2001-12-17 | 6:39 p.m.

corduroy licorice was left holding the bag. his mother handed it over to him as she hurried back into the store to get her forgotten receipt.

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online dating boy update:

no phone calls, no e-mail reply. nada. i guess this act of lack of communication is a fitting end to a "relationship" constructed of vagueosity. i would have liked to hear something from him, but this is how he's handling it, so fine by me. odb c'est fin�.

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i had a wonderful weekend consisting of good friends (c-girl and my sister and her cool-ass posse), cosmopolitans on the house, classic conversations, gift wrapping, laughter, good food (pumpkin ravioli...mmm) all topped off by fresh laundry and a now sparkling clean apartment.

there was only one flaw to the weekend: the thing some call a film known as vanilla sky.

i don't like to cuss out of turn, but...

I FUCKING HATED THAT FUCKING MOVIE.

i hated it so much, i wanted to HURT it. at one point, i was observing the running lights on the floor, wishing the convoluted, asinine plot, unlikeable "hero," trite message and horrific editing to the cornfield. cameron crowe is on my shit list in a major way.

a friend at work mentioned that he has noticed that his enjoyment of crowe's body of work diminishes with each new offering. i concur.

fast times at ridgemont high - a classic (crowe wrote it, but mad props to amy heckerling for directing)

say anything - a charmer

singles - it had its moments

jerry mcguire - good-hearted and fresh-faced, if a bit sentimental

almost famous - cloying schmaltz

vanilla sky - an insult to those with a brain stem

when i think of the millions of $ that piece of crap wasted, i get sick in me gut. the only good things i found in it were: radiohead is on the soundtrack, penelope cruz is as cute as a lil' puppy dog, cameron diaz was a fun psycho and about two of the lines in the script. otherwise...pure poo.

my friend a-boy said that someone told him after seeing the film, he wished that the theater had burned down the day before. now that's a quote for the print ads! my sentiments exactly.

you know, i've now realized that vanilla sky has all the earmarks of a future midnight movie cult classic. 150 years in the future, people will probably go to late night screenings of the film dressed in costumes from it and will shout out the lines a l� the rocky horror picture show. there are some quotes from the film made for mocking:

"the subconscious is a powerful thing."
"things are different now."
"we're bros."
"you're dead. i'm frozen."

oh yeah, the kids in 2152 are gonna have a field day with this one.

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