13 July - Johnny Depp & Me

A sign of the times ie. ageing… on the way to see Pirates 2 or Dead Man’s Chest with friend’s daughter (her idea, I’d rather go and see Atomised, it may be a flawed film but I loved the Houellebecq novel) I text a friend that the movie is two and a half hours long and am not sure I can stand it. He replies ‘But it’s got Johnny Depp in it!’ To which I swiftly reply ‘Yes, but cynical and disabused of fanciful dreams as one becomes, I now accept he’s very happily married to the superior Vanessa Paradis and no longer believe that should we accidentally meet at a social event, he would find me irresistible and start a whirlwind romance. Once I stop believing that… I don’t fancy him anymore’
Ok the text was shorter but expressing this sentiment exactly. Ah well….