Whoa! The worst noise ever is happening!
Patrickt called me this morning as he was driving by my office.
"Wave out the window!"
"I'm doing it! I'm waving!"
"Oh. I can't see you."
So I told him what I'm going to tell all of you. I got your email/voicemail/thump on the ceiling, and I'll get around to answering it any time now. It's just that I'm finding myself to be juuuuust a teeeeensy bit unpleasant these days.
Plus, there's the issue of the sun.
If you've seen me in real life, I'm quite possibly the literally whitest person you know who is not actually albino. I know people complain about being superwhite at the beginning of suntime pretty frequently, but really, I'm whiter than those people.
I'm the kind of white that takes a few weeks to build up enough immunity to the sun to be outside on nice days for more than an hour. 2 hours? I might have to vomit, and I'll have to sleep for at least an hour afterward.
like so:
"Oh wow! It's so nice out here! ....whooBLECH! zzzzzzzzzz"
Get it now? Good.
So while the weather has been beautiful, I've been sleeping an awful lot.
Posted by Sonya at April 13, 2004 08:57 AMI'm like that, too. I have an allergic reaction to UV light on top of that. So if I spend a lot of time out in the sun in the spring I wind up being a splotchy vomitty mess for about three days.
At least we'll never be old and wrinkly, everyone will covet our smooth skin.
Posted by: Del at April 13, 2004 10:20 AMAnd disassembles my despair,
Never took me anywhere,
It never once bought me a drink.
Your poetry CD is ready, but I forgot to give it to Tiny this weekend. Just so you know.
Also: Tell Cake to stop telling people that Eternal Sunshine has a sad ending. Tiny was bracing for sad, which is wrong. Plain wrong.
Posted by: Jeremy at April 13, 2004 10:21 AMI think that was possibly the saddest ending ever, dude.
I'm finding that people who've had a Big Bad Heart Break are responding to that movie in a totally different way than those who haven't.
I've sure as hell wanted to erase someone from my memory in order to eliminate pain, but you know why I wouldn't? I wouldn't want to fucking go through the whole thing and learn all those lessons about hurt again. That ending is SAD.
Posted by: sonya at April 13, 2004 11:18 AMOoh, don't spoil it for me, I haven't seen it yet!
I am just glad to find one thing for which I do not envy you!
Posted by: THE COMTE at April 13, 2004 12:18 PMWell, if it makes you feel better, I'm your sunlight alter ego. I'm mostly white, but it only takes a few hours in the sun before I burn, and then turn brown, and stay that way until winter. I'll spend some extra time in the sun just for you this spring.
Posted by: UnderwearNinja at April 13, 2004 12:53 PMI like to think of that movie as being sweetly sad. Sad like awww. Not sad like I'd like to slit my wrists, but a sort of glorious melancholy. I like that kind of sad, it's just the right amount. I'm wating for video so that I can get that and lost in translation and be gloriously sad anytime I want. Now I can only do it when I get a crush and realize nothing ever will come of it
Posted by: patrickt at April 13, 2004 01:49 PMYeah, I can see how it can be sad, and you're welcome to that conclusion. It's sad for some of us. My point was that we had this long conversation about movies and expectations, how someone can set you up to see it in a certain way, and if it doesn't meet those expectations, it sort of messes with the movie experience.
My conclusion: Eternal Sunshine has no ending. And it's beautiful.
Posted by: Jeremy at April 13, 2004 02:12 PMMan I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one that needs to pass out after a few hours in the sun. Weird.
And your CD project? I'm still working on volume levels. But THANKS for your CD!