my beard should be thicker.

yesterday i saw a movie. i know. that's crazy. honestly, i wasn't too thrilled when i knew i gonna go, but it was virtually free. see, jessie had a gift card to regal, so she invited me to go see a movie with her. she wanted to see 'memoirs of a geisha'. i said 'sure. why not?' i'll tell you why not: cause it is nearly impossible to watch a movie that is so intent on depicting a side of japenese culture that is usually hidden (or at least not prominent), but the whole thing is done in english. i knew that going into it, which is why i didn't really want to see it too much. i was pissed off the whole time because they could have spoken in japanese or any other language not english and it would have made the movie almost good. i found myself disinterested with the plot. i didn't care about the geisha girl. as far as i am concerned, the movie was comparable to 'pretty woman' (even though i never saw it) in terms of the prostitute-type girl falling in love with a client-type person and vice-versa. in all, i would not watch it again, even if they refilmed it in japanese. maybe they thought it too difficult to have all the chinese actors and actresses speak japanese, so they settled on english. i'm sorry, but that made the story even less believable. poo on you.

after coming back to my (parent's) house, i needed to watch something interesting. i bought 'the united states of leland' a while ago at hollywood video since it was cheap. i watched it. i think it was really good. very depressing and lots of interesting views on life and excuses for doing the stuff we do and whatnot. i enjoyed it, but it left me with a similar feeling that i had after watching 'donnie darko'. i think the key word is depression. i felt depressed. it was a combination of the story with the powerful, yet subtle, soundtrack. i guess jeremy enigk wrote the majority of the songs and scores in 'leland' and they are quite good. i'm just mad that they never released the soundtrack anywhere. there were many good artists throughout the movie. poo on you for no released soundtrack, but props for making a good movie. have a candy cane. they are cheap now.

i've written two more songs since i have been home, and i am quite proud of them. i know you were interested in that. that's why i told you.