*sigh.*

This entire thing began as a big "WTF!?" moment, on a Super 8 hotel bed.

I was on a small jaunt that wound 3 former 3M employees up in Madison, Wisconsin for a weekend. Joanna, Stephanie and myself stumbled into a conversation about the independent film Teeth. We spent a bout 20 minutes sifting through the wiki article, laughing about how ridiculous the plot was. It could have been that the article's author's writing style was just so dry that we interpreted it as sarcasm... I don't know. But let me sober the grin growing on my face. I'm mostly smiling because of badly we talked about that film before any of us had actually seen a frame of it.

It was good. Honestly--save for my low opinion of the cast's (in)ability to scream as if experiencing actual dismemberment--the movie was an interesting tale. I wish they'd gone into more awkward detail about the Dentata phenomenon, though. That angle was a hilarious way to validate this entire movie's premise. I'll be simple:
-If you sat through the entirety of this movie with the expectation of viewing an independent filmmaker's attempt at a horror experience, you were taken for a ride (and i can give you a great deal on this bridge).
-If you asked yourself "there's no way they're serious about this movie," when you read the NetFlix synopsis, you were probably laughing for most of the movie.

I didn't take much from this movie, excepting the following:
-i'll never raise my family near nuclear power facilities
-i was right; it truly isn't worth it to try and pursuade the Promise Ring crowd. At all.
-sex in a cave is never cool. nope, not even then.

GO RENT TEETH!! No wait... you should buy it. Why? Well cuz it, if left out in plain sight, is a sure way to break the tension the first time she comes over to your place.

Aside from all the jib-jab relating to the jack-in-the-box experience i had watching this film, i have a few other items that i wanted to mumble about:

First, a couple points expressing my renewed belief in my "gut instinct";
a. if something just "doesn't feel right," ask yourself why.
b. if you have to say to yourself, "stop being so weird about it," you probably developed the weirdness with good reason; investigate it.
c. if you develop a sudden sensitivity to the words "woulda," "coulda," or "shoulda," please heed them, for your own good.

Next, i finished my second read of the summer: Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk (author/screenwriter of "Fight Club"). That was a very interesting read. I learned that people can actually write like sociopaths. Who'd have thought? Well, it was a good, obscure, and abstract read with a somewhat awkward rhythm at times.