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Mon | January 01, 2007

happy new year

Dreamgirls. Just read all these reviews. The critics gave it a B average! I have no idea why. This is why I never read reviews. That would have made me not like the movie as much. As it were, I loved it. LOVED it. Like, from the moment I sat down in the sixth row, or thereabouts, which was much better than on the side, where we might have sat, had my wits not been with me tonight. I sat in the front, but not too close, in fact any closer and it would have been headache-inducing. But it was so close that it was basically all I saw, that screen, and the few rows in front of it. And anyway this is all peripheral, the point is that this movie is the best movie ever and I am going to get it on DVD so I can watch it again and again. Maybe I will even go to the theater again and watch it, if I can. Though the second time will not match the first, even though the first was somewhat muted. I watched it in Mountainside with a mostly white audience- in fact, coincidentally the few black people I saw were right around me, to the right, and the row directly in front. I guess we got there at the last minute, is why, whereas the others got there with plenty of time. The theater was full, which Curtis and Chrissa didn't expect, but somehow it didn't surprise me, it seemed perfectly fitting. If they could do it over they would have gone to the late showing. When we got out, whenever it was, there was no one there. In the ticket area. Which had been mobbed at 7:15. But I would not have liked to see the 10:30 as much, as I get tired now, and at 7:15 I had the energy to really enjoy it. So I would not have done anything different.

I don't know why I am writing about administrative details, I meant to write about the movie. I think I just don't know where to begin. Perhaps I will try again tomorrow. I will change the title of this post to something else and "happy new year." That will do. For New Year's saw Dreamgirls with CZ and CL and then we drove through four neighboring towns looking for a place that was open, and then finding no place, went back to CZ's house and he made Spanish omelets, and then I beat the crap out of them both at Scrabble, I mean not really, but kinda, let's say not really, but I probably should have let him win, I think, but I don't know, I don't play that much, sports and games, and so I don't really know, don't have an instinct for that. It definitely occurred to me to let up a bit, which I did, but at the same time I wondered if I could beat them, and what score I could get. So I got 198 in a three person game, probably the second or third time I have played Scrabble in my life.

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