It's not the years. It's the mileage.

Just found out today that my friend who works on special effects is doing work on the new Indiana Jones movie! I have no idea what any of it entails. It's all hush hush and stuff, but I am so excited. Drooling to see it anyway, but now I have this flimsy (ok, lame) connection to it. I really need to move out to California.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the very first movie I ever became obsessed with as a kid. I had myself a fedora by the age of eight I think. I even wanted to be an archaeologist until I realized how boring that actually is, not at all adventure-filled, no whips, no idols. Still, I was a slacker student sleeping through most of high school but always managed straight A's in history. That's all because of Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones in the early years, Huckleberry Finn through my teens, and Kerouac by my twenties. Don't ask me how, but those guys made me who I am today.

I don't think it's gay to say that Ford looks damn good for his age. If I look as good as him when I'm — what is he 60? — I'll be happy. I don't even look that good now, but I'm hoping the wine effect will kick in (not liver damage, but ripening with age). Of course Indiana Jones the character is immortal.

Favorite Indiana Jones quotes: "It's not the years. It's the mileage." and "That's why they call it the jungle, sweetheart."