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I was struck by the urge to write.

Last weekend I caught the second half of Casino Royale, and I liked it so much that this weekend I caught the movie in its entirety. Great stuff, really. I'm so glad it wasn't a mountain of 90's cheese. I never found Pierce Brosnan to be very attractive, anyway. I like a handsome blonde every now and then. I'd like that movie on deebeedee.

Then, after watching Casino Royale, I was dumb enough to sit through a showing of House of 1000 Corpses. Good golly. I don't know what I was thinking. I was traumatized for an hour or so afterwards, but sleeping mostly fixed things up. The movie is shallow and cliched - horror house this, evil albino that - but there are a few interesting touches. I, uh, almost want to see The Devil's Rejects now. Almost. But not really.

I've seen a lot of interesting movies this school year. That's how I discovered Sugawara Bunta's 1970's yakuza flicks. He's a great actor - a total bastard in "Street Mobster" and the closest thing to a gentleman in the "Battles Without Humanity or Honor" series (I only saw half of the third, as well as all of the fourth and fifth.) I also want "Battles..." on DVD.

"Cave of the Yellow Dog" is also pretty good. The plot is a bit weak, I think, but the landscapes make up for it. Gorgeous. On Friday night I caught "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," and that was really interesting. America's got some pretty strange ideas about sex and violence, methinks. The director of Boys Don't Cry also said something that I remember - she referenced the male gaze, basically saying that movies are made by men, for men. Not the first time I've heard that, but still worth thinking about.

I also recently caught Mitch Fatel's Comedy Central special. The guy's hilarious - "Who's been reading my diary?" (watch the "Vaginas" clip) - but I wish he'd show some variety and talk about things other than sex. I'm afraid that if he did, he wouldn't be very funny.

When I first heard the theme song for Casino Royale, I was not at all impressed, but now I like it a lot. It doesn't hurt that the title sequence is gorgeous. The silhouettes really reminded me of one of my personal quirks.

In addition to knowing people by face, I know people by the way they move. It's a great way for identifying people who are too far away to clearly see. I feel like it's a great way of identifying people - it's very hard to be fooled by clothes and hairstyle. Those moves are unique and beautiful, just like faces.

Oh, so in counseling yesterday, the counselor and I started going through the DSM-IV for Asperger's Disorder, as it's called. We didn't get through them all, since we ran out of time. I'm not sure I meet the DSM criteria for Asperger's, but it sounds like the counselor certainly thinks I could have a learning disorder, because we briefly talked about scheduling testing. I told her I wasn't sure I wanted a diagnosis, since (according to Dan) having diabetes will make your car insurance go up. I don't need higher premiums.

Isn't that just totally crazy? With all that I accomplished in high school and college, and I have a learning disorder! Blows my mind. It doesn't explain some of the other stuff, but it certainly seems like I could have a form of aphasia, according to Wikipedia. It's funny, though, since OCD, Tourette's, and Asperger's all have some overlap, and I'm wondering if I'm in the cracks somewhere.

On my birfday, I went out to eat with Elaine, Weber, and Will. It was LOTS of fun - not one dead silence the entire time. I really like those people. I'd like to hang with them again.

Also, while we're on the topic of birfdays. Yesterday, a padded envelope came for me in the mail. Inside was a sealed, new copy of "Hotel Dusk," the Nintendo DS game. So far, I don't know who sent it to me, since it came straight from the Amazon.com seller. If you bought it for me, let me know so I don't stay weirded out.

Posted by amoeboid at April 14, 2007 11:56 PM