What started out as a 20 minute delay has now turned into a 3-hour delay. I have only been delayed a handful of times, but I am starting to see a pattern.
#1 – I tell someone that traveling isn’t too bad – “I haven’t had any major problems/delays” #2 – I drive to the airport myself rather than taking a taxi.
Oh well. Listening to the Riverdance soundtrack, trying to imagine Michael Flatley, Jean Butler and the other people dancing about the stage, and staring out at the fog surrounding the airport isn’t too horrible of a way to spend the morning.
Second movie of the past weekend – There Will Be Blood.
In his ruthless pursuit of wealth, misanthropic oilman Daniel Plainview tricks a local farmer into signing away his valuable drilling rights and rejects his own son, H.W., when the boy loses his hearing in an accident. As he becomes increasingly isolated and unstable, Daniel places his trust in a vagrant claiming to be his half-brother, and finds his position unsettled by H.W.’s return and the growing popularity of the farmer’s son, now an evangelical preacher.
Probably not one I would have chosen to see by myself, but a friend wanted to see it, so I went.
I think this is a movie that I would say is very well done, but I would be hesitant to recommend to people. Or, at least, I’d recommend with certain qualifications.
Regardless, the movie is nominated for 8 Academy Awards and I won’t be surprised if it comes away a big winner. Daniel Day Lewis should definitely win for Best Actor.
This is one of the strangest/most interesting things I’ve seen in a while. To reduce the severity of Joe’s epileptic seizure, doctors performed a drastic brain surgery: they cut the corpus callosum and severed the connection between his left and right cerebral hemispheres.
First movie in the theater seen this year – Atonement.
I’ve recently been thinking about relationships. A blog I found recently asked the question, “What is the goal of relationships?” The original answer that was discussed between this guy and his friend was happiness. But a day later, he came back and said that happiness should not be the goal because if you’re looking outside of yourself, to someone/something else for happiness, you’re not going to find it. Which makes sense. The whole, love yourself before you can love someone else spiel.
So… he comes back and says that he believes the goal of relationships is to see the world through someone else’s eyes. To experience things in a whole new way.
I’m not sure I buy into that, since it is so abstract and I really can’t get my mind around that. Regardless… during this movie, I was thinking about the concept of “one true love” and what my thoughts are about it. I am still not convinced that there is not one person out there who is perfect for me. I’d like to believe there isn’t because that would take a lot of stress out of the whole equation, but then I just feel like I would be settling.
Ugh.
Anyway… my thoughts at the end of the movie: I want a Robbie. I want a Cecelia. I want someone who wants me back.
This song by Blue October has an incredible chorus which says:
Well I’ll keep calling you to see, If you’re sleeping, are you dreaming and If you’re dreaming, are you dreaming of me. I can’t believe, You actually picked… me.
