Tuesday - 2/13/07

4:59 PM Michael: please entertain me
Paul: i just farted
Michael: that's HILARIOUS
Paul: yes
it's my new brand of comedy
i call it
socialism
Michael: i think it'll catch on
5:00 PM ok i have a film snob gripe that i can register to you, who knows so much more about movies than i do
Paul: ha
ok
5:01 PM Michael: the other day i was at dinner with some people and we were talking about movies and this girl goes "yeah i really follow movies. i'm a real film buff"
so i mentioned something about seeing The Apartment recently and she'd never heard of it
so then i say, oh it's a Billy Wilder movie and she had never heard of him
5:02 PM Paul: what?
WHAT?
Michael: and i'm just thinking to myself - angrily and loudly, i might add (yes i thought it loudly) - how ridiculous this person is
yes WHAT indeed
5:03 PM Paul: i mean, i don't think i've ever seen it either, but to not know who billy wilder is is to say "i don't know shit about film except what was made after mighty ducks 1"
Michael: hahaha
yeah, the apartment wasn't the issue
it's the claiming to be a film buff and not knowing billy wilder
5:04 PM if it's any help, she also had never heard of sunset boulevard when i tried to give context to the name billy wilder
Paul: oh come on
Michael: AND when i mentioned pan's labyrinth and said it was a guillermo del toro film, her response was "i loved him in traffic"
Paul: hahahahahahahahahahaha
that's amazing
Michael: no joke
Paul: did you just laugh?
5:05 PM Michael: yes, and i'm glad i can tell that to you, who fully appreciates it
and why it pissed me off
Paul: that's unbelievable
a film buff
ha
Michael: pathetic
5:06 PM that's like if i said i was a political science expert but had never heard of the constitution
Paul: hahaha
Michael: Madison? no that name doesn't ring a bell
Paul: it's like if you said you're really knowledgeable of egyptian history and hadn't heard of cleopatra
5:07 PM "Sphynx"? is that some sort of newfangled energy elixir?
Michael: EXACTLY
oh and also bad was that i told this story to another group of friends and they also didn't know who billy wilder was
5:08 PM Paul: well, it's ok not to know who he is, but not when you say you're a film buff
Michael: i agree
5:09 PM it's still frustrating that no one our age who isn't obsessed with old movies knows who the director of double indemnity, stalag 17, sunset blvd., the apartment, some like hot and sabrina is
Paul: true
Michael: btw, if you haven't seen Double Indemnity, do so
5:10 PM i saw it about 5 weeks ago for the first time
Paul: i have been meaning to for the longest time
hey, why don't you come to ny and get hammered this weekend?
Michael: maybe i will
it's really tempting
5:11 PM i'll seriously consider it
Paul: we've got a lot of people coming to visit, so we'll add on one more
Michael: i'll let you know
thanks
Paul: word
it'd be sweet
Michael: did you get to meet del toro when you worked on Pan's?
5:12 PM Paul: no
course not
though i might meet christopher walken tomorrow
that could be cool
5:13 PM Michael: dude
that would be
Paul: we'll see
Michael: cool
Paul: i might not be around when he is
Michael: to the utmost
you will be
you MUST be
Paul: ok, check this out
Michael: is he doing voice over?
ok
Paul: i just got an e-mail from amazon.com
5:14 PM and it says that the following book is available, and people who have expressed interest in it have also ordered some kant book i once bought or something
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Stliche Schriften: Teil 8. Gesammelte Vorreden. Beitr zur Kenntniss der deutschen Sprache. Vom Alter der malerei aus dem Theophilus Presbyter "
what the fuck would i want that for?
5:15 PM Michael: hahaha
christopher walken would understand
5:17 PM my boss is taking a nap behind me
Paul: truly
5:18 PM Michael: i have no work to do bc i need my shit to be edited by the someone else
but i think he doesnt know that
so type-type-typing makes it sound like i'm still doing stuff
5:19 PM Paul: yes, that is the way to go
type away
tell me a tell tale
Michael: ok
5:20 PM once upon a time there was a man named chris walken
and he went to visit his friend the Paul of Cannon
and when he did Paul had a ridiculous photo taken of them
to preserve the hilarity for posterity
the end
what did you think?
5:21 PM it probably could use a love scene
5:23 PM Paul: ha, i wish i could take a photo
5:24 PM but since we're in the biz we have to act all pro and like fame ain't no biggee
Michael: that's true
but it's not tom cruise or some idiotic star like that, it's christopher walken
5:25 PM maybe you can snap something with your camera phone
5:26 PM Paul: that would be sly
5:28 PM i'd then immediately send it to you
5:29 PM Michael: oh man, work dismissed
it's icing outside here
so we're out
5:30 PM Paul: adios son
enjoy the free freedom
Michael: i appreciate the distraction, thanks
Paul: anytime
Michael: have a drink on me
Paul: always
Michael: just go to a bar in new york and charge it to mike
Paul: it rarely works
Michael: they'll know what to do
Paul: unless there's another mike in the bar
5:31 PM Michael: there's seldom another mike in the bar
Paul: ha
an uncommon name
later, kid
Michael: my mother invented it on my birth bed
Paul: hahaha
Michael: bye pops