November 14th, 2002. Thursday
Since last we heard...Well, nothing really new to report. I'm much more entertained these days by my brother Galvin's website from Japan than my own. He writes kind in a 15-year-old's mentality, but it's nice to see such purity of vision. Plus, it's pretty hilarious, especially when he gets his Japanese students to write. In the review of the Matrix, 14-year old writes:
"There is a girl named Trinity which means "three nity" in another language. She is very good fighter as well and her pants are very tight and shiny. She has secret move where she kicks bad person in his painful face, but first after kicking the wall and jumping. She loves Neo and he loves her and because of this the world is saved. An additional character is Samuel L. Jackson who plays a black man."
Every sentence is a gem. Also hilarious to me was his review of Amazon.com reviewers. Laugh out-loud funny, if you ask me.
On this side of the world, in my own little life- Played a bit o' geetar with my former neighbor Rachel over the weekend. Perhaps we will get a little rock and roll band going. Now we just need a catchy name. A side-project for her. I've always wanted to be in someone's side-project. That's about the amount of rock and roll success/notoriety that I would want. Just in the side project of a lesser known member of a known band. Anyway, not much was accomplished during the actual guitar playing, as we were both sort of awkward about it. But it laid a little groundwork i think for future endeavors. I've just been very lazy about recording things. But after Rachel left on Saturday, I actually ended up recording quite a bit. It makes me feel a lot less lazy.
Visited Miss Charming Melodee's parent's home on Sunday. Wasn't bad at all. A lot of food. a cute dog. And a lot of people, which I thought would be uncomfortable, but it just meant that no one person could ask me a long series of questions.
Celebrated her 25th d-bay this week. She has the same birthday as Kurt Vonnegut, Veterans' Day.
Went to a taping of the Daily Show yesterday. She got our tickets upgraded to VIP through her job. The guest was Ja Rule. My second time at the Daily Show. Goddam funny.
Then a belated birthday dinner in the East Village at the french place Casimir. The poofy-haired waitress said maybe three words to us the whole time. I asked her which of two dishes she would recommend, and she stood there "umm..."ing for a long time, looking simultaneously annoyed that I had asked her a question and genuinely concerned over which she should recommend. I didn't say anything to her after that. Why are the french so weird and aloof? Good lamb, though.
Also worth mentioning- I watched most of the Martin Lawrence movie "Black Knight" on Saturday night. When it came out, I thought it looked like the worst thing I'd ever seen. But I was actually laughing out loud at some parts. Pretty entertaining. And lately I've really been in the mood to watch movies set in medieval times. As luck would have it, last weekend Miss Charming Melodee and I were watching tv, and both "Braveheart" and "Excalibur" were on. And I've been getting a little tired of "A Knight's Tale," the other seemingly terribly but oddly enjoyable medieval times movie I've been watching a lot lately.
and a blah blah blah blah. I don't even know why I keep doing this. It sure is boring.
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