most famous maybe, like 2 hrs and 45 min long, a cast of a thousand stars, great in a way that paved the way for movies like Magnolia, 45 different-yet-connected plot lines and such
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - this of course i saw in my james dean craze, it's a movie made out of a play about this group of women and one gay man who becomes a woman who were all obsessed with james when he was killed and they reunite to talk about it and have drama.. altman apparently is a dean man after my own heart, because he also did
The James Dean Story - a great documentary in 1957 that i saw minutes after starting my james dean craze and it may have actually started my craze because it first introduced me to this tortured side of him that i grew to love so much.. it's incredibly affecting.

that's about all i've seen but he also did the 1980 Popeye with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall and he made his mark with the movie M*A*S*H which apparently led to the tv show, which, i hear, was quite popular for a while...
oh and get this, he produced another great: Afterglow, which i've loved since seeing it on bravo a few years ago, it's super sexy and sad and wonderful, directed by alan rudolph, who directed the Secret Lives of Dentists! see how the world is? we're all connected, man.. alan also did mrs. parker and a film version of vonnegut's breakfast of champions, which most fans hated but i loved at the time, before i'd ever read a vonnegut book.. so who knows, i need to see it again.

now why would anyone actually make it through all of that stuff above? because they really understand me and care about me. that's why. if you're at all familiar with commander coconut who writes that column on the front inside cover of the calendar section every friday, you'll understand how similar we are and how i could very easily take over that job when he wants to quit.. we are cut from the same.. tree.. ...what is the end of that saying?? cloth? i have no idea right now.

right now, just to continue going on about myself and my interests because it rarely happens anymore and some may be in withdrawal, i'm really into rage against the machine - particularly calm like a bomb, wake up, and the ghost of tom joad. they were a great band. what is zach doing now? song and video i still love and completely am not tired of yet: beyonce's crazy in love. jonah loves it too and i have a feeling he'll come up with a too-cute cover and make everyone giggle at shows. Cee Lo's Closet Freak is one of the coolest songs ever.. talk about funk. U2 could become my religion, you know? i completely cried in the car yesterday while singing along to "where the streets have no name". rufus wainwright's "poses" is a great song. radiohead's b-side "cuttooth" is super awesome. and blur's "crazy beat"! and duran duran's "come undone"! and the beta band's "dry the rain", which you may remember from that memorable High Fidelity scene. i realize now that i've never, i don't think, seen Gross Point Blank outside of tv edited versions.. i should maybe rent that and see if i'm missing anything real big. i love the scene where he's staring at the baby at the reunion. i love you, john. you big tall man.

okok i'll let you go, but thanks for amusing me. i spent about 10 minutes bolding everything just now.. imagine that.