Why are you shaking? I don't know. I think I'm happy.

We're only going to say this once: Say Anything... is the best Hollywood romance since Casa-frickin'-blanca. (Or Notorious!, which has a harder title to frick up.) It does for Seattle in the '80s what Bogie's film did for Vichy-held Morocco: makes it look like the coolest place on earth to be hopelessly in love.

Lloyd Dobler's buy/sell/process monologue is the second-longest piece of movie dialogue Seattlest can quote from memory, after Robert Mitchum's little story of right-hand/left-hand from Night of the Hunter. Which just goes to show that sure, we may have our sappy side, but we've also got a psycho streak.

During wet weeks, we've been known to mention that "the rain on my car is a baptism," which inevitably confuses everyone within earshot, including people who've seen the movie.

It's John Cusack's greatest role ever, proobably because of the wetness factor. As Matt Zoller Seitz says, "rain is to Cusack as caked blood is to Mel Gibson, the substance that makes him a star." And it's Ione Skye's greatest role ever because no one else ever figured out what to do with her.

The point? The point is, Say Anything... is playing tonight, tomorrow, and Friday at Central Cinema. If you've never seen it, we can forgive you, but only if you catch one of those showings. Also be sure to check out the DVD with a great commentary track from Cusack, Skye, and writer/director/apologist for Elizabethtown Cameron Crowe.

(And is it just us, or would Incarcerated Lloyd make an awesome band name?)