Sunday, September 14, 2003

Would I open a vein for a little more wit? Definitely. Sometimes this brain of mine lets me down. If only my mind and mouth acted like blood brothers instead of cousins through marriage.

The 10th Anniversary Edition DVD of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is out now. I must own it. Top 10 movie for me. I was at Disneyland today with Josh and Johnny and most of the major rides were shut down, but we got in for free so it wasn't a big deal. But I noticed that for the month leading up to Halloween, they're redecorating The Haunted Mansion with the characters and style of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Now that's just rad.

Now if you want a completely incendiary song that is concurrently fantastic to drive to, listen to "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades" by Brand New. And as if it weren't a great enough song by music and lyrics alone, the title is a reference to the movie Rushmore. What more do you want?!

I want to live in a movie. I want to be able to see the shot of myself reading a letter cross-faded with the shot of that person writing it to me. I want to hear the inner monologue of the 28-year-old flight attendant before and after she agrees to get me an extra cup of water on my flight from Los Angeles to Nashville. I want to watch the conversation where my friends discuss those things they assume I know they feel about me. I want to see how many people I know I pass while driving each day and never realize. I want to see how hard or how easy it is for a girl to call me back after I spent 15 minutes starting and then stopping and then starting again to dial her number.

I'm hungry at 3:41 in the morning. Maybe I'm hungry for breakfast.