I suppose I should begin this new entry by explaining its title. If anyone's seen the movie Donnie Darko, that person would already be one step ahead of everyone else who hasn't in terms of understanding the title of this weblog. You see, this is just a great great movie that everyone should get a chance to see. It's an independent film that was produced by Drew Barrymore's company Flower Films. Aside from being a co-producer, she also plays Donnie's high school English teacher. Now before you all run away screaming at the sight of Drew Barrymore's name, let me assure you that this film is nothing like any of the movies Barrymore has been involved in before. Donnie Darko is a film that you will watch many times trying to figure out what the message of the movie actually is (and it's very obvious from watching it that there is, indeed, a message it's trying to convey). The funny thing is that I've forced many of my friends to watch this movie, and I've been amazed at the variety of interpretations I've heard about what the movie's actual message is. Simply put, watch it. You'll be amazed. That aside, the reason I titled my weblog "cellar door" is because my favorite line in the movie is actually said by Drew Barrymore. After she's fired from the high school, it cuts to a scene where she is talking to Donnie alone in her classroom. She has all her stuff packed up, and the words "cellar door" are written on the board behind her. Donnie asks "what's cellar door?" She replies "this famous linguist once said 'of all the phrases in the English language...of all the endless combinations, cellar door is the most beautiful.'" I've been trying to figure out who this linguist is because I think he or she may be right. In my opinion, it is not the word itself that gives off a meaning or beauty; it is actually the impact said combination of words has on a person's perception of what the object, idea, issue, belief, and whatever else that word is identifying. So what's so special about a cellar door then? Well, just think of the endless possibilities behind that door. In the movie, this combination of words becomes central, which made the movie even better for me. A cellar door has behind it endless memories that are attached to some one person, some one family, something else outside of the cellar. The possibilities of what exactly is contained behind that door are endless, and I'm pretty sure that's what that famous linguist was referring to when he or she said it was the most beautiful.

Staring at a ghost across a table set for two, This is the last call before the credits roll. The charm of silver screen depression saturated in alcohol It's so seductive Filtered through tobacco haze. It's so fucking intoxicating, The way they glimmer through the grain and make dysfunction such a fashion. Jimmy Stewart suicidal_sex_appeal. The alcoholic is the last true hopeless romantic. Stumbling and smelling of stale gasoline, Making James Dean speeches to an empty room. Audrey left some lipstick on her cigarette in the ashtray With a note scrawled on a napkin saying "This is glamour" This is where Hollywood cues the delusion That everything looked this blue through Sinatra’s eyes. What America needs is another worthwhile overdose. Celestial bodies constructed on set, Destined to explode in the headlines. Another dry martini and a methamphetmaine. Godspeed Norma Jean, I hope you saved us one last sleeping pill play it again For me. The tragedy of a track marked beauty queen. The starlet in the magazine. She looks all right to me. She looks so good to me. But there's something in the way she moves, like I want to. Make me want you. Tonight I feel like fame, dreary and estranged. I'd scratch through glass not to be without you.