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Friday, September 09, 2005 thought it was interesting what andre agassi said the other night after his gruelling, point-by-point comeback win against what's-his-face. the win of a true champion. what's his face just creamed him in first two sets, then broke his service in the third. i was watching the game, I left to go out at about 11:15, I thought it was over. when I came back at 1, Pam was watching, and I'm like "That game's still on?" andre had battled back, then won in a tiebreaker. and as he said afterwards, it wasn't like the other guy lost the game, he didn't fall apart he played very well right up until the end. but andre took it from him. he has to win. when they shook hands after the game the guy said to andre, "Hey, that was great I didn't care who won I was just glad to be in the game." agassi looked at him like the was speaking a foreign language. reminded me of mase's classic line (to me, anyway) "It's kinda like you be talking funny/I don't understand people who got short money." In other words, Mase is saying, the words that come out of the mouths of poor people are just gibberish to him. similarly, agassi seems mystified by comments from people who don't win at tennis. he listens politely, but...beat him at tennis, then he'll understand what you're saying. but his comments after the game have snuck up on me, as a profound metaphor for life, or at least the moment of life I find myself in: he said he realized when he was two sets down and his serve broken in the third "I thought, 'this is ridiculous. I can't be knocked out an hour and twenty minutes into the game.'" so, he says, he decided just to stay in the game for as long as he could. and that allowed him to relax and play hsi game: the notion that he just wanted to stay in the game for a respectable amount of time before getting knocked out. that's my new mantra. I'm not going to worry about whether I win or lose. I'm just going to try to stay in the game a little while longer because it's embarrassing to get knocked out after only two books and some articles. anyone who watched that game knows: they were watching a champion. Thursday, September 01, 2005 I should have mentioned this before-- havne';t been a good blogger lately-- but "wedding crashers"...well, I know a lot of people liked it. but I had two questions coming out of that movie: 1) how dumb do they think we are? 2) how dumb are we? the real clue was the "artistic" character-- I should say caricature-- that pops up in the second act. he was like something out of a children's puppet show that you boo and hiss. Ludicrous. Insulting to the intelligence. "40 year old Virgin" was better, but also really quite a bit too broad for me, in spots. the scene that was in all the trailers was the best, the wittiest, where his friend tells him to ask girls questions and he's talking to a sexy bookstore clerk and she says "we have a good do-it-yourself section" and he says "do *you* like to *do it yourself*" funny. but wedding crashers...please. vince vaughn's celebrated "riffs" were actually dumb and he looked rambling and kind of...ill. he does not look eaxctly well, these days. and there was something about owen wilson-- whom I normally love-- I mean, I loved him in Shanghai Noon with jackie Chan, seriously I thought he was perfect and very charming-- but there was something about the way his blonde bangs now hang oh-so-perfectly over his eyebrows that's making his charm seem calculated, and charm is the antithesis of calculation, I believe that truth to be self-evident. speaking of wedding crasher I think it's cool Rachel McAdams is living in toronto. she's actually over the hump of stardom so she doesn't even have to move to L.A. As fgar as I know, she is the first star of her magnitude to actually stay here while plying her hollywood trade. of course, now that I've said that she'll probably move. n.b. to Torontonians let's not bug her while she's here.
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