Reviews: film, dressing rooms

Film
I had never seen Ghost World. How could that have been? What an utterly Necessary film. I feel about it the way 30-year old jewish men from new york city with intellectual parents feel about The Squid and the Whale.

Just to be clear, The Squid and the Whale sucked. To me. Nothing ever HAPPENED in the film. It just introduced some characters, and then there they were, all gross. You never get to watch them do anything really worth watching (like ride a motorcycle, or fight an alien).

Ghost World is a little more plot driven, but not much. basically nothing happens. I just liked it because i'm a 32-year old jewish woman from the suburbs with irrelevant parents.

and it was a comic book movie (best kind). plus scarlet johansson is so damn hot, even then, and thora birch is too, although she's costumed in unflattering lines.

Dressing Rooms
The other day i went speed shopping. I entered 3 or 4 dressing rooms in about 45 minutes. Here's what i noticed: the nicer the store, the crappier the dressing room, and the less security there is in the dressing room. Macy's has barely-standing stalls in a messy back room and no one on staff. The Gap has decent stalls with doors and someone directs you to an empty one. Daffys (where i got a fabulous stripy thing) has well-lit little private rooms and a staff person who counts your clothes and gives you a cartoonishly big tag that you fear might burst ink all over you at any moment. I plan to enter a few more over the next couple days. I wonder if the pattern will continue.