Schtuffy Spring
Apr. 4th, 2003 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
Hey there, all...
There is an insane amount of pollen in the air today. I keep walking around with my head cocked for a sneeze. Grrumble.
Had a nice night, last night...![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2_gryphon took me out for dinner at Taco Bell, where we munched on unwholesome AmeriMex fast food and discussed the whole comedy routine-thing. He suggested my strong points and what I could do to build on that...it was really weird talking shop with him, because I'm still not entirely sure I can hack it, but we'll see.
We rented a bunch of movies, too! The old CBS special on Carol Burnett was pretty groovy, even if it was too short and laden down with the song-and-dance cheese that we've come to know and love Carol Burnett for. ;) The special kind of reminded me how much quality TV is missed in this day and age; there's a lot of pap out there and since (arguably) In Living Color, there hasn't really been a decent sketch comedy. My apologies to fans of SNL and MadTV. :)
Donnie Darko, now there's a good movie! Genuinely creepy and imaginative, with a wonderfully esoteric premise that'll keep churning in your brain for days. (I'm getting pretty good at movie blurbs...) I'm still piecing together all of the relationships throughout the movie, because I get the feeling they're a lot deeper/symbolic than they first seem. Especially Frank...there's something about him that just screams something big. The world's end angle is fascinating to think about, too, because in a way it did...and in a way it didn't. Donnie *was* alone, though, in the end. Hope that doesn' ruin too much of the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it...
We rented a 9.11 documentary, too, the one that aired on ABC, from the two French brothers. It's probably the best thing I've seen on the whole incident so far; both brothers have a very compassionate, dignified eye for what happened that day. It's an amazing account.
I think that we as a country, as a society, have lost the meaning of 9.11 already. It's been couched in so much bullshit, used as a bargaining chip to push someone else's agenda, that the 'shock and awe' of the entire thing has been lost. I mean, we all have our stories memorized of where we were when it happened, but our expressions of grief, bewilderment, fear and disbelief are nothing more than expressions now...the meaning has been worn out by their use. It's one thing to recall the incident, but to truly *remember*...to feel what it was like when you were watching it all unfold on TV, the tightness in your chest you felt when the whole...security of American life was gone those few hours, the daze I walked around in for that entire week, trying to grasp what had happened, trying to make sense of it, crying when I realized I couldn't make sense of it...it's important to *remember* what 9.11 was, because anything else is cheapening the real horror of that day.
Knowing that we're causing the same fear and uncertainty in Baghdad and all of Iraq, that we're perpetuating that cycle...is madness to me.
I think I'll own that documentary when I get the money. It's remembrance.
I'm very hungry right now; but I have a cranberry muffin and a cup of tea waiting for me in the kitchen at work. :9 As soon as I'm done here, I'm gonna go get my breakfast on!
There is an insane amount of pollen in the air today. I keep walking around with my head cocked for a sneeze. Grrumble.
Had a nice night, last night...
2_gryphon took me out for dinner at Taco Bell, where we munched on unwholesome AmeriMex fast food and discussed the whole comedy routine-thing. He suggested my strong points and what I could do to build on that...it was really weird talking shop with him, because I'm still not entirely sure I can hack it, but we'll see.We rented a bunch of movies, too! The old CBS special on Carol Burnett was pretty groovy, even if it was too short and laden down with the song-and-dance cheese that we've come to know and love Carol Burnett for. ;) The special kind of reminded me how much quality TV is missed in this day and age; there's a lot of pap out there and since (arguably) In Living Color, there hasn't really been a decent sketch comedy. My apologies to fans of SNL and MadTV. :)
Donnie Darko, now there's a good movie! Genuinely creepy and imaginative, with a wonderfully esoteric premise that'll keep churning in your brain for days. (I'm getting pretty good at movie blurbs...) I'm still piecing together all of the relationships throughout the movie, because I get the feeling they're a lot deeper/symbolic than they first seem. Especially Frank...there's something about him that just screams something big. The world's end angle is fascinating to think about, too, because in a way it did...and in a way it didn't. Donnie *was* alone, though, in the end. Hope that doesn' ruin too much of the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it...
We rented a 9.11 documentary, too, the one that aired on ABC, from the two French brothers. It's probably the best thing I've seen on the whole incident so far; both brothers have a very compassionate, dignified eye for what happened that day. It's an amazing account.
I think that we as a country, as a society, have lost the meaning of 9.11 already. It's been couched in so much bullshit, used as a bargaining chip to push someone else's agenda, that the 'shock and awe' of the entire thing has been lost. I mean, we all have our stories memorized of where we were when it happened, but our expressions of grief, bewilderment, fear and disbelief are nothing more than expressions now...the meaning has been worn out by their use. It's one thing to recall the incident, but to truly *remember*...to feel what it was like when you were watching it all unfold on TV, the tightness in your chest you felt when the whole...security of American life was gone those few hours, the daze I walked around in for that entire week, trying to grasp what had happened, trying to make sense of it, crying when I realized I couldn't make sense of it...it's important to *remember* what 9.11 was, because anything else is cheapening the real horror of that day.
Knowing that we're causing the same fear and uncertainty in Baghdad and all of Iraq, that we're perpetuating that cycle...is madness to me.
I think I'll own that documentary when I get the money. It's remembrance.
I'm very hungry right now; but I have a cranberry muffin and a cup of tea waiting for me in the kitchen at work. :9 As soon as I'm done here, I'm gonna go get my breakfast on!
