There’s some­thing about good strong pres­sure in a shower noz­zle. Without it, it seems like warmth is just com­ing over one’s body in some sort of dif­fuse, amor­phous manner.

My last week has been busy. I spent almost every moment of my week at home doing some­thing. I was tired a lot of the time, due to the sheer amount of stuff that I tried to get done.

Four of the days I hung out with John. I got him Metal Gear Solid 2 and Onimusha: Warlords 2 for Christmas. We watched Pumpkin and Adaptation. Pumpkin had some ter­ri­ble aspects to it, such as act­ing, but also had some very poignant moments. I’m try­ing to get one of the scenes framed, but I doubt I’ll be able to get a high enough res­o­lu­tion to have the proper print qual­ity. To me, the scene seems to speak of such an inno­cence, even in the face of fore­see­able tragedy. It reminds me of the igno­rance I have of peo­ple when I first meet them, that I have no idea what the per­son is like, good or bad. Adaptation was alright. I was expect­ing so much more from Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze, but I guess that even the mas­ter of orig­i­nal­ity can run out of ideas. Spike Jonze still did an amaz­ing job though.

I stayed over at Darren’s for three days. We gamed and gen­er­ally stayed up late. It was a lot of fun to be so tired. I saw Duets, which I felt had one really well devel­oped rela­tion­ship out of the three, which was a pity, since the entire movie was based on rela­tion­ships. Everything just pulled together rather cheeply in the end. I also saw Dog Day Afternoon with him, star­ring Al Pacino. He did a pow­er­ful part, what many con­sider to be his best, but I still con­sider Scarface to be his most accom­plished work.

I dis­cov­ered a band called the Gentle Waves which have a front­woman with an inter­est­ing singing style. I down­loaded a few of their songs, since I was hooked on Falling From Grace, and it was reas­sur­ing to know that their songs don’t all sound the same like Mazzy Star when I dis­cov­ered Fade Into You.

Over the entire week, I didn’t have the time to write a sin­gle entry. It was dif­fi­cult because I felt like I had so much to say. Sometimes, some­thing in a sim­ple con­ver­sa­tion will cause me to won­der, and I’ll need some time to think about what has been brought up.