Daily Aggravations and Regrets
March 7th, 2003. Friday
On the overcrowded L train this morning, I noticed a bit of unintentional irony. Is that redundant? Anyway, on one side of the car was an HIV awareness ad featuring Magic Johnson. It ran the lenght of the car, with various different posters showing Magic smiling with his eyes closed talking about living with HIV. The whole ad is on a white background with Magic dressed in white and it looks very hopeful and whatnot. On the other side of the train, also stretching the entire length, were posters for the first season of Six Feet Under on DVD. Also on an all white background, the posters feature pictures of a hearse, a funeral home, and lipstick being applied to a corpse. Did no one notice this while putting the signs up? Or was this done intentionally? If it was done intentionally, well... it seems like something I would think about doing but would never actually do. I wonder who decides which ads go in which cars, and how they decide how to pair them up.Eating dinner in the Ft. Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight with the (literally) little lady, Miss Charming Melodee. I originally wanted to refer to her as "LLL" or "Triple L," but I don't think she'd approve of that. I'm considering a move to Ft. Green after my lease runs out this summer, so it might be nice to check it out. It's described as increasingly gentrified, and that sounds about right to me. And there appear to be three very nice French restaurants that have sprung up there recently. Were those last two sentences redundant? Anyway, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is right there, and it's in between Park Slope, my old neighborhood, and Greenpoint, my and MCM's current neighborhood, so it seems a convenient place if I'm thinking about relocating. We shall see.
OK, I'm bored at work and I'm reading Aint It Cool News, and there's a report on a movie called about the first female serial killer in the U.S. called "Monster," starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. The article's just about how there's a steamy sex scene between the two. And while reading the talkback section for this article, I couldn't stop laughing at some of the responses.
A sample:
(about Christina Ricci's breast-reduction surgery)-
"...Maybe it was a good thing cause some girls that have good looking boobs in a push-up bra turn out to have gorilla titties once they get naked with saucer-sized nips..."
It was really the "gorialla titties" line that did it for me."...ahem. OK, so I absolutely LOATHE Charlize Theron. Probably more than any other actor in Hollywood, I truly despise her. BUT, does that mean I'll sell out that hatred for the chance to see her grind it up with Christina Ricci? You bet your ass it does. This absolutely just brings out the caveman with me. I wish I were a better man and this didn't completely get me salivating, but... fuck it. As for proposed lesbian scenes, Winslet and Weisz is nice, I gotta go with Eliza Dushku and Heather Graham."
caveman. hilarious."The mind says going to see a movie about a serial killer for a sex scene is wrong. The body says who cares, it's Charlize and Christina, together, naked, getting it on. So torn."
Anyway, still getting over the illness. It's moved into the stage where the phlegm in your nose just smells like disease. Basically, it just smells "sick." Am I the only one who gets this? It's gross.
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