11.11.03 | 12:18 a.m. | An Alternative To Convolutions

everything has been going swimmingly for the past few days ... i keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. even though i'm barefoot.

the weekend was filled with lots of lazing about in bed, reading and fussing with my computer.

originally, miss e-, miss a- and i were going to see the matrix convolutions on sunday. mostly because we felt obligated to get it out of the way. and then we realized that there were better movies that we'd rather spend our money on. like kill bill or lost in translation or love, actually. but none of these were anywhere to be found. so we caught up on all those movies we keep saying that one of the others need to see...

and so it came to miss e- and i dreadfully trying to keep out mouths shut through empire records and to keep the roommate in-jokes to a minimum. and then...

i saw the best movie of my life. finally. spirited away did everything wanted a movie to do. it freaked me out, it made me sad, it made me think, it made me wonder, it made my heart leap for joy. oh, and it's animated. gorgeous.

it was also one of those definitive moments where i realized that haku is the exact sort of character i crush on. have always crushed on. will always crush on. i am, in short, fixated.

he is a pale, pointy, pretty, powerful, arrogant, haughty, rude, clever, smug, smart, oblique, unusual boy of dubvious motivations that some how becomes your best, most trusted friend, despite all evidence to the contrary. ... not to mention that he was a green and silver dragon. really. it seems the universe is pointing something out to me with a glowing neon sign.