friend envy

sara and i used to talk about how when we were little and even now there's people you want to be your friend super bad and you dont even know them but you figure it'd be super nice and they'd call you up on the phone and you'd go get a cup of coffee and they'd tell you things that had nothing to do with why you had friend lust for them in the beginning like talking about their dog or something they saw on tv about sea creatures.

and i really wish charlie kaufman were my friend.
and its silly that they mention in his biography that he went to school with Christopher Columbus. I dont know, its weird to think about his stuff and then home alone.

and this is mostly for liz and every interview i read of his changes the way i feel about things and not because its horribly spiritual or emotional but its on a plate this is this is this and it never is supposed to be about what i associate it with but it kind of just wraps itself exactly the way its supposed to be exactly the way it is. and he never leads onto elaborate references; i feel like if you asked him something about Alexander Pope he'd mumble and probably change the subject and kind of think that was annoying.

"this character which is like the free-spirited, kooky woman who only exists in order to teach man how to live" and i feel like that was russia.

"We all create the world outside of us. Parallel to the thing I was saying about time—this is a very subjective experience, being alive. You’re constantly interpreting and reinterpreting and trying to figure out “The Story.” You’re trying to figure out the story of me, and I’m trying to figure out the story of you and somehow incorporate that into my understanding of the world. We tell stories, as people. [But] I don’t think, if you stepped back from people, there are any stories. I don’t think the world really exists that way. It’s the way our brains work, it’s the way we try to organize input."

and all of this is totally cheesy but i really like charlie

"I wanted to build a casino in Las Vegas called Las Vegas, Las Vegas. Like the idea of Paris, Las Vegas (the real life casino) is that you don’t have to actually go there — their campaign is something like ‘all the best of Paris without the French people.’ So then (with Las Vegas, Las Vegas,) there’s the idea that you don’t actually have to go to Paris, Las Vegas either because there’s a replica of all of Vegas—including Paris, Las Vegas—within this other casino. So you get even more safe by not having to go out into the strip at all. I thought that would be a pretty successful resort."

also someone called him "so meta" and thats reason enough to want to be his friend weather or not he actually is "meta" and whatever that even really means anyway