Gone Girl opens this weekend, and the press for it is pretty impressive. The “hype” as we like to call it PR circles, is high…. I mean seriously, everywhere I look this week, Gone Girl (or Frozen just because it’s Disney and it’s Frozen) is in the media.  I just watched Ben Affleck’s promo appearance on Jon Stewart — and it was good.  Although I have to say that I never thought of Ben Affleck as the lead male in Gone Girl. But he is.  Just like Tom Hanks was the lead in The DaVinci Code.  He was uber famous at the time, and so he therefore got cast in the part.  Not that I’m dissing Ben Affleck — I have grown to really appreciate and like him… but let’s face it, Matt Damon is the bomb.  Good Will Hunting?  OMG….  He was amazing.  And yes, so was Ben — but Matt killed that flick.  (I know, they both wrote it, but whatever.)  And after Good Will Hunting, Matt never took a bad turn — he just chose great films and friends — and after Minnie Driver, he didn’t have many major public embarrassments like Ben did.  (Remember Bennifer?)  No, once Ben shaped up and went back to being a serious person, getting together with Jennifer Garner, and emulating his best friend Matt with keeping some serious and well respected actors and friends in his life, he earned my admiration.  So yes, let’s just say I’m definitely a fan.  (But Matt will always be #1 to me in that duo.)

So… I read Gone Girl because Fucker gave me the book.  He apparently was reading it while I was in the hospital nearly dying of a brain aneurysm.  Friends witnessed him reading it, so he must have left it for me after he finished it.  Then when I got out of the hospital, it was one of many in the stack that people brought me to bide the time.  Little did they know I couldn’t read a damn thing while I was in the hospital or for months after that. That’s how sick I was!  Plus, don’t forget that my eyeball was soaked full of blood so I really couldn’t see out of my right eye, let alone read.  (I still can’t believe I actually went back to work with that eye and lived a good 6 months not seeing a damn thing but black squiggles before I decided to do something about that…)

Gone Girl was one of the first books I read when I was finally able to see enough to get through a page of text.  And I really liked it.  Fucker and I spoke about it as I was reading it and the story unfolded.  But now on the event of the movie launch this Friday, I am thinking to myself, “no wonder Fucker sat in the hospital reading it intently?”  That story is full of psychotic deceptions and twists and turns that no one would expect anyone to experience in life.  It’s totally him. He might as well be a character in that plot.  OMG. What a sick fuck!!!

So — I really want to see Gone Girl — but I also hate to go to movies.  They’re just a pain in NYC.  So crowded.  You have to get there like 45 minutes early.  People talk.  I really want to see it, but I also know it’s possible I might wait until it is available on demand so I can watch it in my apartment.  I prefer to see movies on my own so I don’t have to experience anyone else’s reaction to them.  There’s nothing like watching a movie you are hating when the person next to you is loving it — or vice versa….

Oh – and just to commemorate the week, just so you all know, tomorrow is Fucker’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Fucker! ….. NOT.

No really… tomorrow marks Fucker’s 41st birthday and one year from the last time I’ve set eyes on him.  I’m so glad that one year later, I feel confident that it was good riddance!  There’s definitely reason to celebrate! Yay!

Now, I’m also off to my third wedding celebration in a 4 week period of time.  As an old lady, I feel like that’s incredibly auspicious and great.  Three should be a charm! (But one and two were also pretty good.)

(OMG — as I’m finishing this post, there is an ad about Gone Girl on the television!!!! It’s inescapable!)

Catch you on the flip side…. Maybe. If I think of something to write again and actually do it……