Yesteday was my birthday. I’d gone to bed naked so I could wake up in my birthday suit, just the way I’d been born. Then, to celebrate, I worked. I figured that represented what my life is about: I got to be a writer for the day. In the evening, I met with my friend Sergio, and we talked about writing and the meaning of life (like, seriously) over a pint. I wanted to meet with a friend and, rather than doing the freak-out birthday thing of getting all depressed about how old I am and what life I should be having instead, I acknowledged the life that I do have, and the things that I have done. And you know, thirty-five is pretty cool. I’ve done a lot of neat stuff that I’m proud of, and I love my life.<\/p>\n
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\nI just deked out to my doctor’s office to have blood taken. They took six vials of the stuff, which was fine, but by the time I was leaving, I felt woozy and had to sit down for a bit until — I guess — my body made up the difference or balanced something. It made me realise how unrealistic action movies are. “It’s okay, I’ve just been shot through the shoulder, but I can finish running around and fighting until the climax of the movie is over and the ambulance comes.” No way. If the hero lost than a little bit of the stuff, he’d be throwing up and falling down like a little girl. (You know, little girls that throw up and fall down — one of those.)<\/p>\n
*** The friend who called was Tim Howar. We go back a long way, and now we’re both over here in Britain. He’s rehearsing a show now based on Rod Stewart songs which will be opening on the West End in London at the end of November. I’m going down to see him, a) because he’s my bud, and b) because he’s going to rock in it. He is one of the most singularly talented people I’ve ever known. I’ve been very lucky that way, meeting folks who are not only good people, they’re also very good at what they do.<\/p>\n
\nOh. Funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time: the intro to the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. It’s a spoof on “The Matrix:Reloaded”, and last night I played the audio over the phone to an old friend and we were crying laughing about it. Of course, he’d called me at 1AM when I was asleep, so I wasn’t completely compos mentis<\/em> to begin with. Find it, download it.<\/p>\n