1. Head to the nearest waterfall/creek to soak in the water. Nevermind I had to swim around with a few other dogs, the jacuzzi like experience under the waterfall was worth it. Actually, it wasn't that great; the rocks under the opaque water were of different heights and you wouldn't dare kick around so much.
2. Drink tons of coke and totally gain back the sugars burnt off the day before.
3. Walk around half naked all day.
4. I didn't try this, but some people had a midnight car wash. To hose themselves more than the car.
5. Oh, we also entertained thoughts of the kind of reaction we'll get if one of us took off his shirt during class. Then another person could say aloud, 'You think this is Singapore?'
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Oh I forgot to mention that movies from all my favorite auteurs are coming out real sooooon. Of course, not all will live up to their promise. About half will be fawned over by critics. One will win Best Picture next year. [Other things: I need to watch The Prairie Home Companion.. and the Devil Wears Prada.. Meryl Streep double whammy. And A Scanner Darkly. And I don't get the deal with Pirates 2. I boycotted it. I don't remember enjoying the first one a real lot-- besides Johnny Depp, it didn't have much going for it... Also, Lady in the Water. Everyone oohs and ahhs at M Night Shyamalan's brand name, but isn't his last good movie The 6th Sense? An article I read talks about his egomania, and how everyone in hollywood is hoping for this movie to sink. I'll see.]
Anyway, the film experience has a list of the most anticipated movies of 2006. There's some power casting in here. Get excited. Yeah, the more exclamation marks you see, the more psyched I am.
- Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers. WW2 film. (Jamie Bell)
- Woody Allen - Scoop. It seems to be a comedy. Scarlett is hotness personified. ( Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane)
- Todd Haynes of Far From Heaven - I'm Not There, a Bob Dylan film (Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams. Julianne Moore!)
- Sofia Coppola! - Marie-Antoinette (already booed at Cannes though. And Kirsten Dunst is urghly)
- Brian DePalma of MI:1- The Black Dahlia (Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank! Aaron Eckhart)
- Mel Gibson - Apocalypto
- Danny Boyle of 28 Days Later - Sunshine (Cillian Murphy! Michelle Yeoh, Chris Evans)
- Steven Soderbergh - The Good German (George Clooney, Cate Blanchett!! I love Cate. Tobey Maguire)
- David Fincher of Fight Club/Se7en - Zodiac (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Gary Oldman, Chloe Sevigny)
- Todd Field of In the Bedroom - Little Children (Jennifer Connelly! Kate Winslet!)
- Christopher Nolan!!! - The Prestige. Nolan hasn't made any movie that is less than good, has he? The trailer looks incredible; the cast, impeccable. (Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie)
- Darren Aronofsky of Pi/Requiem for a Dream - The Fountain. Trailer hints at its ambition. (Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn)
- Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko!!! - Southland Tales. Weird cast, this one. But there's SMG! (The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Mandy Moore, Kevin Smith, Bai Ling?? Christopher Lambert)
- Pedro Almodóvar of Bad Education - Volver. One of my favorite directors ever. Trailer. (Penelope Cruz)
- David Lynch of Mulholland Drive- Inland Empire. I will probably not understand this movie. (Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons)
- Christopher Guest - For Your Consideration. This is about the Oscars and it has major buzz surrounding it. (Ricky Gervais, Parkey Posey, Christopher Guest)
- Alejandro González of 21 Grams - Babel (Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal!)
- Michel Gondry of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - The Science of Sleep. Expect the usual Gondryesque visual inventiveness. Trailer. (Gael Garcia Bernal)
- Steven Shainberg of Secretary - Fur (Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr)
- Bill Condon of Kinsey - Dreamgirls. Trailer. (Jamie Foxx, Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson)
- Douglas McGrath of Emma - Infamous. What, Capote redux? Comparisons are bound to arise. (Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Daniel Craig, Isabella Rossellini)
- Alfonso Cuaron!!! - Children of Men (Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor <- that Serenity bad ass)
- Marc Foster of Finding Neverland - Stranger than Fiction (Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson)
- Robert DeNiro - The Good Shepherd (Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, Billy Crudup)
- Ryan Murphy of Nip/Tuck - Running with Scissors (Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow)
- Martin Scorscese - The Departed, or Infernal Affairs (Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin)
- Steve Zaillian - All the King's Men. Hot cast. (Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Ruffalo)
