<< September 14, 2004 >>
wish you were her

i am having a blast here in houston. i hope everyone had a safe national day of freedom. as for myself, i spent saturday morning breaking my TiVo instead of upgrading it, and on sunday i saw most of garden state. here is a recap in an email i did not send to my friend:

hi XXXXX, i just got back from seeing garden state. well, most of it. i was not enjoying it and was trying to figure out what album i'd listen to on the way home... nothing really came to mind, though. i was scrolling through the iPod and i decided on let it be and then i was like, ok i've had enough of this movie and really want to listen to that so i left. i love the rush of freedom that i get when i walk out on a movie... especially near the end when you really have given it a chance and you actually *don't* want to find out how it ends. sadly the only other movie i can remember walking out on because i was just sick of it was the perfect storm. which is sad, because i really was excited about seeing this movie. i thought it was going to be great. but it just didn't do it for me. it really seemed like someone's first script, where they are so excited about telling the world how special they are. the characters were all pretty boring, which is surprising given how strongly they are portrayed as being "weird." but it's not weird in a good way... just like weird for the sake of being weird. maybe it's just that i don't "get" the drug stuff. and the cinematography was uninspiring. i was hoping for another royal tenenbaums - where two minutes in i knew it was a special movie. but when i put my headphones on and pressed play on my iPod and walked out it was as if i was floating out of the theater and across the common. on the walk home in the park on comm ave. there is a little like 9/11 firefighters (i think) memorial and as i walked by there was a guy peeing on a tree like right next to it.

it's pretty obvious why i didn't send it; i kind of lost focus towards the end. i think it's happening again...

posted by jacob around September 14, 2004