That's what I'm waiting for, arent I?

I am here to inform you of the travesty that the Breakfast of Champions movie is. This movie is absolutely disgusting--not like gross, but its adaption from the book is disgusting. I know I constantly complain about the people who watch Harry Potter movies and need to exercise every minuscule detail to the point of death and are so fine-tuned to picking out flaws they can't even pay attention to the movie (#4, when I said the scene with the dragons was cool, and a friend I've mine took that as invitation into a long rant about how that was not in the book, and how every other detail that would have made the movie longer than your average city block was not in the book) but talk about raping Vonnegut's genius. He described it as "painful to watch", and he was right. Ugh. What I hated the most was that disgustingly sweet ending. Sure, he was arrested, but how cute, Dwayne's insanity has been destroyed because he loves his wife so much and he loves his son again, and his son loves him back even after his dad slammed his face into the keyboard key's and jammed him into the piano (Bunny's kinder than me. I'd never talk to my dad again if he did that. I might even kill him.) and Trout... I was so disappointed at that. I wanted to see that absolute despair--something wrenching and powerful. Something that would make me feel like my heart was breaking--which it absolutely did at the end of the book, because of what I imagined. (Does my love for that absolute desperation and hopelessness make me sick?)
But--this is where you'll think me to be really sick--I was disappointed Trout was "made young again". The reason why that scene is so powerful, I think, because he realizes that his life is just a plaything--it has been squandered for the... amusement seems too cruel, but it's the best I can do. For the amusement of Vonnegut. He doesn't want to die, he wants that ignorance back, he wanted to just be able to putter along again. But hell. in the movie it was just "oh, you're young again. Look, here's heaven! Let's go! lalalala..." ugh. NO. As I've said earlier, as desirable as happy endings can be, sometimes you need that grim twist of reality. Not only that, they never explained leaks and mirrors, so that bit was lost. Like when Trout hears some guy call the mirror a leak and looks shocked. That's awesome. Why does he care? Ugh. Stop I can't think about it anymore. Buy the book, burn the movie. And not illegally. I mean, in a fire pit.

My awesome friends threw me a coming-home party : ) I'm gonna sound like a huge mushy dork but hey. I thought it was really sweet. Honestly, I was really touched. I mean, I was happy to be hanging out with everybody, but when Meg said "yeah, this is supposed to be a welcome back party" I was like--you guys! Really!? I love you guys! *cries tears of joy in some corner because I really am a big mushy baby* Anyways. Thanks for putting that together, guys!!! I love you!!!

1/3 of the way through War and Peace...