<< January 22, 2005 >>
i flew all the way from boston to toronto, especially for tonight

in about an hour i'll be taking off for the great white north.

last night joe and i saw sideways, since i liked paul giamatti in man on the moon and american splendor. what can i say, other than it's about time our generation had a "when harry met sally" to call its own. it was a great coming-of-age story, although i would have been happier if they ended it before the last scene.

i've been forced to explain my positions on napolean dynamite and garden state on an almost daily basis. it turns out my beef with both of them is quite similar; they both feel like they were trying to be something great, but they just weren't. i can't (honestly) say that i didn't laugh at all during napolean dynamite, and it certainly wasn't as bad as the mod squad with claire danes. but it wasn't UHF either. i'd like to think i really gave it a chance, but it wasn't filled with enough genuinely funny (as opposed to just trying to be weird) moments for me.

as for garden state, i'm willing to see it again (although i don't want to buy the dvd in case i still can't stand it). i guess with the rising cost of health care these days, it's cheaper to get a movie made about your mental and emotional problems than to deal with them in a way that doesn't thrust them in front of millions of people encouraging them to make boring movies. i mean, ASWOHG (check out the "customers who viewed this book also viewed" section) is probably more self absorbed, but at least dave eggars is funny and has interesting thoughts. oh, and young toph...

another thing that's been coming up (not initiated by me, i promise) is the need to really figure out what you're going to do with your life. people kind of feeling like britney in "no longer a girl, not yet a woman." but it turns out, those moments are what life is really about.

posted by jacob around January 22, 2005