this blog is straying farther and farther away from ‘brian’s thoughts and stories regarding his life’ and more towards ‘music and movie reviews plus some star sightings’. i’ll try to rein it in once i’m not so darn busy every moment of every day and have time to reflect or take part in some hijinx of some sort.

for now, let me just tell you that i’m on a hot streak with having celebrities walk past me. we went to an LA film fest screening of a scanner darkly last night and although there were no impromptu live concerts by 80’s rock icons — where were you on this one, devo? — on the way up the stairs leading to the seating entrance at the greek theatre, i nearly bumped woody harrelson out of my way without even realizing it. jessica had to nudge me and say, ‘hey, look who’s in front of you’. i’m kinda slow.

then later we saw him again coming down the aisle right before the movie, along with keanu reeves and richard linklater. it was quite a ‘whoa’ moment. (sorry, i couldn’t help it). also, for some reason, the guy from dead poets society with the big nose that gets beat up for stealing the jocks’ girlfriend, as well as the artsy black turtleneck main guy from the movie empire records. how about that?

if only the movie were as interesting as the random celebrity. frankly i was a little let down on the sci-fi scale and it came off as more of a drug-paranoia movie. the suspense was sort of lacking, there wasn’t really any ‘action’ per se, and i don’t know… it was just a little flat. not bad, just uninspiring. i think i’d rather go home and watch my waking life dvd again.