Last night, I found myself unable to stop mentioning my urinary tract despite some “facts” like “I was talking really loud” and we were “outside” and “in public”. Then I may have gotten onto my uterus. I don’t know where this inappropriateness comes from.
Possibly from the glee I got from watching my dad squirm as one mentioned anything remotely health- or body-related at the dinner table or whatever. I’m not talking about inappropriate tampon talk here. I’m talking like, “my cough is getting better” light dinner discussion. I remember once saying “I have to pee,” and him being all, “This isn’t Friends or something, Brenda. People don’t talk like that.”

However, all will be pleased to learn that my urinary tract is healing nicely thanks to antibiotics and I expect it to be in full working order within days.



Dan posted about a guy who was dropping his film class because they weren’t showing any Tarantino.
This made me think of my film theory class; we had to write a short essay about films that had inspired and excited us and why and what we thought that said about our assumptions about cinema. And read an excerpt to the class. There are like 40 people in my tutorial. Half to two-thirds of them name-checked all the Wes Anderson, Lost in Translation current indie darlings who are distributed by Miramax and Sony Picture Classics and New Line and the “indie” studios that are owned by major conglomerates.
I went third. I talked about the kinds of movies I’ve liked since high school. (Mostly old Hollywood stuff.) How can Garden State be on your list of most important when it just came out. And seriously, the word that springs to mind is “self-indulgent.” And “shitty ending.” It wasn’t that bad, but given all the hype, I was really expecting something a little more, something.
Anyway, I was dismayed by how predictable these people’s taste was. And how “original” they though this stuff was.

Also, Sony bought M-G-M today. BBC World News on TV said that means they own the rights to half the colour films there are. This might be exaggerated. But still. They own the rights to a lot of movies.