It's a gorgeous movie, and Toni Collette can SING! I never knew! She sings at least 2 songs solo in the movie (including Stand by Me) as well as the end credits song (Crowded House cover). Hah! What's with me discovering that these actresses I totally dig can sing, too?

Anyways, Yummie movie, worth seeing. If nothing else, for the loon in the end credits performing Wagner's Ride of the Valkyri on an accordion, with a piglet as audience. Heheheh.

• Toni Collette fan page

Other than that, I stayed up till 5.30 am reading. See I'd gotten this Stephen King book (Bag of Bones) at the library and well, it was only 516 pages and I really wanted to see if I could stretch-read it in one night. At one point I was sooo tired and said 'If the page I'm on is less than halfway through, I'll give up and sleep, if I've passed the half-way mark, I'll continue.' I checked how many pages the book had (516), checked the number of the page I had just started to read and saw it was page 259. Hah. A paragraph and a half into the latter half of the book. I read on.

It was rather spooky, I thought. I got plenty of nightmarish images in my head of drowning people in lakes. I cursed myself for having left a window hooked wide open because that meant everytime I looked up there was just this dark window there, starring at me. I don't know if I've ever mentioned it, but I have a really hard time with windows at night - my brain imagines all sorts of faces looking out/in. Heh. Luckily around 4 am the sky changed from pitch black to blue'ish with the rising sun and all.

So now I'm back here at the library. I decided to not just read things at random. Instead I want to learn about all those people I'm curious of. Hence I'm walking out of here with the first part of Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography, another biography on Samuel Beckett, and one on Bob Dylan. I got allll weekend.