Relationship movies as romantic placebo? Yeah, I do that. Last night? “Chasing Amy”. After knowing the community more during the 14 years since seeing it, it finally made some sense. Tonight? “Before Sunset” (as referenced earlier); second viewing, first since reviewing “Before Sunrise”. It’s better the second time. Also, “Lost In Translation”, because it’s difficult. …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Unlimited Vistas for a Limited Horizon
Since I’ve moved from my hometown, I’ve gone on sneering rants about how much the people in my home town are in a bubble, how if it’s not within the Texarkana city limits or anywhere within the two neighboring counties, they just don’t care to know about it. Selective myopia, small lives, out-of-sight out-of-mind, and …
NO-ga
I’m quitting yoga. Spare me your admonitions. It’s been a lonely, solitary journey wracked with frustration, pain, stress, embarrassment, and emotional unease. Sure, I’ve noticed a physical change (when I actually stick to the regimen), but otherwise, there has been nothing positive about it. Those people in that room are in a different social class …
Turn Down and In
Hate living in apartments. No idea how badly my sound carries through the walls, but I’ve had a history of carrying a grudge against my neighbors over how much I can hear them. I have to wonder if they can hear just as much of me as I do them, so I constrict myself and …
Ce n’est pas un Imbécile
Got an inspiration a month ago to write a song in the style of Kraftwerk singing in French with the snap of INXS. It was going to be euro-fabulous, sexy, sensual, and in French. The problem here being that I do not know French. I know a few swear words, but that’s the extent. I’ve …