There’s something people should know about me. I have this thing, a personality trait, if you will. I do not like to let something lie when I know I’m right. And the stupid part is that I’m not talking big issues. I’m talking little nitty-gritty issues that don’t really matter.
Tonight after watching Crash over at Matt’s, we somehow got into a quick debate about an actress in the movie Traffic. The room said “it’s Julia Stiles.” I said “no it’s not, it’s a girl who looks a lot like Julia Stiles.” The room insisted, “no, it’s Julia Stiles. Look, here’s the box with a tiny picture of her. See? Julia Stiles.”
“No,” I said. “It’s the girl that looks like her.”
At this point everyone looked at me laughing, and became extremely insistent that they had seen something about it on TV and it was definitely Julia Stiles. “The girl who looks like Julia Stiles?” they asked laughingly. “Yes,” I said. “Her name is Erika something. Erika Christian, or Christianson, something like that.” But alas, I could not convince anyone of this.
At that point, since I haven’t actually seen Traffic, I decided to just let the debate die, even thought I was 100% certain it was not, in fact, Julia Stiles.
So I came home. And I wasn’t going to look it up, I really wasn’t, but I just couldn’t help it! See, I have this thing, as I said, that if I’m sure I’m right, I can’t let it die! So I looked it up.
I was right. It’s not Julia Stiles. It’s Erika Christensen. Who looks a lot like Julia Stiles. Look it up.
God, I’m so neurotic and petty and an ex-Entertainment Editor.
But right!
phbbt :p
Where would we be without imdb?
I have the same problem and it is always about stuff that I *should* let go, but don’t. For example, when using the music sequencer do you turn on the electric piano first or the sequencer? I just read the manual, so I knew it was sequencer first and was argued down by the high school director presenting. I went up to him during a break and showed him the manual. Petty? Yes. But I was right darn it and I wasn’t letting it go.
IMDB rules.
Yeah, I looked it up when I got home last night too. I guess the VH1 show that Jen watched just assumed… stupidly, I guess. Do you know there are entire web pages devoted to telling the difference between Julia Stiles and Erika C?
Oh, I figured Jen just remembered the show wrong. Didn’t know there were webpages, but I’m not surprised. It’s an honest mistake — they do look a lot alike.
Ha. Me too. And I love that movie.
I definately didn’t remember the show wrong, they must have been just as fooled as me. For the record, I also thought Julia Stiles was in Swimfan, which is also apparently this Ericka-chick.
Thats just like the time I got laughed at by a bunch of people because I said something about Peter Gabriel being in Genesis. Ohh they laughed and laughed. They said I was confusing Peter Gabial with Phil Collens.
Who has the last laugh now!