8.19.01

i went used cd shopping yesterday with a friend and had the best used cd shopping karma – i walked in with one album in mind that i wanted (elvis costello’s greatest hits), and promptly found it. even better, i found it before my friend did, which meant that i got the real cd and he gets a burned copy of it. i struck out on everything else i wanted, but i think the day was still a success. then i saw original sin, which is quite possibly the worst movie i’ve seen in years. the only saving grace was that it was so bad as to be funny. the audience actually laughed out loud at the climax of the story (which goes something like this: the police find angelina jolie with her two lovers – one just drank coffee laced with rat poison and is foaming at the mouth, the other has just been shot in the stomach. she tells the police to get a doctor for the guy who got poisoned. the police say, “what about him?” and point to the other guy who’s bleeding out of the mouth. angelina kisses him (on the bloody mouth), shoots him with his own gun, and replies, “he’s dead.”) timing’s everything in this world, kitlens, and director michael cristofer just doesn’t have it. neither do i, it would seem. but that’s a whole different story.