Not much motivation to write another entry, stayed at work late on friday to get some work done. Then woke up and got another bunch of assignments sent by our Washington office. Probably should have just caught up on my sleep.
Well, bunch of scattered thoughts. I couldn't help but get amused by today's date, 07.04.07 (in British style). I wanted to be a pilot when I was growing up, and associate that number with BOEING 747, the largest airplane at that time. It's a good thing I didn't become a pilot, I don't think the passengers would have appreciated a nearsighted pilot with motion sickness.
This song I've been humming from my childhood yesterday, can't find the lyrics. It has a line "I'm dancing dizzy circles, with you in my head". The song's called Goddess, by Philipino singer Freddie Aguilar. If anyone finds the lyrics, can you email it to me?
And the last strand of thought for this entry. Apart from Annie Hall and Antz, my most favorite Woody Allen movie is Bullets Over Broadway. This movie got Dianne Weist her second oscar for playing the brilliant Helen Sinclair, and ignited the careers of Jennifer Tilly and Chazz Palminteri, both of whom I love for their bizarre choice of movies (Bride of Chucky has this infamous line, "But, I'm an oscar nominated actress, why am I having sex with a doll!") . And it has a mountain of sharp quotes that will keep you in stitches for at least a week. My favorite quote is: An artist creates his own moral universe.
Here are a few, courtesy of IMDB:
Rita: For me, love is very deep, but sex only has to go a few inches
Helen Sinclair: Two martinis please, very dry.
David Shayne: How'd you know what I drank?
Helen Sinclair: Oh, you want one too? Three.
Helen Sinclair: Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
David Shayne: You thought my first draft was c-cerebral and tepid?
Helen Sinclair: Only the plot and the dialogue. But this...
David Shayne: Was-was-was there nothing in the original draft that you feel was worth saving? Helen Sinclair: The stage directions were lucid. Best I've ever seen... and the color of the binder. Good choice.
David Shayne: Thank you. I've always had a flair for stage directions.
Helen Sinclair: Oh, Julian. Julian Marx. I do plays put on by Balasco, or Sam Harris, not some Yiddish pant salesman turned producer. My ex-husband used to say, "If you're gonna go down, go down with the best of them."
Sid Loomis: Which ex-husband?
Helen Sinclair: Oh, I don't know which ex-husband. The one with the moustache.
