I’ve had this movie from Netflix for three months.  I rented it back when the teacher and I were going out because it seemed a useful means of luring him back to my apartment.  HA!  BOY WAS I WRONG Tonight, in a moment of non-bitter peace I opened the dusty red Netflix sleeve and watched ”The Class” with a pomegranate for delicious, far-better company.

I’ve been sitting on a gold mine — all this time and I could’ve been watching it.  It is so good.  You should rent it.

(ISAAC, MELANIE, ROB and JOE are having martinis for ISAAC’S birthday at Bar Centrale.)

MELANIE: Is that Sienna Miller at the table next to us?
ISAAC: Yep.
JOE: Maybe Jude Law will show up.

(They continue their lovely, leisurely conversation until, like a beacon of light, Jude Law appears in the entryway.)

ISAAC: Oh my god.

(They all silently watch him take a seat at the table next to theirs.)

ISAAC: He is breathtaking.
MELANIE: Gorgeous.
JOE: It’s a birthday miracle.
ISAAC: (to JOE) You’re a conjurer. Now do Sarah Jessica Parker!

FIN.

He’s a dreamboat:

Through a combination of Lauren’s request and my insistence I volunteered to make a mix of Joni Mitchell songs for her son Jacob, who’s a baby.  Last night I poured myself a glass of wine and spent my last evening of being 25 making the CD.

How do you introduce a baby to the contributions Joni Mitchell has made to the world?  The playlist was four hours long after my first (conservative) pass.  By the time I had a second glass I was tearfully singing along with my head hanging off of the bed, and I realized that Jacob might grow up to the most worldweary child ever.  So I whittled it down and tried to keep it relatively upbeat.

Here’s the final list:

1. “Night in the City” (Song to a Seagull)
2. “Cactus Tree” (Song to a Seagull)
3. “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” (For the Roses)
4. “Woman of Heart and Mind” (For the Roses)
5. “Big Yellow Taxi” (Ladies of the Canyon)
6. “Woodstock” (Ladies of the Canyon)
7. “All I Want” (Blue)
8. “Little Green” (Blue)
9. “California” (Blue)
10. “The Circle Game (Live)” (Miles of Aisles)
11. “Help Me” (Court and Spark)
12. “People’s Parties” (Court and Spark)
13. “Coyote” (Hejira)
14. “Amelia (Live)” (Shadows & Light)
15. “Night Ride Home” (Night Ride Home)
16. “My Best to You” (Taming the Tiger)
17. “Sunny Sunday” (Turbulent Indigo)
18. “Both Sides Now” (Both Sides Now)

It’s a good primer.  I didn’t get too far into  Hejira and Turbulent Indigo territory, which I actually love more than her early stuff, but I figure I can save those intense musical life lessons for when he’s five.

(ISAAC is riding the Bolt Bus back to New York from Boston. The bus has been sitting in traffic on Ninth Avenue for the last forty minutes.  A young high school-aged BOY and GIRL are sitting directly behind him, and love luv is blossoming.)

GIRL: What’d you do last summer?
BOY: Um, I worked at this, uh, camp.
GIRL: Like, what, like a sleepaway camp?
BOY: No, like a day camp.
GIRL: Like for how many days?
BOY: Five days a week for seven weeks.
GIRL: Five days?!  Like for how many hours?
BOY: Um, it was like 7 to 5.
GIRL: Oh my god — did you ever get to, like, hang out with your friends?
BOY: I mean, yeah, I hung out with the other counselors.
GIRL: No, but, I mean, like, did you hang out with your regular friends?
BOY: Well, some of them are my regular friends.  But, like, we had the weekend and stuff, too.
GIRL: No, but, I mean, like, you didn’t get to see your regular friends during the day.
BOY: No, I was working.
GIRL: I’ve never had a job.  I don’t want one.  I just don’t want to work, you know?
BOY: Yeah, I mean, this was my first job.
GIRL: So you had, like, two friends last summer.
BOY: No, I had other friends, I just didn’t see them because I was working.
GIRL: No, but do you know what I mean?  Like, you only had, like, two real friends.
BOY: Um, OK.  Yeah, maybe.  Although we hung out on the weekends.
GIRL: I don’t think I could, like, ever go without seeing my friends.  Like, I love my friends so much.  Even my guy friends, like, I couldn’t imagine not seeing them, like, ten times a week, you know?  Oh my god, I’m gonna cry.
BOY: I don’t know.  It was fine.
GIRL: Plus I do stuff during the day over the summer.  I go swimming, I go to the movies, I go hang out at my friend Ben’s house.  He has a pool with a slide.
BOY: Awesome.  I love slides.
GIRL: Did you go to the shore?
BOY: For, like, a weekend.
GIRL: See, I went to the shore for a week.  You only go to to go for a weekend?
BOY: It was fine.  We threw parties at camp.
GIRL: That’s so sad.  You know what I mean?  Like, didn’t you miss your friends?
BOY: I don’t know.  I’m just ready to go to college.
GIRL: Oh, I know, totally.  Me too.

(Beat.)

GIRL: Haha.  Sometimes I just laugh for no reason.  Like, I think pretty much everything is funny.  Did you see Borat?
BOY: I saw, like, part of it.
GIRL: That’s my favorite movie.
BOY: Yeah, uh, it seemed pretty funny.
GIRL: I asked Josh about you.
BOY: You did?
GIRL: Yeah.  I asked him what he knew about you, like, if you were cool and stuff.  He said he didn’t know you, really.  And I was like, “Come on, you share a locker with him!”
BOY: You were stalking me.
GIRL: Oh my god, no I wasn’t!  I’m totally kidding.  I was so not stalking you.
BOY: Yeah, yeah, sure.
GIRL: Oh my god, no!
BOY: I’m kidding.
GIRL: Oh, okay, good.  Because I could’ve stalked you but I didn’t.

FIN.