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My Toronto Film Festival structure is already starting to fall apart. I plan and organize and copy and paste like an obsessive accountant before I come here each year, and then it all goes to hell in a kind of tornado-like gale before the second day is through. I know which screenings I want to get to, but the interviews and parties and press conferences just seem to whirl around like debris. There's just not enough time in the day to see and do everything you want to do and write about it.
I saw four films yesterday (including Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats) and haven't tapped out a word about any of them. (Well, I did write about them this morning but the Bell internet re-booted after I'd written about ten graphs and I lost the whole friggin' thing.) All I'm planning to do now is stop by the Sony Classics dinner at Mirabelle, which starts at 7 pm. I'll post some fresh photos later this evening, and tomorrow is a new day.
Incidentally...I kind of hate it when I'm sitting alone at a cafe and a couple approaches and right away I start to discreetly eyeball the lady because she's exceptional looking, and right away the guy starts eyeballing me with an expression that says, "Whaddaya think you're doing?...she's with me, we're in love...look at somebody else!" Whenever that happens I look away for a second or two, not wanting to be rude or provoke anything, but then I resent myself for wussing out. It's okay to look as long as you're not obnoxious about it, I think. What's the guy gonna do?
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 11, 2009 at 2:51 PM
comment #1
Phatang!
says ...
It's tough, but you have to take the hit and feel like a wuss. It's one of the rewards of having a beautiful wife--you get to make other men feel small.
Posted by Phatang!
at September 11, 2009 3:28 PM
comment #2
Mr. F.
says ...
As long as you don't imagine the guy while in the middle of imagining the lady, alone in your hotel room later that night... it's all good.
Guys with hot women may look annoyed when they catch you eyeing their lady... but trust me, deep down they love it. It's a man thing.
Posted by Mr. F.
at September 11, 2009 3:38 PM
comment #3
matt cousens
says ...
Those men do love it, and they make men feel small to compensate for the fact that they know their wife is fucking someone else on the side.
Posted by matt cousens
at September 11, 2009 3:49 PM
comment #4
buckzollo
says ...
Wells of course you loved An Education. me too
Posted by buckzollo
at September 11, 2009 4:12 PM
comment #5
Glenn Kenny
says ...
Jeff, to quote Gang of Four: "You must be joking/oh man you must be joking."
And that goes triple for Phtang!, Mr. F., and M. Cousens. Phtang can hate on me all he wants for the rest of his and my life, and I can confidently laugh it off knowing he gets his philosophy of sexual relations exclusively from Dr. Hook songs. Oh, the hilarity...
Posted by Glenn Kenny
at September 11, 2009 6:34 PM
comment #6
Phatang!
says ...
Did I say something at all controversial? And, in doing so, did I inadvertently quote something or someone called "Dr. Hook"?
Posted by Phatang!
at September 11, 2009 7:04 PM
comment #7
televisiontears
says ...
Maybe I should start with the territorial stare-downs. I have the burden of being engaged to a very attractive woman, and since it's quite apparent that I'm definitely not the jealous type, she gets hit on all the time when we're out together. Not just stares or flirting - she gets fully hit on. It's only bothered me a few times, and I've politely said something to the gentlemen, but in that guy's defense, there is this 2001-ish base primal instinct that kicks in and you feel all "YOU NO LOOK! WOMAN MINE!"
But if you were just checking her out, I don't know what that guy's problem was. He should have felt proud.
Posted by televisiontears
at September 11, 2009 7:12 PM
comment #8
actionman
says ...
how were the goats?!?!?!?
Posted by actionman
at September 11, 2009 7:17 PM
comment #9
televisiontears
says ...
Glenn Kenny, that was staggeringly douche thing to say. Insulting someone's sexuality who you've never met on the internet reeks of overcompensation. You don't get to quote GOF. You can quote the Black Eyed Peas.
Posted by televisiontears
at September 11, 2009 7:24 PM
comment #10
The Playlist
says ...
This is kind of why i'm glad i'm not part of the film scene. I don't hang out at festivals, i don't go to parties. I see films, i see films, i write. That's the job. Everything else is a distraction. Prolly part of the reason i never get into them, but oh well.
Posted by The Playlist
at September 11, 2009 8:22 PM
comment #11
ZayTonday
says ...
Still no word on Goats, Wells?
Posted by ZayTonday
at September 11, 2009 10:59 PM
comment #12
hiviper
says ...
The guy's an insecure dick for giving you the evil eye for looking at his wife. If your wife is fine and other guys are looking, it's a compliment
Posted by hiviper
at September 12, 2009 12:02 AM
comment #13
Glenn Kenny
says ...
Televisiontears, you seem to have trouble making the distinction between "sexuality" (which I never brought up) and "philosophy of sexual relations" (which is an entirely different thing). Whatever.
The Dr. Hook record is "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman." It's catchy, but dumb.
Playlist, hold on, I'm right behind you...
Posted by Glenn Kenny
at September 12, 2009 7:18 AM
comment #14
JD
says ...
Jeff, you sound vaguely like Glenn Kenny's character in The Girlfriend Experience... but more of a wuss (obviously).
Posted by JD
at September 12, 2009 8:10 AM
comment #15
Phatang!
says ...
I wish I was "catchy but dumb". That guy sounds more fun to be around than I am.
Posted by Phatang!
at September 12, 2009 9:29 AM
comment #16
televisiontears
says ...
Don't know why I'm responding to this, but "philosophy of sexual relations" (my dick shrunk just typing that) and "sexuality" are a bit more than linked. Whatever, indeed.
Posted by televisiontears
at September 13, 2009 1:05 AM
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