So yesterday I went over to Bloomies because Lancôme was having this giveaway-with-purchase and I have decided that I'm sick of blinding people and I need some fake tan stuff. So I got some Tan in a Can, mousse style, just because between the spray, the lotion and the mousse it sounded like the most fun, and I got for free a really nice black canvas bag, mascara, Champagne lipstick (pink), and Paparazzi nail polish (also pink).

Plus a baguette. Don't ask me why.

Also yesterday, I saw Contact.
Extraordinary movie; especially so if you have lost a parent. The best thing about it is that it's a movie about big things, and most movies are about such small things, really. Basically it's about the nature of science and the nature of God and how people think that one must preclude the other, but they needn't really. And Jodie Foster's character was born two days after me. I just think that was funny.

Great perfs all around, including from James Woods (the character description in the script must have said "a James Woods type" it was so typical), John Hurt, the guy who played the blind guy (don't know the actor's name), and Jodie, of course. And ol' Matthew McConaughey, of whom I have said "I don't see it". Well, I see it now--he doesn't rock my world, but I see now why other people like him. And he did a very nice job. It was such a marvelous film that the small errors that were there really annoyed me, because they really could have been avoided with a little attention.

Like, why would they cast a brown-eyed child to play a blue-eyed adult? And that wasn't me scrutinizing, that was GIANT CLOSE-UPS that made it apparent. And the child was terrific, too, so why they couldn't have stuck a couple of contact lenses in her eyes I'll never know.

Also, please, please tell me why Jodie would say that a life-changing event happened when she was nine and then John Hurt says she was born in August 1964 and the event happened in November 1974?
That's sheer sloppiness.

While we're at it, some of the effects were kind of ham-handed. The major effects-laden sequences were excellent, I'm talking about buildings that were clearly matted in later, so obviously that a fetus could see it.

But these are just small quibbles. Basically, it's an event movie that makes you think, and how often does that come along?

Then, after the film I went to my friend Rich's 40th birthday party. He's actually 41, but he never had a blowout for his 40th, so he had it a year late. Lots of fun. It was up on the roof with Christmas lights up, and I was able to berate Kevin and Kathleen soundly for forgetting to invite me to Othello, and I talked to The Engine for about half an hour, and John Unruh said "Have you lost weight?" which considering how long it's been since I've seen him is patently untrue, but he can think that if he likes, and I hadn't seen Barry in about five years, and Howie berated me soundly for missing his show, and Kathleen and Jeff are engaged, and Gregg David was very unhappy because he's afraid of heights, and I got home at 3ayem and fell right into bed without checking my e-mail.

Now that's tired!

Overheard at the Lancôme counter at Bloomies:

Slightly Smarmy Salesman: "Try our special Lancôme hydration spray!"
Tough Old Bird: "Why? What's so great about it?"
SSS: "Well, it hydrates you! It puts water into your skin!"
TOB: "But I can get that at my tap!"
SSS (somewhat at a loss): "But it won't say "Lancôme" on it!"

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