so. like. yeah.

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after phoning meghan and feeling like a poor cousin ’cause i was looking for someone to do something with saturday night, i decided to go get a couple videos to watch. i settled for bounce and the virgin suicides.
bounce was good enough, considering its painful predictability. tyler phoned about three-quarters of the way through, the first thing he said being “intermission!” that was a nice break. i was starting to get frustrated that they hadn’t reached the emotional climax yet and it was already 80 minutes into the film.
i’m not sure i understood the virgin suicides. i enjoyed it in a lazy, summer’s drive through the country sort of way, but it left me feeling a little unsettled. i worry that there really are families like that and i’m very grateful mine is not one of them.
sunday was frustrating. i didn’t want to go out, but i felt restless inside. i cooked a little. i cleaned a little. i spent a little too much time online. i smoked way too much. i thought about going to indigo, having a latte and buying a book, but i would have felt too conspicuous. it was bad enough going out to return the videos and getting ice cream.

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9 Thoughts on “so. like. yeah.”

  1. Shelagh on April 30, 2001 at 10:40 said:

    The Virgin Suicides is a mediocre movie, but MUCH better book. I read the book first (thankfully) so it didn’t ruin the plot for me seeing the movie. I really did like the book.
    Hessie – its pouring yucky here in Victoria – is it gray and wet in Van too?

  2. heather on April 30, 2001 at 10:56 said:

    it’s really, really windy. the clouds are just zooming past my window. it’s not so rainy now as it was this morning when i left for work, but i’m sure it’ll get worse.
    it’s supposed to be like this all week. =(

  3. Goddess on April 30, 2001 at 13:09 said:

    I wanted to like VS really bad but just didn’t. I wanted more from it.

  4. iain on May 3, 2001 at 16:26 said:

    I saw The Straight Story last weekend. Having spent most of the week pondering, I’ve decided that it’s probably the best movie I’ve ever seen.
    David Lynch, eh? Gosh, what? Yes.

  5. iain on May 3, 2001 at 16:39 said:

    Do you get these comments mailed to you? :)

  6. iain on May 3, 2001 at 16:41 said:

    I don’t think I ever trust people who say the book was better than the film… It always seems too convenient. I’d like to hear more people saying that the movie was SO much better than the book, which had FAR too many big words and long sentences :)
    That’d be refreshing.
    Don’t you think?

  7. iain on May 3, 2001 at 16:46 said:

    Arse monkeys.

  8. heather on May 3, 2001 at 17:04 said:

    thankfully, no. i do not get these comments mailed to me. =P

  9. heather on May 3, 2001 at 17:05 said:

    and, for the record, i actually think fight club was a better movie than book.

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