Interestingly, I came across another blog because it mentioned Jesse Schoem. I don't know John, but he knows Jesse, so I guess we're just one degree of separation apart. A couple of months ago, when somebody was talking about the whole six degrees of Kevin Bacon meme, and as it turned out, there's only one degree of separation between me and Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler. What a depressing and surreal sandwich.

Reading John's blog -- and I've been looking at quite a few these days (rather than writing this one) -- I got the feeling that I knew him. Kind of superficial, eh? It's probably the same kind of feeling that you get with a favorite actor or some other celebrity. In the case of an actor, it's usally some character or the sum of many that you feel that you know. And so it is with blogs: read somebody's journal entries and instant understanding of some unknown, unseen person. I really wouldn't have thought of this, if it weren't for the fact that we have a mutual friend. That somehow made John more real than the usual blogger type.

I feel about this blog the same way I do about my new libretto project and my old film project: procrastinatory. We'll just have to see if I can make it through an entire month, without missing a daily entry.

I watched Insomnia on DVD last week and liked it in a guilty pleasure, Hollywoody sort of way. When I looked it up, I surprized that it was a remake of a Norwegian film. What is it about the American movie industry? They've been remaking films since the teens of last century. Shooting books, lensing plays, what have you. Oh, well.