back from a midnight showing of waking life just now, and upon second viewing i’m confirmed in the fact it’s the coolest movie of last year. it lost none of its charm the second time, for me — just a little bit of the wonderment, naturally, since i knew what i was getting. i hope it comes out on dvd sometime soon.

we also watched the godfather tonight, earlier, and man is that a great one too. the baptism/murder montage at the end always makes me delight in the possibilities of film. and you know what else i like? on nights where i just enjoy things this wonderful, just sit back and soak things in that are so delightful and impressive, it’s a lot easier to not have anyone to come home to (or come home with, i guess). if only art and literature and cinema could fulfill all my basic needs for companionship, i’d have the easiest time of completing myself.

finding a person to fill that function, even for a finite interval, is proving much more difficult.