it's always funny to realize you have so much more work that you expected. i assumed this week would be easy but i keep discovering stuff that i'd forgotten i'm responsible for. ("go drug trade!" --elena, who's here to eat lunch and covet the apartment. she laughs at our jokes: what a kind guest.) oh well. i guess if it were too chill a week, i'd fill the time mulling over nonconstructive things and somehow end up depressed.

at 4, the do-gooders, officially self-named Co|Motion as of sunday's meeting, meet to write grants til 8. but becca, who's back from paris, is making dinner at 6 and i'll probably come home for that; then film screening this evening, 7 - 10. i love averaging one movie a day. stupid external things, like my 2nd history paper in 2 weeks being due tomorrow, prevent me. too bad.
ross accused me of being anti-john. let me clarify: i am anti-john doing what comes easiest, i.e.: playing the sappy, gotta-love-him roles. same reason i don't have much respect for tom hanks or julia roberts. at this point, those people don't ACT, they just appear, and smile, and say lines, and old women everywhere clutch their bosoms and wipe a tear from their eye. tom hanks used to play assholes but he's foresaken those challenging roles -- challenging both for him and for audiences -- to play white bread parts. i don't want john cusack to go down that road. robin williams has, albeit to less success. i miss the robin williams of fisher king (ooh, jeff bridges. now there's a good actor). even if robin always played likeable parts -- a litlte bit of mork in everything he's done since? -- they did use to vary a little. not so much now.
tell you what, john. i'll forgive the 80s fluff as youthful indescretion if you wise up now. and for god's sake stop the backsliding.

top five actors you can't pigeonhole: the brave, the inconsistent:
choose among:
* steve buscemi
* philip seymour hoffman
* edward norton
* john goodman
* jeff bridges
* brad pitt
* cameron diaz
* frances mcdormand
* chloe sevigny
* winona ryder
* catharine keener
* uma thurman
or add your own!