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Generally speaking, it was a good weekend. Went on date 3 with J which was fun, and actually ended up with a good old fashioned make-out session. Yipee! She's pretty cute, but more than once when I complimented her she'd responded "Thanks, man!". Seemed like an odd response, but who am I to say?
I saw three movies; "Half-Nelson", "The Illusionist", and "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles". On a 1-10 scale, I rate them as following, 9, 6, & 1. Sounds like a new Brooklyn area code. "Half-Nelson" is chilling, bitter, & touching for a number of reasons, the acting is tops. "The Illusionist" has so much going for it, and should not fall as flat as it does at the end. "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" was a guilty pleasure. I noticed it was playing as part of a Korean film festival and saw it immediately after "The Illusionist". Imagine, if you will, the entire Robotech space opera compressed into 88 minutes. Also imagine Robotech being written by RPG players & the fans. While I know, rationally, this should be a recipe for genius, it made for a terrible movie. Faux-anime written mostly by Americans, in an attempt to revive the franchise, and catch up with the recent wave of anime-fever. The 2d animation was stiff, the CG was even stiffer, and the Invid are basically Scientologists. Hardcore fans of Robotech will probably dig it, anime geeks might feel a bit embarrassed. I fall half into both camps, so I was totally uncomfortable. I caught myself before pointing out numerous plot holes during an open discussion after the film, fearing I might be lynched by the harder-corier fans from Queens in the back row. Geeks is geeks.
Sunday I rode up the westside highway, then around Manhattan running some errands. Almost got door'd for the first time, catching my pedal on a drivers quickly opening door. Spent Sunday night mulling over a funk, and started a drawing excercise I've done before. I sit down and try to draw something that will viscerally scare me. Something so horrific and weird that even I have a hard time looking at it. Not so easy. I did succeed however, and it left me feeling even stranger. Monday, just felt blue. Drew some more, went to Target (which had been ransacked by back-to-schoolers), and drank a lot of ice tea. I'll post pictures when I get the chance.