briarwood | (no subject)

So, this story I started writing... I have no idea where it's going. I mean, none. Maybe I should just ditch it, but the bits and pieces I have aren't bad. I'm trying to "find" the plot in it all and it's being elusive.

Am still on a downer, emotionally...still don't really know why. Just one of those things, I guess. A bunch of little bad things all happening together.

I took myself out to the cinema last night: saw Perfect Stranger with Halle Berry (who I love in everything) and Bruce Willis (who does nothing for me, but it's okay if he's playing an unlikeable character so for this film it worked out fine). The movie: fairly standard thriller/whodunnit fayre, pretty good up until the end, where I get the feeling the story writer just got a little too clever. A twist in the tale is one thing, but in this case it felt just too carefully tied up. It might be one of those films that makes a much better experience on second watching, but it's just not good enough to go see twice.

I'm not sure what to make of the gay themes in the film. I mean, it wasn't homophobic, exactly, but I didn't get a good vibe from it, either. Maybe I'm being oversensitive on the subject.

Two great things about the movie though: Giovanni Ribisi was creepy as hell. I've seen him in a couple of things but I only really remember him as Phoebe's weird brother in Friends. In this film, he's damned good. Probably the best of the cast. Secondly, Nicki Aycox was in it! She only got about five minutes screen time but it was cool to see her on the big screen. And her role: totally Basic Instinct :-)

One last thing, for those who asked... Here's that tattoo I got a couple of weeks ago. The photo's pretty crappy, I'm afraid, but I think you can see it clearly enough.