plano is a lot cooler of a city than i thought it would have been. it reminded me a lot of downtown madison, wisconsin... sans badgers.

the company was also more than pleasant. a special thank you to sx and cx for joining me in plano to see the new bob dylan movie, i'm not there.

it was pretty much fucking great. there were a few parts i disliked, and it was too long for me to sit still through... but fucking great.

it wasn't as biographical as i had predicted. some of the "events" that happened i believe were interpretive for inner battles and such... which was still fucking great. ((example... he didn't leave home at 11 to sing for woody guthrie on his deathbed... that was after he had graduated highschool and spent time in minneapolis, in and out of the U... i wish they would have shown a back-in-the-day dinkytown))

it depicts six stages of bob dylan's life through six different actors. one was cate blanchett. she was by far the best. she is doing a press interview in her opening scene. her voice sounded like a bob dylan voiceover and i wanted to jump in my seat. ((shutup, sx and cx, nobody has to know that i was actually jumping in my seat through almost the whole movie... THEY DON'T HAVE TO KNOW!!!!)) second best was christian bale who fucking rocked the overly-modest, shy and anxious side of early dylan. also, he's cute.

my favorite song reference ((which i barely caught and was crazy excited about)) was when richard gere dylan ((who i was not a big fan of, maybe because i didn't quite understand it... was it supposed to be napoleons dressed in rags??? i just thought of that... interesting... now i have to see it again...))

ugh.... gross... i was just distracted by a the tyrannosaurus rex and his new shirt and hat and hooded sweatshirt... and now i can't remember what my favorite part was...

yes, richard gere rides horseback into the raggedy circus town and he MET A YOUNG GIRL BESIDE A DEAD PONY!!!

i wanted to cry.

the alias thing kind of confused sx and cx.... jack rollins, woody guthrie, sonny, jude quinn... i was happy every time. they never used his real name.

oh so happy...

also, they took many famous dylan pictures and album covers and put the actors in those scenes. fucking genius! i'll try to find pictures and do a compare-contrast chart for you. due monday. ((but i'll turn it in late for partial credit))

also, last night was holy awkward 5000 and then he refacebook friended me... bleeeoorggghh!!!