Last night I went to see Snakes On A Plane. First, i have to say, I laughed my ass off. There is nothing funnier than watching a snake bite a guy's wenis. That's high quality humor there. It has everything you could want from a movie. Gratuitous nudity, completely outrageous death sequences, and Samuel L Jackson, does it get any better?

I finally finished reading The Fountainhead. I was disappointed by Ayn Rand's character development of Gail Wynand. In the beginning of the book he is this sleazy newspaper man who sells his soul to society and prints in his paper only what society wants to read. Which is of course smut, scandals, and the destruction of heros. However, you eventually discover the reason for this soul selling is b/c he doesn't find anything in the world worth living for. He is a driven intelligent man who is very similar to the main character (and hero of the story) Howard Roark. Upon meeting Roark and Dominique Francon he suddenly realizes there are things in life worth fighting for blah blah blah. So when Roark gets in trouble he uses his paper to come to his defense. He runs his newspaper into the ground fighting for what he believes in. Then, when he is finally given to choice to either retract everything he said, or close the paper he backs down and retracts everything. I really hate to see a character who seemed so promising suddenly collapse. Unlike the people in the story, i don't like seeing good men fall. Sadly, that's exactly what happened. In making this retraction, he also loses his sense of purpose, the only woman he ever loved, and his best friend. He also talked about how he was going to build the tallest skyscraper in New York as a tribute to his life. It would stand as a testament of all the things he had accomplished. At the end of the book, he still builds to tower, but instead he said he has nothing to build for, so Roark should build it as a testament to his own success.

How sad.

I'm heading out to California this week. I leave on Thursday morning, very early. I'm very excited!!!