January 9th - rewatching The Diving Bell and The Butterfly- play by play- dont' read this if you haven't seen it

it's devastatingly beautiful.

My favorite line:(32:15) "Hold fast to the human inside of you, and you'll survive."

Henriette is a beauty bombdiggity. She reminds me a little bit of one of my singer-songwriter friends, Alli Collis. I really liked it when she lost her cool and started lecturing to Dauby. Soo good.

And the guy who put the Russian snow hat on Bauby. He's pretty awesome. I liked how he is introduced, with the toy motorcycle that he catches off the table. And then when he starts reading the alphabet is soooo good.

"Two things that aren't paralyzed: my imagination, and my memory".

Mon dieu. The actress who plays Claude Mendible, the girl who takes dauby's dictation, is beautiful. Maybe even more beautiful than Henriette? hmm...

Wait..the girl who plays Empress Eugenie, wife of Napolean III...she's friggin gore -jizz. WTF, French cinema people? What are you trying to do to me?

Bauby's monologue, when he starts dictating to Claude, is so good..and then when his friend started to read Honore de Balzac to him....gives me the chills. Perfect music, perfect emotion, perfect scene.

The scene afterwards, where the dudes install the telephone...I was laughing too, before he started laughing. I wonder if that makes me a bad person.

Holy vegetarian cow..Marie is like the hottest cougar I've ever seen in cinema. The French are even beautiful when they get older. That's just not far.

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whoa...Bauby's ex-wife is maganda too. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, it's not fair..

oh shoot...I remember seeing her in a French movie year ago when I was in Paris. She played this French pop star.....the funny thing is, the movie didn't have any English subtitles, so the friend I was with (who also didn't speak French) just sat through the whole movie, watching without really understanding what happened.

C'est La Vie.

That meal scene, where he dines with Claude. Damn...I totally want to do that in real life. It has to be with the right bombdiggity muffincake, though.

I liked how he got all pensive in the dinner table right after..he's such a good actor.

His interaction with Marie and the priest is a great scene. I love how the background looks..

The next scene that introduces him going to Lourdes, with one of his girlfriends and her flying hair, is awesome..it's so simple, yet that's how I feel sometimes when my windows are down in the car, and I'm blasting music. I feel like a 20 sum sum actress in a French movie going to Lourdes. C'est magnifique.

That's funny too, with the whole "I can't make love with her watching". I used to have this picture of a painting of the Savior in my bedroom at my rent's house, and I sometimes would really resist my adolescent hormonal bombs as much as I could because of the pic. You never want to do anything naughty if Jesus is watching you. Or I think that's how I rationalized it..did it work? I would say, about half the time. Sometimes I would just turn the picture around.

oh my...when Princess Eugenieand Bauby...anyway....I think one of new wishes in life is to travel back in time to 1870's France and make out with a French socialite. This is totally plausible.

Wow..the whole part about Bauby talking to his dad over the phone...priceless...

And Claude's gift to him on the boatride. "Jean-Do, I don't mind you dragging me down to the bottom of the ocean...because you also are my butterfly..."It's a heart melter for singer-songwriter boys. Oh..if only someone only said that to me. Then I would be like "You stole that from that movie, you algebra major!"...

Damn...that scene with Ines and Celeste...I'm glad they kept it in. It's such a truthful scene. Celeste's face, when she spells out his wishes, is one of the most beautiful moments in cinema. It's like every letter, her heart gets pummeled, pounded to the ground..but what can she do? She loves him....and so does Ines...

oh man...when he starts to sing...and what happens afterwards...I love the last couple of minutes or so of the movie, when the voices become dull, and the cinematography is breathtaking...I do have to comment though on the last song choice, while the ice caps were reassembling;the song blows chunks. What up, genius filmmaker? I hate your film now.

I'm only kidding, Mr. Schnabel. Your movie was awesome. Thanks for blowing my fi&*ng mind.