Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004 - 10:28 p.m.

Diaryland Quote(s) of the Day:
"Sometimes I feel I can�t walk, or run, and this only leaves skipping" --from Wateryone's 100 Things.

I want to write another 101 Things list, myself, now.

And now, the entry.

That just made me think of Monty Python's "And now for something completely different."

The Larch...

Okay, Okay, enough. The entry. (spoilsport)
Okay - and be honest - who else out there likes licking the pizza cutter after cutting the pizza when it comes outta the oven?

Come on; I know you're out there. There's just something about the nice warm, tomatoey, cheesey goodness of pizza sauce that makes me want to lick the damn cutter when I'm finished cutting the pizza. It really does. I don't like for TB to cut it, because he actually THROWS THE PIZZA CUTTER INTO THE SINK when he's done with it.

What kind of a soulless automaton does that???

Seriously.

I am bummed, yo. I missed the Mimi Smartypants reading because I don't live in Chicago. Though, to be honest, even if I did live in Chicago, I would have missed it, because I had no idea there would be such a thing. I am just not hip enough to be plugged into the wealth of blogging applications in the world, so I didn't find out about it until after the fact. Did you know there are even webzines and the like dedicated to blogging and bloggers? It's really kind of an odd concept, when you think about it...

I have just seen the movie Adaptation. It was decidedly odd, because it started out as this nice little quirky character study and turned into Deliverance Meets Alligator. As the bad 80's movie that SF Channel ran this weekend. Odd. Just...odd.

I also saw Bend It Like Beckham this weekend, because I am so hip in my movie viewing that I purposely wait a minimum of 6 months before seeing a movie everyone else on the planet has already seen. That's a minimum of 6. Usually I wait a full 12, or even more, I am just that cool.

Actually (in case you missed the sarcasm there), I'm just woefully behind the times and never have time to go to the movies when everyone else does, because I hate to go to movies alone and all my friends work normal hours while I work the 3 - 11 shift, which pretty much cuts into prime movie-viewing hours. This reduces me to renting movies and watching them at home, which necessitates a lengthy delay in the release-date-to-viewing process. So by the time I see everything no one is all that interested in what I thought, because if they wanted to see it, or even thought they might want to see it, by the time I've seen it and can say it was good, they've already seen it. But I like to think I provide a service to those people like me who do not have the time or opportunity to see movies in the actual movie theatre, so I'm going to go ahead and talk about a movie when I finally get to see it, anyway. So there.

But anyway, back to Bend It Like Beckham, it was a pretty enjoyable movie, even if I did predict Beckham's actual appearance in the movie down to almost the very second. I don't even know why they felt compelled to stick him into it, since it was wholly unnecessary, but you know those Brits and their crazy soccer addiction, so I suppose it was entirely inevitable he would make the appearance that he did, useless as it was. What's really funny is watching the "music video" in the special features section and seeing an extremely uncomfortable David Beckham mouthing the chorus to Hot Hot Hot. He must be painfully shy, poor guy. I kinda felt for him, except that I'm sure they paid him quite a bit of money to stand there and do that, and if he's not really shy, he's a huge wanker, judging from his lack of enthusiasm and the fact that much of the time he was actually gazing around like "why am I here?" The girl who plays Jess, the little Indian girl who wants to play soccer, is the girl who's now on ER, which was kind of surprising. She's very good, though, and so is Keira Knightly, who was not as sticklike as she was in loveactually, but not quite as "robust" as she was in Pirates of the Carribean. At any rate, it was cute and quite amusing.

I finally saw Bowling For Columbine, which I found extremely interesting. Although, I have to say to all you whiny baby Republicans pitching fits and dedicating websites to how it isn't a documentary and that Mike Moore should have his Oscar revoked, blah blah blah blah blah, get over your stupid little selves. I didn't like everything he had to say or how he said some of the things he said, but yes, little whiners who fear difference, it is a documentary. Interesting, though, how you play right into the point of the entire movie, which is the fear-based society we live in here in the good ol' US of A. And for those of you who choose to write off my acceptance of the film because you think I'm an anti-gun weenie, think again. I am pro-gun. As in, RESPONSIBLE gun ownership. Responsible people do not act like morons and leave loaded guns lying around all over the house when there are small children about, they do not treat guns with anything less than full respect, they do not bring them out as party games, and they tend by and large not to shoot people just because. But - and here's the key part - they are also respectful of people who fear guns, and don't act like raving psychotics in an effort to "defend" their "god-given right" to bear arms. As for all you gun-fearing people out there, you really need to calm down and get your facts straight and stop listening to the fright tactics employed by groups with agendas who play on your fears because they think no one should ever be allowed to own a gun...or anything else they don't approve of. Those groups are no better than Bush and his bunch. But I digress, and the really interesting thing about the movie is the points it makes about fear in America, and how the media and other groups have worked very hard to propagate it in order to maintain control. I would recommend the movie, for sure. But you really have to watch it with an open mind and take some of it with a grain of salt.

And last but not least, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean, and it was fun. :) It's a lot like The Mummy, so if you saw that and enjoyed it, I see no reason you won't like Pirates. Plus, Orlando Bloom is totally cute. :) And Johnny Depp is sort of out there in a league of his own. That guy never ceases to surprise me. He is quite possibly the most flexible actor who ever lived, not to mention an excellent freaking study of mannerisms and behaviour. Damn, I wish I was half that good. He totally deserves his Oscar nomination, and I wish he would win. He really is an astouding actor.

I ripped this off from Bohemist. It's called "If I Were".

If I were a stone, I would be: garnet

If I were a tree, I would be: a ficus, because they stress out all the time

If I were a bird, I would be: a hawk

If I were a machine, I would be: a typewriter

If I were a tool, I would be: a thesaurus or dictionary

If I were a book, I would be:

If I were a flower/plant, I would be: blue lupine

If I were a kind of weather, I would be: a summer shower

If I were a mythical creature, I would be: a pixie or elf

If I were a musical instrument, I would be: a clarinet

If I were an animal, I would be: a dog or horse

If I were a colour, I would be: some sort of green

If I were an emotion, I would be: empathy, because I am plagued by it now. And I do mean plagued.

If I were a vegetable, I would be: celery

If I were a sound, I would be: music

If I were an element, I would be: fire

If I were a car, I would be: a small sedan

If I were a song, I would be: the Adagio of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto KV 622

If I were a movie, I would be: The Cutting Edge

If I were a food, I would be: steak and a baked potato with butter

If I were a place, I would be: Paris

If I were a material, I would be: flannel

If I were a taste, I would be: key lime

If I were a scent, I would be: sun-warmed strawberries

If I were a religion, I would be: tolerant

If I were a word, I would be: hope

If I were an object, I would be: a theatre

If I were a body part I would be: a mouth, because I talk a lot and I'm kinda loud

If I were a facial expression I would be: "hmmm..."

If I were a subject in school I would be: literature

If I were a cartoon character I would be: Trixie

If I were a shape I would be: a square, probably, which sorta sucks.

If I were a number I would be: 3

If I were a month I would be: July

If I were a day of the week I would be: Thursday

If I were a time of day I would be: 3:45

If I were a planet I would be: earth

If I were a direction I would be: up

If I were a piece of furniture I'd be: a stove

If I were a sin I would be: envy

If I were an historical figure I would be: knowing my luck, Eva Braun, but probably Eve, because I am forever poking my nose into things it really shouldn't be in.

If I were a liquid I would be: mercury

Peace out,
Katie

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