Love in the Time of Scurvy
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: the Chemical Brothers' score for "Fight Club"

this weekend offered up all sorts of surprises.

on Sabbath (Saturday, for you Gentiles not affiliated with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church) i performed "Other Agenda," a very well-written skit about people's various agendas for attending church. it was an ensemble piece and i played "Pastor Jim," the lead, more or less. good fun.

Saturday night we threw a massive pirate-themed surprise party for Amos, Corey, and Kelly, as their birthdays are all right on top of each other. the night can be summed up with the following collage:

after the party, Kelly and i went back to my apartment and watched "Aladdin," which still just cracks me up. love that movie. after Kelly went home, i watched Dancer in the Dark, which was a thoroughly depressing movie. it's directed by Lars Von Tier, who has the single most depressing view of America i have ever encountered. the movie was good, but not as good as von Tier's Dogville, which starred Nicole Kidman and Paul Bettany.

in the wake of "Dancer in the Dark," i sat down and wrote two short film scripts for Ben Mitzelfelt, which i will deliver to him shortly (probably this afternoon).

i then needed a pick me-up, as the Holocaust script i had just written and the "Dancer in the Dark" film had left me a bit drained, so i popped in season 1 of Britain's The Office, which kept me very entertained.

Sunday was slow and relaxing, i went in to Barnes & Noble with Kelly and perused the books. i picked up Chuck Palahniuk's "Survivor." upon returning home, i sat down and flew through 81 pages of the book, something i haven't done in probably more than a year, when i read Palahniuk's "Fight Club." absolutely a fantastic read.

tonight Kelly and i begin our first night of pre-marital counselling. should be a gas. i'll have a play-by-play account for ya' tomorrow.