100 mph, Random

I drove 100 mph on Hedgcoxe Rd. at 1 am Thursday morning. Then I went to bed. When I woke up in the morning and drove down Hedgcoxe again, one of those "this is how fast you're driving" contraptions had been set up on the side of the road. I felt totally awesome.

That same night, I went to the theater by myself to watch the last showing of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and it was fabulous. I had an entire row to myself. The movie was great. Willem Defoe as Klaus is hilarious, I had no idea he could do comedy like that. The next day, on a somewhat Wes-Andersonian high, I rented The Royal Tenenbaums at Blockbuster. I also picked up Garden State. The Royal Tenenbaums is incredible. It has so much quirk, personality, and humanity. It has a great look. And Gwyneth Paltrow is simply superlative. Garden State was also very good. It was sappier than I thought it would be, but in a way that was not unenjoyable, maybe because even the sappy scenes were still... realistic. Natalie Portman is also superlative in it. I also went to the movies with Jason Ho, David Phillips, Alison Moy, and William Hsu to see Meet the Fockers. Coupled with the two Wes Anderson films, that might have been a Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson overload there, but oh well. The movie was pretty funny, although about only half as funny as the first one. Dustin Hoffman makes this one face near the end of the movie that was really great, after he's told he's not in anybody's circle of trust.

I was able to be this active because my parents took my uncle from China to New Orleans for a couple of days, so I was home alone. I have more on my uncle's experiences in the French Quarter, but that ought to be a separate post. Dirty pictures involved (I won't post them).

Oh and Happy New Year--2005 sounds like a nice year to be in. I can't wait.