Nyotaimori

i don’t know if anybody else has heard of this yet. but you know jessica lynch, the recently rescued POW? apparently the story is so good (because what is true life but a story in need of mass-media propagation?) that they want to turn it into a movie. a war-tear-jerker-happy-ending-movie. and WHO is the current favorite to play our heroine in uniform? sarah michelle gellar. oh yes. our very own buffy in iraq. i am curious who will play the iraqi informer who basically saved her life.

"This is the kind of movie that would put bums on seats almost anywhere in the world. Here you've got a real story of heroic Americans and it involves a pretty young girl in the lead role. What's more it's a true story with a happy ending. You're talking about a surefire hit."

i can’t decide whether i feel good or bad about this.

i mean on the one hand it’s just so typical of hollywood and america in general to take something and put some bright lights, big cameras on it and churn out a 2 hour motion picture for general populace enjoyment. and while i think that movies CAN offer you a glimpse of a life that you have no connection to and make you feel what the characters feel and see what they see. i don’t know in this situation if they will present it in a manner which will make it morally acceptable to sensationalize a war i don’t agree with and the actions of soldiers who i wish were safely at home instead of being shot by our own people. it’s great that “we” saved one 19 year old pretty girl. it’s fantastic. i am so happy that she’s safe and her parents know she’s ok. but what about the iraqi child that got the back of his head blown off? i saw those pictures. they were horrifying. but happy endings sell, small head-gutted foriegners do not.

but on the other hand, maybe the movie WILL present some of the horrors of war. maybe it will show people who have no conception of what war is really like the agony of being a prisoner of an aggressive regime. maybe it will make people THINK. and maybe buffy will look really good and shoot some things. can’t you just IMAGINE her in the little marine outfit? she’s so TINY.

don’t quote me on this whole thing being true yet. i mean obviously the rescue story and everything that’s true, (if by true you mean most likely factually accurate), but the movie thing is not concrete or anything. and certainly the leading lady role is not a given.

(i love you, jack black!)

From him:

As for inadvertently beguiling unsuspecting women, it may be too late. I don't know what I'm doing wrong (or right depending upon your point of view), but my seemingly irresistable farm-boy charm has gotten me into a bit of a predicament. After deciding to try my hand at being single for a while, I've suddenly got two girls that are both expressing a desire to get involved. I've been on a couple dates with both, and they're each fun to hang out with, but I wouldn't say I'm ready to get into a real heavy relationship with either. Lately the time spent with each has become a little more stressful because they've both begun to express concern about the fact that I'm spending time with the other. Basically I really like hanging out with both of them, but don't see a way out of this situation that won't result in one or both of them being pissed off at me. If I choose one, the other will probably stop speaking to me. Telling both of them that I'm not interested means I'll have to stop speaking to both of them. From my standpoint continuing to go out on dates with both of them would be ideal, but I have a hunch that would probably lead to one or both not speaking to me once the dates involve more than dinner, dancing, and a good-night kiss if you know what I mean. What do you think, is there a way to make this work out that isn't going to leave me looking like a jerk and/or not having any girls to talk to?

-Sought-after in Virgina Beach

From me:

Dear Sought-after,

Dear Abby

do i even know this person? no i do not. so really the title of this post should incorporate something about how this is the most indirect (intermediary being marina), convoluted (who’s confused? i’m confused?) email correspondance of the day. i’m rather wondering what will happen next. marina is supposed to keep me informed. (*editor’s note: i just learned that marina and mark, [has anyone else noticed that the SD couples have the same first initials? well mark/marina, jesse/jenny. i guess not robyn/ash, although we could change ash to rash. but he prob wouldn’t appreciate that], suck.)

marina’s advice to this chuck guy was, “pick the hot one. you don’t want to look at a fugly all night.” (paraphrased) mind you, she had a whole spiel first about being honest with them (about the relationship not about how fugly they are). honest schmonest. i vote threesome.

i can’t help it though. i like quizzes. and then i like the little picture/links they give you to put on your own webpage to increase traffic for them. pictures. quizzes. oh man. asian girls with feathery wings. it’s like porn to me.

I’m Angelic Cute!! made by Jen

if you want to see lots of fun pictures of marina and her boyfriend mark in mexico than go here. if you want to discover, as i did, that apparently mark’s brother has fucking met miyazaki, then you can go here. if you don’t know who miyazaki is than you can jolly well go jack off somewhere else. or you can go here, she says grudgingly. if you want to see me shrivel up in jealousy over the mexico beaches and the miyazaki then you can come over and i’ll make faces at you for a while.

i didn’t get the miki scholarship. which possibly some of you remember me talking about before. although i completely changed the topic of my research and wrote this relatively good proposal. well sort of good. whatever. the point is. rejection letter. another reason i’m glad i didn’t go to tacoma last week at all because maybe it would have made me sad to be there when they wouldn’t give me any money to go play with the internet and a digital camera in a japanese high school.

now i’m thinking, why the hell should i continue taking japanese language classes when the only reason i was taking them in the first place was so i could tell the miki committee that i was pursuing japanese under my own steam? and possibly my consideration of this idea is heavily influenced by the fact that i skipped last week since jenny was here, i have a huge test tomorrow which i haven’t studied for, and haven’t done the homework for last week or this week yet. and yeah, i could do everything tonight and study and get an A on this test, because it will be easy and, no, i’m not over-rating my abilities, it’s just true. but after the 2 hours of sleep i got last night it just doesn’t seem worth it.

also i think i have poison oak on my wrist again. fucking ay i’m whiny when i’m tired. i apologize to anyone who actually read this. (but now i’m going to continue)

if i drop japanese does it just further cement the fact that i’m a slacker and really have no business even applying to go back to grad school? who’s to say i wouldn’t just drop out of grad school too? it’s hard to feel motivated anymore.

on saturday i called this number, got a map point, got a map, drove to a bart station, waited 20 minutes for a shuttle, took a shuttle to downtown warehouse oakland, and listened to my brother play. the effort involved in getting to this rave almost negated being at the rave. however, the lack of roving gangs with guns smashing my car and threating my life (which is what happened at the last rave at this place–not to me mind, since i didn’t go and thank god for that) was pretty sweet. plus i saw mike barrett play too and his evolution into using jazz music is a development i was pleased to experience. jazz trumpets underscoring some fantastic breakbeat action is a good, good thing. now i have only to wait till my brother comes out with the james brown sampling he’s been working on, a trend which i take full credit for as i kind of introduced him to the james brown, and my life will be complete.