Aladdin Sane

I had a lot of fun by myself today. Not that way, sicko! After my classes ended before noon today, I decided to go crazy and watch two, count 'em, two movies. What was I thinking?! I'm insane! Watch out!

First: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It's a Wes Anderson movie which means I know I like it even before I see it, and the first five seconds of the movie only serve as proof that the movie is a classic.

One of my favorite aspects of any Wes Anderson movie is the soundtrack, and The Life Aquatic is no different. Mark Mothersbaugh, late of Devo, does the score once again, and once again it's utterly charming. But the best and most interesting part of the soundtrack are the David Bowie songs that were Jobim-ized by Seu Jorge. Beautiful, just beautiful.

But perhaps the best thing The Life Aquatic (and I'm going to be biased here) are the Filipino pirates! Hooray! Hearing Bud Cort (Harold and Maude) speaking Filipino was pretty funny and seeing Bill Murray (Steve Zissou) kill them all to The Stooges' "Search and Destroy" was just super.

So that movie started at noon and ended around two so I had two-and-a-half hours to kill before Sideways started. So I left the theater to look for someplace to eat. Being in the middle of DC, I knew this place called Ollie's Trolley was nearby. I was told to go there by friends of mine. The thing with that place is that they only accept cash, which can be a problem for me, but after ascertaining I had enough I went there and had a burger and their fries, which they season with 25, yes, twenty-five spices. Mmmm.......... If you're ever in the area...

After eating I still had about an hour-and-a-half to go, so I loitered around Barnes and Noble, which was boring. After less then an hour, I decided to fuck it and just go in and wait in the theater for the movie to start.

Four-thirty. The cinema darkens, the previews roll. Then Sideways starts. It's a Paul Giamatti movie, what else is there to say? That guy is one of the best actors around. It's funny as hell, although I found it very sad because I could relate so much with Giamatti's uneasy, unstable, and neurotic character. Please tell me it's not just me!