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bluegreen17) wrote2002-07-11 10:22 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2002-07-11 10:22 pm
ms. golightly and pippi and maude...
i love listening to the songbirds. that's one of the reasons i stayed home today. it was pleasantly cool and that meant i could sit in front of the open window and enjoy the fresh air and their singing. it's one of the little things i take immense pleasure in.
it's now almost ten p.m.and as usual had the illusion that since i stayed home i might accomplish something around the place,but ha ha i should know better.
i went to the library and i knew exactly the kind of novel or biography i wanted to find...about someone who had a lot of spunk and joie de vivre,like holly golightly in the movie version of 'breakfast at tiffany's' or...heck,i can't think of another example of what i mean.most of the novels are murder mysteries or about the serious and heavy side of life. i guess people aren't considered any good unless they write about the sad or tragic sides of life,and sometimes i want a break from that. i know life isn't a picnic and i dont' want to read about fake happiness but just really that 'love of life'...i could use the inspiration. that's the kind of person i'd like to be...a grown-up version of pippi longstocking maybe...or maude in 'harold and maude' (though i never really liked the ending,or at least part of the ending...)
well,it was almost closing time at the library and so i didn't find anything that fit that description.
next i went to the video store to find a movie character sort of like that,so i perused the comedy section for a while but didnt' find quite what i was looking for there either. (maybe 'amelie',which i haven't seen,will be like that,and that's due out next week.) i got a movie called 'sweethearts' with janeane garofolo in it because i like her from all the interviews i've read with her.and i got 'nightwatch' with ewan mcgregor because i don't think they have 'shallow grave' which i love him in and i used to have a copy but someone borrowed my copy and when they returned it,it had the wrong cassette in it,and they're long gone,so it's lost.i wanted to see 'mallrats' just to see jason lee but that seemed to be out,or they dont' have it. but i doubt they don't stock it! i also got 'ghost world' which i just watched and i thought the characters were good but it was depressing. i thought it would have something useful to say,but if it did,i missed it. (that's possible. i often miss things that other people 'get' and 'get' things that other people miss.i can sometimes understand abstract vague metaphysical concepts (at least according to my friend george,who's often said things to that effect. one day he said i was 'on the bus' even though that usually refers to people who have done/are doing lsd because it opens up your consciousness,and he knows i've never dropped acid but he says i'm 'on the bus' even so. well,it's cool to think i'm on that bus with all the very aware people,though it doesn't seem to have done me much good to have such an open conciousness,as far as i can see! but maybe someday it will.)
can anyone think of movies with inspring characters?
it's now almost ten p.m.and as usual had the illusion that since i stayed home i might accomplish something around the place,but ha ha i should know better.
i went to the library and i knew exactly the kind of novel or biography i wanted to find...about someone who had a lot of spunk and joie de vivre,like holly golightly in the movie version of 'breakfast at tiffany's' or...heck,i can't think of another example of what i mean.most of the novels are murder mysteries or about the serious and heavy side of life. i guess people aren't considered any good unless they write about the sad or tragic sides of life,and sometimes i want a break from that. i know life isn't a picnic and i dont' want to read about fake happiness but just really that 'love of life'...i could use the inspiration. that's the kind of person i'd like to be...a grown-up version of pippi longstocking maybe...or maude in 'harold and maude' (though i never really liked the ending,or at least part of the ending...)
well,it was almost closing time at the library and so i didn't find anything that fit that description.
next i went to the video store to find a movie character sort of like that,so i perused the comedy section for a while but didnt' find quite what i was looking for there either. (maybe 'amelie',which i haven't seen,will be like that,and that's due out next week.) i got a movie called 'sweethearts' with janeane garofolo in it because i like her from all the interviews i've read with her.and i got 'nightwatch' with ewan mcgregor because i don't think they have 'shallow grave' which i love him in and i used to have a copy but someone borrowed my copy and when they returned it,it had the wrong cassette in it,and they're long gone,so it's lost.i wanted to see 'mallrats' just to see jason lee but that seemed to be out,or they dont' have it. but i doubt they don't stock it! i also got 'ghost world' which i just watched and i thought the characters were good but it was depressing. i thought it would have something useful to say,but if it did,i missed it. (that's possible. i often miss things that other people 'get' and 'get' things that other people miss.i can sometimes understand abstract vague metaphysical concepts (at least according to my friend george,who's often said things to that effect. one day he said i was 'on the bus' even though that usually refers to people who have done/are doing lsd because it opens up your consciousness,and he knows i've never dropped acid but he says i'm 'on the bus' even so. well,it's cool to think i'm on that bus with all the very aware people,though it doesn't seem to have done me much good to have such an open conciousness,as far as i can see! but maybe someday it will.)
can anyone think of movies with inspring characters?
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I think it's an absolutely beautiful movie, though some people dismiss it as too schmaltzy.... I, personally, think it's a very-well executed schmaltziness, and a very moving film... It stars Jeff Bridges as a man who survives a horrible plane crash, and then thinks that he is beyond death.
A lot of the discussions and dialogue in the movie are intensely philosophical, and the cast is first rate: Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Benicio del Toro, John Turturro, and Tom Hulce. This one was directed by the great Peter Weir, who's brought us such great films as Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock, etc.
Sooooo.... Yeah, you should rent it, if you haven't already. : )
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