| | My mother has this annoying habit, whenever we are in the videostore, of pointing out movies she thinks are great, and then when I suggest we rent these movies she says "oh, no, I've already seen it."
Tootsie is consistently one of those movies.... in fact she takes it a step further and will say, "oh tootsie? you haven't seen tootsie? Oh, it is such a great movie, you should see it. Oh, but, I've already seen it." Maybe once or twice it might have been funny, but I have it on record as being at least five times. The last two I started cutting her off saying "yes, that is tootsie, no I haven't seen it. Yes I know its a great movie, but you will never rent it because you've seen it, and we've had this conversation before." It didn't work... it was like there was this creepy time warp at the videostore.
So yeah, now that I am living outside of the house, I saw tootsie, damnit. And, it is good, so nuh. I think my mother thought it was great because... she likes Dustin Hoffman, in a really big way. Like, she saw Little Big Man when it came out, and thought it was a crying shame that it didn't win best picture (for those of you who don't get what that means, next time you have over three hours to kill... see Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man). She gets this way with actors, Harrison Ford, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman. (yeah when redford and hoffman were in all the presidents men [another movie that is awesome], she saw it, a lot). My mother is a testament to the continued existence of the star system in Hollywood.
Actually, I like Dustin Hoffman too. He was incredible in Moonlight Mile (one of four DVDs I own, even though it makes me cry like crazy). Actually Moonlight Mile is incredible because he plays against Jake Gyllenhaal (however you spell that), who is playing... the exact same character Dustin did in the Graduate (which, strangely was on my father's list of films I was required to see... hopefully not because of Dustin Hoffman being attractive. To be fair, Close Encounters of the 3rd kind was on that list... and Rocky, oh that one, I think its Three Days of the Condor). But, parental guidance asside, Hoffman was also wonderful in I heart Huckabees, him and Lily Tomlin.
ANYWAY, I had a point, other than to list a chain of movies/actors that I liked.... what was it?
Ah, yes. Tootsie was good.
In other news, I hung out with Frank for most of the day. It was nice, we went on a walk, went to a used bookstore went out for crepes. I rented more of that 70s show... made me kind of sad, but I am "staying strong" because I have Jamiroquai (who have a new album coming out soon! whoo hoo!), and because I found the most awesome online vintage store... so I spent like twenty minutes mentally dressing up Frank (to look...something like Hyde, you know when Hyde cleans up). Frank likes 80s metal fashion, go figure. Well tomorrow is going to suck because it will be anothe day of reading loads of Japanese history. I need to do my shit, because the author of the book we're reading Doctors in Taiwan during the colonial era (...okay its real title is "Doctors Within Borders") is coming class and I have to blow everyone away with my masterful ability material or at the very least not make a total ass myself infront important member of academia
You know, I may not have gotten the "college experience" (something Frank was bemoaning earlier... I guess he thought he was done with partying [that cool asshole went to "real" parties in high school, the kind that come with personal vomit stories. I went to board game parties, not a single vomit story, not once. Not sure who is the real loser here]], but now he misses it... it seems like a damn stupid thing to miss, but whatever), but I sure have learned a hell of a lot, and not just in that "life learning" sort of way (did that too) but I mean, I've had some damn good professors, you know, ones that are national leaders in their field. Hell Dr. Jessica Utts did a whole bunch of research for the government, got it published and was on a bunch of talk shows debating about goblins.* All of my professors went to school in much more prestigious places too, Cornell, Harvard, Oxford... yet strangely they decided to come here, well whatever.
Anyhoo, I am going to bed, I didn't get much sleep, Frank now that he has a queen sized bed, has learned how to sprawl, and it wasn't easy sleeping (although, I think I may have taken my sleep frustrations out on him, because when I woke up, he had these finger shaped red marks on him... my finger size, they faded in about half an hour)
*Alright, that isn't true, she was talking about psi, and the "skeptic" kept bringing up goblins... he had a thing. a thing where he felt like being an ass, and besmirching the names of goblins everywhere by mixing them up with statistical data about anomalous cognition. Like I said he had a thing (everyone laughed at him on Larry King Live, well Larry kept it together, but that is why they pay him the big bucks, the technicians I am sure were laughing their asses off, I know I was).
posted by Amber at 1:33 AM
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