Among other, more productive activities I've done over my break, like working on, at various times, four different writing projects, I've been watching a ton of movies. I saw The Science of Sleep for the first time since I saw it in the theater last year, and I liked it a lot better the second time. I still think they missed a great opportunity to make a really beautiful, nice movie. It's still really beautiful, but it's got this sort of harsh, creepy tone that doesn't quite seem right. I get the theme, that if you live your life in fantasies then life will be emminently disappointing, but I just think that wasn't the movie for it. Pan's Labyrinth was the movie for it. I watched the new version of Blade Runner, though I'm not a big enough nerd to tell what's different. All I know it that that's a pretty fucking amazing movie. Too bad Ridley Scott is just a money grubbing whore like everyone else. Travis would never back me up on this, but come on, the dude has a director's cut of every movie. He's still nowhere near as bad as George Lucas, but nobody is. Of course, he made the first three Star Wars, the first three Indian Joneses, and Howard the Duck, so he's still awesome in my book. On New Year's Eve I watched Back to the Future. Yeah, sorry, to me, it's either a drinking holiday or a romantic holiday; I don't drink and I don't have any romance, so I didn't see the point in finding any plans. But yeah, Back to the Future is just so ridiculously good. Michael J. Fox was the shit. And Lea Thompson. Damn. Number two 80's babe in my opinion, right after Phoebe Cates. I'm not saying it's right, but if you go back in time and your mom in Lea Thompson, well, I couldn't really say much if you got a little second base action. Not saying it's right, just saying I'm not the one to judge. That grossed me out. And yesterday I watched Die Hard. I'm watching and I'm thinking, 'Is it possible to make a movie better than Die Hard?', and yeah, it is-there are a number of movies that I think are better than Die Hard-but the feeling was what I'm after. I mean, damn that movie is good. There are so many one liners. And the fact that McLane is cursing himself the whole time is just priceless. There's only one lame part of Die Hard and it's right at the very end and if you've seen it you know exactly what I'm talking about. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, well, I just feel sad for you