I'm watching Brick.
Any of you see that movie? I don't know how it applies to anyone else, but my favorite thing about it, besides the shooting and the clever writing and how it all ties together, is that it really makes you (me) remember what it was like to be in high school. How you think that stage in your life is the big, dramatic point in life where things draw to a head, where your life defines itself. Your life is it. That's all.
Funny thing, the femme fatale in the film looks shockingly like a young lady I had a terrible crush on, during college, not high school. It's not an odd thing, other people have mentioned this too me on having seen the film. It makes me like the movie more, the way that you can enjoy a story when there's some small thing tying you to it in a way that otherwise you might not.
Golly. Things in my life seem to be in this constant state of drawing to a head. There are all these little things that make the hair on the back of my neck tickle, that make me watch over my shoulder and around the corner, that make me give up all the security and guards I had and eventually just figure that it's better I expose myself, make myself open, let those tender little parts hang raw to the air and breath in the cool wind that clings to the water in my blood.
I'm reading Sherman Alexie. I keep thinking about some of my closest friends, two of whom were Indian, one that killed himself, the other who was always so damn lonely and so beautiful that it made me love her, even if she was moody and sometimes made me so mad I could call at her, and did, that she was a bad friend. She never was, just an ordinary person at moments, and for the rest of time, a great person, who forces me in some damnable way to think of her now and wonder how she could ever doubt that she's great.
There's so much that makes us great, the people that, like metal filings to a magnet, pull in slowly, towards something better.
I really do love my friends, and hope that my life lives up to everything I think it might.
Any of you see that movie? I don't know how it applies to anyone else, but my favorite thing about it, besides the shooting and the clever writing and how it all ties together, is that it really makes you (me) remember what it was like to be in high school. How you think that stage in your life is the big, dramatic point in life where things draw to a head, where your life defines itself. Your life is it. That's all.
Funny thing, the femme fatale in the film looks shockingly like a young lady I had a terrible crush on, during college, not high school. It's not an odd thing, other people have mentioned this too me on having seen the film. It makes me like the movie more, the way that you can enjoy a story when there's some small thing tying you to it in a way that otherwise you might not.
Golly. Things in my life seem to be in this constant state of drawing to a head. There are all these little things that make the hair on the back of my neck tickle, that make me watch over my shoulder and around the corner, that make me give up all the security and guards I had and eventually just figure that it's better I expose myself, make myself open, let those tender little parts hang raw to the air and breath in the cool wind that clings to the water in my blood.
I'm reading Sherman Alexie. I keep thinking about some of my closest friends, two of whom were Indian, one that killed himself, the other who was always so damn lonely and so beautiful that it made me love her, even if she was moody and sometimes made me so mad I could call at her, and did, that she was a bad friend. She never was, just an ordinary person at moments, and for the rest of time, a great person, who forces me in some damnable way to think of her now and wonder how she could ever doubt that she's great.
There's so much that makes us great, the people that, like metal filings to a magnet, pull in slowly, towards something better.
I really do love my friends, and hope that my life lives up to everything I think it might.
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Brick reminds me of Primer, which is a similarly well constructed, low budget movie.