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So Thursday I got paid to get my haircut. It's supposed to be from 1928. Every time I see myself in the mirror I think my head looks taller.
Afterwards Brian and I went to a screening of Lars and the Real Girl. I knew what to expect and still found the whole thing a bit odd. I find especially odd that Ryan Gosling would do this movie, but I give him major props for taking more off beat non-mainstream roles. It makes me wish though that some cute shy girl was secretly in love with me despite incredibly odd quirks. ***. Afterwards we went to a bar to meet up with some of Brian's friends, and particularly the girl whose house I ended up last week. At some point he back to his seat and out of nowhere let me know that she wasn't interested in me. I later found out it came from her ex-boyfriend/freind and not from her directly, but it still felt like a major rejection and left me a bit depressed in the morning.
Friday I had no work and was feeling like a lump. I booked work early and was feeling better, despite a call later that I was cancelled. I hung out at Brian's and we played Scattergories without the game using lists we found online.
Saturday we went to the matinee at the Vista of Michael Clayton. I didn't really care to see it but I've seen every movie at the Vista on opening weekend for the past 4 films. As for the movie it's very well constructed and put together. It certainly keeps you on the edge and thinking, but it's just not my kind of movie. I did like how they play with this idea of is he good or is he bad. I still think the title is dumb though. I mean it fits because it's certainly what the movie is centrally about, but it makes you ask the question, Who is Michael Clayton? It could be called "The Fixer" or something but I would agree that that title would allude to a different feeling of a movie. ***.
Afterward we wandered around for hours and noticed a poster for this play that he'd seen years ago and was an interesting concept so we ended up buying tickets and going since it was the last night of it. It's this conceptual musical called The Last Five Years where the man's story travels forward through time, and the woman's story travels backward through their relationship. Brian thought it was a terrible performance, I thought it was okay. It could have been done a lot better though.
Afterwards we went to Blockbuster to rent "The Bigs" cause Brian wanted to try it out. All the batting and pitching has left my arm incredibly sore.
He ended up staying the night and then in the afternoon we walked all the way to downtown and I gave a tour of the things I know about including dinner at Clifton's cafeteria.
After he went home I watched Hannah and her Sisters. It's from the period when Woody Allen movies were still really good. I liked the inter-titles and voice over, and I really liked the little musical montages. It's just a nice movies. ***.
Today I didn't have work today and mostly laid about. I had to go to USC to return a book and I was going to stay for that class, but they were having their midterm. So I came home and watched I'm Reed Fish. Netflix recommended it to me and I liked it okay. It's just this little small town love story, until the film strip breaks and you realize what's really going on. The film within a film thing really is it's saving grace and then you realize. And then it turns out that it's written by none other than Reed Fish. It's cute. ***.
At midnight I went to Vons to get Transformers, but the machine didn't roll over to new releases like I thought I it was supposed to.
Tomorrow I'm working on October Road again.
Afterwards Brian and I went to a screening of Lars and the Real Girl. I knew what to expect and still found the whole thing a bit odd. I find especially odd that Ryan Gosling would do this movie, but I give him major props for taking more off beat non-mainstream roles. It makes me wish though that some cute shy girl was secretly in love with me despite incredibly odd quirks. ***. Afterwards we went to a bar to meet up with some of Brian's friends, and particularly the girl whose house I ended up last week. At some point he back to his seat and out of nowhere let me know that she wasn't interested in me. I later found out it came from her ex-boyfriend/freind and not from her directly, but it still felt like a major rejection and left me a bit depressed in the morning.
Friday I had no work and was feeling like a lump. I booked work early and was feeling better, despite a call later that I was cancelled. I hung out at Brian's and we played Scattergories without the game using lists we found online.
Saturday we went to the matinee at the Vista of Michael Clayton. I didn't really care to see it but I've seen every movie at the Vista on opening weekend for the past 4 films. As for the movie it's very well constructed and put together. It certainly keeps you on the edge and thinking, but it's just not my kind of movie. I did like how they play with this idea of is he good or is he bad. I still think the title is dumb though. I mean it fits because it's certainly what the movie is centrally about, but it makes you ask the question, Who is Michael Clayton? It could be called "The Fixer" or something but I would agree that that title would allude to a different feeling of a movie. ***.
Afterward we wandered around for hours and noticed a poster for this play that he'd seen years ago and was an interesting concept so we ended up buying tickets and going since it was the last night of it. It's this conceptual musical called The Last Five Years where the man's story travels forward through time, and the woman's story travels backward through their relationship. Brian thought it was a terrible performance, I thought it was okay. It could have been done a lot better though.
Afterwards we went to Blockbuster to rent "The Bigs" cause Brian wanted to try it out. All the batting and pitching has left my arm incredibly sore.
He ended up staying the night and then in the afternoon we walked all the way to downtown and I gave a tour of the things I know about including dinner at Clifton's cafeteria.
After he went home I watched Hannah and her Sisters. It's from the period when Woody Allen movies were still really good. I liked the inter-titles and voice over, and I really liked the little musical montages. It's just a nice movies. ***.
Today I didn't have work today and mostly laid about. I had to go to USC to return a book and I was going to stay for that class, but they were having their midterm. So I came home and watched I'm Reed Fish. Netflix recommended it to me and I liked it okay. It's just this little small town love story, until the film strip breaks and you realize what's really going on. The film within a film thing really is it's saving grace and then you realize. And then it turns out that it's written by none other than Reed Fish. It's cute. ***.
At midnight I went to Vons to get Transformers, but the machine didn't roll over to new releases like I thought I it was supposed to.
Tomorrow I'm working on October Road again.