Happy Holidays and all that jazz

I should be sleeping- but why mess with a routine I already feel comfortable with...

I just got done watching 'Donnie Darko' for the first time. I actually really liked it. Somehow that Jake Gyllenhaal has grown on me. It was one of those movies that I wish I had actually paid more attention to while watching. In fact, I was making bracelets the whole time I was watching it on my computer. I have been a jewelry making crazy person lately. I'm quite proud of myself when I make a really nice one, but I somehow need to sell or give them away because I have so many!

I had a pretty damn good Christmas. I got an RCA MP3 player from Santa- yay! I was and still am totally pumped over it, but I am even more excited when I get to play with my niece's i-pod. I took to using that like a duck to water. It felt natural and right and someday I must have one! Till then I am pretty excited to use my player- I have over 1280 songs in it. I could fill five of those players (okay- maybe only four).

This last weekend I also watched another cult classic that everyone (and by everyone I'm talking about Cameron Diaz in Something About Mary) says is the best romantic comedy 'Harold and Maude'. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy parts of it, but frankly it was just another weird 70's movie. I would put it in the same category as Natural Born Killers, and True Romance- they may have loved each other, but they were fucked up and very unrelatable for me (I could probably put Sid and Nancy in this category too- but I've never seen the movie). I just don't get it- I'm one of those people who knows they are supposed to act like it was hip and wonderful- but I just can't do it. I know when something is funny or meaningful to me- and that was not. P.S. The Cat Stevens songs didn't help endear this movie to me.

I finished Cell a couple of days ago- I would kind of pick it up and read ten or fifteen pages here and there. It started off promising, but then I just lost really interest somewhere along the way. It really just made me want to re-read 'The Stand' again. I am trying to flip through Rejuvenile by Christopher Noxon. It is about the 'Reinvention of the American Grown-up'. In other words it talks about why we are still so childish even after we are supposed to be adults. It is pretty good and interesting talking about the different theories of why our society is never wanting to put away childish things. I've had it for two months and just now am opening it up!

I checked out 'The Constant Gardener' and 'Magnolia' and 'The Stand'(on DVD- I own it on tape), and 'In Good Company'. They were free- I hadn't watched them and I thought what the hell- I just might feel in the mood to tackle Magnolia- which I have mainly only heard bad things about. Anyway- I should be in bed dreaming peacefully about Jeremy Sisto, who I am just loving lately. It's his voice- it's so gravelly, and everytime I see him on Six Feet Under I want to jump on him, take care of him and/or run away from him. I like psychos I guess!?! I know that Six Feet Under is 'old', but I never got to watch it the first time and am enjoying all the episodes on Monday nights. I know how some things turn out- but for the most part I am ready to learn episode to episode.

night