Electrolicious

I enjoyed the flick, but this review is spot-on.

The movie Juno was just fine, but I’m definitely intregued by Diablo Cody, the screenwriter. This interview with her is rad, for reasons that have very, very little to do with the movie:

But there’s one bit of advice I have that is going to make me sound like a douche bag. And that is, when you’re in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don’t care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it’s over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I’m lazy. If I show up to a meeting in flip-flops, it makes me seem extremely appealing for some reason. But it wasn’t something I orchestrated. I just didn’t feel like putting on regular shoes.

It just makes me so happy that a woman with a brain and a sense of humor that I totally click with is finally writing movies in Hollywood.

My entire life I’ve been told I wasn’t pretty enough. My entire life I was told by people that I was ugly, that I was too tall, that I was flat-chested, that I was this, that I was that. Suddenly I achieve something in my life that is purely intellectual and purely creative, and I’m being told that it’s because I’m pretty. To me that is the weirdest, most ironic thing ever. Like all of a sudden I’m attractive when it suits people’s purposes. But in the past when I needed to be attractive I was ugly. So let’s pick. Which is it?