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[mattlistener]

Saw Adaptation at LSC with Brandi last night. Entertainingly self-referential! At one point the main character wonders, "I wonder if I'll play me in the movie?" and for a moment I thought, "Evidently!" -- never have I been so taken in by the reality of a movie. (Nicolas Cage plays "Adaptation" screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. I knew that going in, but was induced to forget this.) We came home and spent an hour online sorting out what things were historical and what weren't. The first 28 pages of _The Orchid Thief_ on amazom.com were like finding buried treasure.

Charles Kaufman's work that's shooting has the (possibly working) title of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", which has a delicious SF premise, sounds positively Phillip K. Dick-ian. See http://us.imdb.com/Title?0338013 if you like to read the plot capsule.

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[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

If this sort of self-reference entertains you, then you must have loved Scream (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117571), and ScreamII (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120082) even more so.

long gone are the days when we could reminisce nostalgically about the time when post-modernism became retro

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[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

I was at Baiton this year.. not sure if we met there or not. Do you recognize me -
pic of me taken Sunday at Kaaterskill Falls

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[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

Actually I recognized you at Baitcon from your LJ self-as-butterfly pic.

I was busy doing massages and didn't circulate much, so I don't think we spoke, though we may have listened to the same person at the same time a couple times. :-)

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[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

Oh!! You're the massage guy! How did I MISS that?!!!! argh. would you like to join my friends list?

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[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

>Oh!! You're the massage guy! How did I MISS that?!!!! argh. would you like to join my friends list?

:-) Sure!