So yesterday Omar and I were going to see X2, but we ended up not.

The funny thing is that we were both early and I was walking up 7th Ave. towards the Ziegfeld and I looked up and there he was walking towards me! He had just gotten a call for a job that minute and was just about to call me and say that he wasn't able to make it, but this way we got to spend a little time together as I walked him back home.

I didn't mind having to cancel because I had promised him a while ago that I would never get mad about him canceling if he got work because I know how much he needs to work, and I'd far prefer that to not making plans at all.

And I also didn't mind because I still got to see him and walk for fifteen or twenty minutes, so this whole happening to run into each other was a blessing. And yes, we were both going to the same place, but we were both also half an hour early and several blocks away from the theatre, so it was still a surprise.

So I had five hours to kill before rehearsal, and I decided to see Identity.

I was dying to see it since I first saw the trailer, and even the mediocre reviews didn't really change my mind. And I'm very glad of it, as I thought it was just swell! Lots of atmosphere and spookiness, sort of ghost-y, sort of serial-killer-y, it has John Cusack and Ray Liotta, I guessed some of the twists but not all, so that I felt smart but still was surprised at some things, I loved it!

The one funny thing, though, was when they were all wondering about whether they all had something in common, and I thought, "Well, they are all crappy drivers!"

Weirdly, there were four commercials before the show and three of them were brilliant and hilarious!

One was the one for TCM about the couple trying to buy tickets for "Visually Stunning But Ultimately Pointless Sequel", the second was the Matrix Powerade commercial and the third was the Cingular commercial called something like "Inappropriate Cell-phone Guy" that just made me die laughing.

And then were the trailers. And I haven't done Rate-a-Trailer™ in so long! It's time, eh?

Cabin Fever

A trailer filled with quick cuts and spooky music, but looking carefully, not all of the images that they showed were actually scary, like a stuffed bunny and a razor shaving a leg. Um, what? I can't tell what the hell this movie is about, but I'll lay odds that whatever happens, not much scary happens, if that was the best that they could do.

The Italian Job

This made me laugh, since one of the things in the "Visually Stunning But Ultimately Pointless Sequel" commercial was something about crappy useless remakes. This doesn't look awful, but any movie with not only Donald Sutherland and Seth Green but also Edward Norton would have to really suck ass for me to not want to see.

Pirates of the Caribbean

Okay, this is a movie made out of a ride, it's going to be awful! Or so I thought, because the trailer might be tricksy, but it makes it look as though it is actually good. It looks funny and with an interesting story, plus it has Johnny Depp in the most black eyeliner that I've seen since 1986. Man, I miss the 80's, boys in eyeliner everywhere.

SWAT

For some reason they aren't pushing what is for me the only reason at all to see this movie, that Jeremy from It Factor LA is in it! I think I glimpsed him in one of the extremely quick cuts, but I couldn't tell as a nanosecond isn't quite long enough for me to recognize him.

Underworld

A blatant Matrix rip-off, so blatant that I thought that it was a Matrix trailer until I realized that I didn't see Keanu Reeves anywhere. Know what? Don't care, I want to see it anyway! People jumping and kicking and twirling while wearing all of the vinyl and PVC and leather and rubber of a thousand fetish shops, I'm so there.

Then we had our last rehearsal before opening, unfortunately without Maria! And yes, that is the actress that we only just got back, but she was leaving work early because she was sick and almost losing her voice and she was going to take off work today, and I'd frankly prefer to not have her than to have her be really sick for the opening tonight.

It was a good rehearsal even without her, but man I am ready to open. This was like our eighth rehearsal, but I'm so spoiled with having short rehearsal periods that I get bored easily now.

When I got home I watched this great show on TCM called Complicated Women, which was just wonderful.

It was all about pre-code films and the actresses in them, and it was absolutely fascinating. I had no idea of the sexual freedom that was in these pictures, not to mention the women with careers and so on and how when the production code was adopted how not only was there no more sin without punishment, but there were no more careers without punishment either!

It was also cool to see all these old ladies talking about when they were young, but not in a far away kind of way, but very immediate. You could see who they were and it made sense that these were women who has sex, not gross like imagining Grandma getting laid.

Lenten entries missed:

Cameron both moved her site and started writing again! Hooray! At last! My God, who cares what she writes about, all that matters is that she is writing again. However, she did make a new portfolio, realize how much she likes being married, taught an American girl to bake apple pie, got a new pair of sandals, and tiptoed through the tulips.

Today's horoscope:
Virgo inspires confidence. Others follow your lead and assume that they, too, know what they're supposed to be doing. Wordplay delights someone that wasn't expecting a joke.

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