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Friday, December 12th, 2008
… I hate being sick. I’m not my usual, life of the party, constantly laughing, strikingly handsome, optimistic self when under the weather. I’m lazy, annoyed and waiting impatiently to stab the next microorganism I meet in the face.
… In my time at home, I’m reading because I’m totally intellectual. That includes blog posts and books I’ve been lax on keeping up with. To balance that out I’m watching shitty movies like TMNT. I’m going to have to read more.
… I’m reading a script from a buddy of mine. It’s sort of entertaining because most of the names/events are directly from my past. I don’t know if it has mass appeal (probably not) but it’s a decent first draft (he doesn’t read this anyway).
It got me wondering. How does Jessica Alba know from reading a formatted screenplay that a film will suck ass but for her… well… ass? I mean, there’s not a lot to a screenplay and it’s hard to visualize how everything will play out. Yet she’s spot on almost always. Amazing really.