I watched Donnie Darko for the first time just now. It was really good.

I bought the DVD at CDWorld. I think the cashier may have been flirting with me (she was talking to me about what a great movie I was buying), but I was sort of withdrawn into my head at the time, so I wasn't really paying attention. I tried to reciprocate friendliness and sociability, though.

I wonder if girls feel bad when I don't hit on them or ask for their number when they put in the effort. If it's any comfort, ladies, I've only asked for numbers twice.

Those two times were with girls I was feeling lukewarm about.

When I really like someone, I'm thinking about it so much that I never remember to ask for the number.

I watched it with my brother and his friend. Even though demonic bunnies don't talk to me, his character hit a little too close to home.

When Donnie Darko was going to therapy, taking medication, and having people worry about him because he was acting weird, everyone who's watching the movie with me is thinking: "Wow, just like Jordan."

I do the same thing when I see movies with people. If I see a movie with a kid getting the shit kicked out of him by their dad, and I'm sitting next to someone whose dad beat the shit out them, I think "Wow, I wonder how x feels watching this right now."

Every time I'm at a movie with a rape scene, and I'm sitting next to someone who's been raped, I think the same thing.

Every time I see a movie suicide, and I'm sitting next to someone who had a someone close to them commit suicide, I think the same thing.

Pay attention when that happens. If something bad is happening in a movie, there's quiet. When it's hitting close to home for someone and everyone knows it, it's even quieter.

...and it's really really weird and uncomfortable when you're that person.