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Finally saw "Boogie Nights" today. I liked it more than I expected, but the "moral" was confusing. Everyone spins out of control and becomes miserable and desperate and unlikable and then they all just get a second chance and end up happy? I'm all for the happy ending, but why judge the characters so harshly for most of the film?

Can't wait to see "THE WOLFMAN" on Monday. Will most likely be disappointed and be angry about the fact that it somehow disrespects the original Lon Chaney, Jr./Claude Raines version, but I am going in with a great attitude.

Just got back from the Diane Birch concert at Skirball. Amazing and breath-taking and great. Best concert I have been to in a long, long time. Probably the best since one of the three Joanna Newsom concerts or two Sigur Ros concerts I have been to. The opening act was some NYU student who was such an atrocious singer that I spent the whole time wincing and pitying the kid's roommate. But Diane was friendly and funny and captivated the whole room. Her four-piece band was also great and everything about the concert was great. The live versions of the songs were in almost every case more exciting than the album versions, and she played a solo version of the the trance song "What Is Love?" (from "A Night at the Rosbury") on the electric keyboard that was incredible as well.

For the record, here is an updated countdown of the Prettiest Women Ever:

Diane Birch
occupation: musician
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead
occupation: actor
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Vanessa Victoria Volpe
occupation: writer, student
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