You know, Speaking Japanese, at a surface level is just a comedy. At a slightly deeper level the whole thing is about miscommunication, hence the metaphoric title. At a really deep level it's mainly about life, which makes sense since if a writer is doing his job, all he's really doing is showing us the things about life that we already know. A lot of times when the people involved in making the movie are hanging out something will happen or some story will be told and we'll-usually them not me-will reference a line from the movie, so I've been aware before that I may have been onto something when I wrote it, but this really occurred to me this morning as I was getting dressed and having a disagreement with life, cause there's truly no better time to have a disagreement with life than when you're doing something as menial as getting dressed. Anyway, in the course of my disagreement with life this morning, a line from the movie popped into my head as an argument for my stance. (I don't mind giving it away here since it's not a world-breaking statement or anything.) When we shot the scene Sibley rephrased what I had written and actually made it sound a lot better, though I can't remember just how she put it, but it was some form of this: "Maybe the person we're the most compatible with isn't the person we're supposed to be with." So that came to the forefront of the argument and I though, "I wrote that. I really believe that. That's true." This is something that happens to me a lot, where I look back at something I write and I realize how poignant it is. I know this sounds incredibly pretentious and I can't help but apologize for that, but usually when I'm searching for rationalizations in my many disagreements with life I come up with something from a known writer or thinker, typically Kurt Vonnegut, so it was pretty odd to hear my own words come up. I guess what I'm saying is not only did it help me in my current disagreement with life, but it also gave me more hope that when we do finish this thing that maybe people will be able to connect with it in a deeper way than I had expected. In more reality based events, my Ipod shuffle it turning up nothing but old songs today, well by old I mean pre-2000 or so, but that is a while back. Econoline Crush came up and I was reminded how much I still really like that band. It hasn't happened today, but yesterday I was telling the group about how weird it is when one of JoAnna Lynne's songs comes up on the shuffle. Like I'll be listening to a song from some big super-world-famous band and then "Bad Habits" or "Christina" will come on and it's like, "Hey, I know her." Pretty odd, that's all.