Movie: Nicholas Nickleby brims with old-school sweetness, the kind where fluffy romances make you clasp your hands and go, "Oh," and Jamie Bell, death-white, twisted, tragic, 'saved in death' - makes you cry. Charlie Hunnam's jarringly artificial British accent has to be excused; his naive ideal of pure love is never toppled in this world where the poisonous villains he tackles are more often than not caricatures that Dramatically amuse and dismay. Visuals (Cheeryble brothers always dress alike, talk alike = comedy) - old-school, music - old-school, Nicholas' elf-like diction - old-school, OTT romantic Devonshire setting = old-school. Verdict: I love!
Event: I will see old friends, and find - we haven't lost anything at all.
Quote: "Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you." - How I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ended in all its ambiguous glory

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Movie: I Heart Huckabees tries to screw with your brain, and I am almost-convinced by extensive newspaper reviews to believe that the director's on a mad crusade/argument behind all the crazy, flitty, colourful camerawork. No, I know. Confusion comes off it in tantalizing waves, inspiring me to read Philip Yancey again, and to create avatars fossilizing the idealistic, passionate/vulnerable Tommy Corn, who stomps around in fireman boots and sits on a mound while trying to change the world or break it down.

Event: There was a gas leak or something at BBDC today and yesterday, making the whole place smell as if it's going to blow up. My instructor asked me how his hair looked. He doesn't have much hair. So I laughed and hurt his feelings.
Quote: "How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?" - Tommy Corn, IHH
"We are discontent with our lot, whatever it is, just because it is ours." - Roger Shattuck