Hurdles

So much I want to say, but not enough time. I'm sure none of you have ever had that feeling before. ;)

"Requiem For A Dream" hits me just as hard as it did the first time I saw it. The great thing about the latest viewing? daroneasa saw it for the first time, so she was just as much a blubbering mess as I was. Afterwards, I got to treat her to "Pi," so here Aronofskification is complete. Now we can geek out over the upcoming episode of "LOST" and "The Fountain" (bamboofae, it *does* have Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman).

Still love "Fight Club" as much as ever, but the ideas that author presents through his construction of the world suddenly strikes me as incredibly cynical. Still, Tyler's ideas remain as attractive as ever, and it's easy to see how people *could* fall into an 'event' like Project Mayhem/Fight Club. When you get right down to it, humans are social to the point of being herd creatures; we all feel the need to belong to something, and have some sort of purpose and direction. Project Mayhem provided that in spades, and so did the Nazi Party. Come to think of it, so does the Boy Scouts, Christian congregations, Buddhist communities, political action groups, knitting circles... The real trick is to seriously discern whether or not the direction any particular activity points you to is a road you really want to go down. Anyway, I really want to read the book now; it occured to me that a lot of Jack's expository dialogue might be aped directly from it. If that's the case, man Chuck Palahnuik has a silver tongue. :)

Work is work is work. The dentist will be covered in a latter post, as well as the Zen meditation group, my ongoing adventures with cooking, my Valentine's day (swoon!), how I first met toob, thoughts on "Fables" and "Astonishing X-Men" and all kinds of other geekery!

Where Is My Mind?

Great, now I have the Pixies stuck in my head! That guitar riff at the end of "Fight Club" is one of the catchiest things ever...a near-perfect marriage of image and music in movies. Say what you will about the views expressed, it's one of the tightest films anyone is likely to see.

Whoo, where have I been since...Monday evening? It's best to take this in chronological order.


( Now and Zen...how clever! )

( And then the cooking... )

( ...and Valentine's day... )

This was supposed to lead into how I first met Tube and everything, which (to me) is a funny story, but...there's a *lot* I have to do and, you know, I've rambled on long enough. I'll try and sit down tonight to bang out the rest of this rambling.

Rekanize

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[noun]:

A master of storytelling

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