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So tonight I watched an extremely different, quite aggravating and yet definitely "perversely interesting" (as Roger Ebert put it) indie movie called I Am A Sex Addict by Caveh Zahedi. It was on the new release shelf in Roger's Video; I had never seen it or heard anything about it. I picked it up based on the title and the back sleeve (and the fact that it was an IFC film).

What do I say about it? It certainly was interesting... and it jumped constantly between being humorously candid and annoyingly self-indulgent... But I mean, I guess it's basically an autobiographical piece on this guy's (Caveh) love life right? Of course it’s going to be that way, it's one person’s perspective I guess.

Anyway, here's a more direct link to the trailer on Apple trailers. My verdict? I'd say see the movie, even if you may end up just turning it off. I wanted to at some parts, but morbid curiosity just kind of kept me going and in the end, I don’t really feel worse for having seen it. The DVD extra scenes were pretty funny. There are two scenes where he and his girlfriend at the time (re-enacted for the film) take Ecstasy and mushrooms (on separate occasions) and it turns out they actually took both the drugs on camera and just filmed the scenes. The ecstasy one has some funny bits, but the shrooms one was nuts. I've never seen anyone on shrooms before (knowingly) so it was definitely interesting to see.

The movie made me think if I'm a sex addict. Hahaha yeah right, I'm almost 23 and still a virgin, I'm pretty sure I'm not. But it did leave me with a good, reflective quote though: “Everyone who comes into our lives is a mirror for something inside us that we're not seeing.” Now there's something to spend far too much time thinking about...

Speaking of good quotes... I found that Caveh has a blog that, well, he hasn't updated in about 5 months but he's posted some awesome quotes on there:

"Patience. n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here."
- John Ashbery

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
- Mark Twain

In fact, here's the whole post that went with that last quote. I found it quite amusing:

On Principles

When we were mixing the film, the sound mixer asked me if I wanted him to output a separate M & E (music and effects) track for dubbing. I told him I am philosophically opposed to dubbing.

He said: "What if someone wants to buy the film, but they only want it if it's dubbed?"
I said: "That's not an option. If they want it, they're going to have to subtitle it."

Recently, our foreign sales agent got an offer from Italy. They're offering us a significant amount of money, but they only want the film if they can dub it. In other words, no M & E track, no sale.

"Okay, fine," I said.