Sometimes I really want to use this page to bitch about people at work. But, realizing that some of them will somehow get here, I will abstain.
I came here (to work; midtown) in a great mood, now I am pissed off.

Last night I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It was one of the best movies I have seen in a while, it definitely breaks through into the top ten of the last 5 years. I hesitate to put it in my top 5 of all time because I have only seen it once, and that just wouldn't be fair to my good friends Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Usual Suspects, Wonder Boys, and the other one (Amelie, Lebowski, The Game, Punch-drunk Love, etc.)

Regardless, the movie was so damn enjoyable that I kept finding myself saying (silently) during the movie, "Wow. Kauffman is a genius!" Michael Gondry, the director of the film, was credited with some writing, and, from what my writer friend tells me, he didn't do that great of a job for this movie. His reasoning was the $20 million budget that seemed like a bit much; the hand camera-like shots he used; and some of the Long Island scenes (a setting of which he is very familiar). Anyhow, I can see people saying that Gondry is riding Kauffman's inimitable coat-tails, but how would I know. Spike Jonze is incredible too, or is he? I think they are both two of the best directors we got (judging from the movies they have done, the music videos they have done, and those musicians that picked them to do their videos).

I have to see Eternal Sunshine again. I cannot remember the last movie that I saw twice in the theater (I may never have), but this should it.

Woody Allen was the only writer of movies I had ever heard of until I was in my twenties. Most of the time, it was just actors names, sometimes directors, etc. With Woody Allen, all of his movies were so distinctly his, so brilliant, metaphorical, etc. Charlie Kauffman is becoming our generation's Woody Allen. He is able to forge idea and story, something only few in each genre are able to do (Woody Allen, Aldous Huxley, Milan Kundera). All of his movies have become works of art and I am thoroughly excited to see the next one.