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I hate Tuesdays.
Almost more than Mondays.
Especially now that 24 is over.
Tuesday is like Monday except that I'm already tired from doing stuff I don't want to do (i.e. "work") on Monday. Megatokyo doesn't update on Tuesday. RPGWorld doesn't update on Tuesday. Comics don't come out until Wednesday. It's still too far away from the weekend to really be excited about that... The only thing Tuesday has going for it is that Ozy and Millie is usually updated. And I could always read that on Wednesday. I guess new CD's come out on Tuesday tho. And they ARE rereleasing Diamond Dogs today... which I still don't have. Tuesdays still suck.

Seen a lot of movies in the past week... for me, anyway. A Mighty Wind, 21 Grams, and Lost in Translation. All were very entertaining, and I'd watch them all again. 21 Grams had Sean Penn being an asshole, but he was damned good at it. And Benicio is a really good actor. Now I want to see Traffic again too. AND he's going to be in Sin City! Being an avid Daredevil fan (the comic, not the movie), I LOVE Frank Miller. And his Sin City series was very very cool and perfect for a movie adaptation. Off-subject, I guess, but whatever.

A Mighty Wind isn't sticking with me so well. I like Best in Show better, but this one was still really funny. Although it was also kind of sad, which I wasn't totally looking for. Again, tho, definitely worth watching...

Lost in Translation, however, is sticking with me more and more. I had a bunch of people tell me not to watch it... Shame on you. This movie is perfect for the way I sort of feel or whatever. Yeah, I love Bill Murray (and might have to see Garfield just to hear him talk), and Scarlett is definitely a cute girl... But the thing that I took away from the movie was how the two of them were able to just BE in the NOW. No, their lives weren't perfect, and no, they weren't doing anything that was, say, "totally rad," but I really liked watching the two actors create their characters. And seeing the characters be able to just be happy with their present was really cool.

So, I guess that I'm saying that, all the "triffling truisms clothed in great, swelling words" notwithstanding, I still don't get the whole idea of letting the past go. So stupid. So, somehow, that's what I got out of that movie. And I want that feeling of just really not having any cares at the moment and just being somewhere... and being happy with just being there. Dunno if it takes a trip to Japan, but I wouldn't mind being completely uprooted and just leaving everything behind. Even if only briefly.

And, actually, that kind of goes back to something I talked about long ago in reference to a Peter Milligan story (Human Target #1) where the character was supposed to be at the WTC the day it was blown up, but he wasn't. But noone knew that he wasn't, so he just pretended that he was... everyone thought he was dead, and he just disappeared to recreate a different life elsewhere. Despite the obvious hardships of such a move, that has SO much appeal...

Anyway. Now I want to see Lost in Translation again. And, frankly, it could do without the semi-nakedness.