wait....i thought this was supposed to be funny?

ok...so when did commedians go from being funny to being inspirational speakers? I rented Notorious C.H.O (margaret cho stand up special) yesterday and the last 15 minutes of her stand up is devoted to this rant about how the media effects women's self esteem, and gay rights...etc... now, i agree 100% about what she's saying, but i rented this movie to laugh my ass off...not to listen to her preach. I noticed this on the last ellen degeneres special too... why can they just stick to making people laugh? ok, sorry...that was really bothering me...i feel better now...

so this weekend has been nice and mellow...with the exception of babysitting friday and saturday nights it's been two days of beautiful weather (yay!! the damn rain is FINALLY gone), reading (right now i'm reading atonement by ian mcewen...very good, i highly recommend it)...and watching movies...i'm halfway through sylvia right now and i watched shattered glass last night, in which hayden christansen actually gave a fairly decent performance (notice i used the word fairly)...while he wasn't stellar it was at least better than star wars 1 & 2...

so anyways...sylvia so far is pretty good...i've read the bell jar and i had heard about her suicide, so i knew going in that she wasn't the most stable minded person..but this movie portrays her as this jealous, anxiety-filled person, tortured by her writing and her husband...i just wonder how accurate the portrayal is...i guess it's just nice to see gwyneth paltrow using her american accent again...