Today at lunch I finished watching 2046.

It's a Chinese movie made by Wong Kar-Wai. It has Gong Li in it. She was recently voted the most beautiful person in China and there is currently 1.3 frikken billion contenders in China. Shallow men click here. She was in the excellent Memoirs of a Geisha and the absolutely stinker Curse of the Golden Flower. (Don't even rent it for a buck even to wish her boobs will pop out all over the place.) 2046 took four years to make. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle said he'd never work with Wong Kar-Wai ever again. Kar-Wai took the film back and re-edited it AFTER it premiered. The film showed at the Cannes Film Festival so last minute, some of the film cans came directly from the lab. It's an intricate and confusing film dealing with ideas like "All Memories Are Traces of Tears." It's worth it but only if you want a challenge.

Lots of people think I have a bad memory but I feel this is just another "why aren't you like me?" event. Here's the deal on how my memory works. "Past=Guilt, Future=Worry" That would put Prozac out of business and cure todays freak-out anxiety nation. Believe it or not, I consciously choose what to remember and forget. I don't remember movies, trivia, people's names, the storm when tying up the boat years ago or anything I don't think is really important. I don't trust people who can spout out facts from the past. That is not intelligence. What I concentrate on is the mood, my opinion, the situation of something. I remember the feeling of something. What's more important in the end: your name or how I feel about you right now?