Saw High Fidelity with Nomes on Friday. This was my second time seeing it and I can't reccomend it highly enough. The movie is great, especially if you've seen and loved Say Anything. Not that the two are alike. In fact, the reason HF is so great is that it is no more like or unlike Say Anything than you are like or unlike the person you were when you first saw Say Anything. It's a tribute to evolution and constancy both, and has a great soundtrack. See it.

Saturday Em, Karen, Crystal and I went to see Gladiator. It was very long (2 hours, 24 minutes plus previews), and very good. The camera work during the action shots was interesting, with relatively high-speed photography (little motion-blur) combined with a slow frame rate (about 12/sec to 4/sec at times, dropping frames and stretching out those that remained) and a very first-person pov for almost a Blair Witchy experience, if BW was set in 2nd century Germania and Rome and had a huge budget. All in all it was very good, especially if you can ignore the Braveheart-ish overtones. Interestingly, the Portugese version is two minutes shorter than the American version. I wonder what they cut...

Sunday was Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation at the UC Theater in Berkeley. As (almost) always, the shorts were great, though my personal high point was when they finished with Billy's Balloon (sorry, no clip). This is the funniest thing I've ever seen on a movie screen. It's even funnier than this.

After the festival, we all went back to Crepe de'Vine and played two hours of Fluxx, a great game that everybody should own and play.

Wow. All this gushing is making me tired! Tomorrow's the last day of instruction for the semester, so prepare for only one more week of cynicism (building up around Thursday and Friday), then finals on Saturday, Monday, and next Tuesday. After that, it's pimping myself on Craig's List for a few months until I start back up in late August.

Tomorrow, I'm going to ask you about your breakfast habits, and tell you about the kind of corporate espionage I'll only do for my loyal readers. 'Till then, have a good night!

-Kevin