I think I zoned out in front of this bloody screen for an hour. Feels like it.

Sadly, the goddamned speakers aren't working for some fucking reason, but that's ok, 'cause I've got Aaliyah's "Try Again" rolling around in my head.

Speaking of Aaliyah (singer & co-star of "Romeo Must Die" w/Jet Li), she's dead. In a plane crash. Over the Bahamas. According to MTV.com, she'll star in "Queen of the Damned" (which will not feature Tom Cruise) and in the two "Matrix" sequals, both of which will go through the roof, box office-wise. The former has already wrapped (I didn't even know they were making the fuckin' thing) and I can only imagine she's finished all her shooting for the latter since we're tlking about four months ago, now, and they were filming "Matrix 2" and "3" back-to-back.
For some reason it's midly disturbing that she was nearly two years younger than me, though I'm not sure why. Probably that whole, "haven't done shit with my life" concern that sits in the back of my brain.
Still, at least she wasn't shot. That would've been an exceedingly unpleasant media circus...