So I JUST got back from the pictures and saw "The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button."
It's been an interesting day. It's rained for the first time in ages and also worked for the first time in ages. needless to say I got soaked for the first time in ages too.
Also my mom is visiting from Portland. I haven't seen her since my sister's wedding in Seattle last August. I got home from work at 7 PM. Soaking wet from working on set at a tattoo parlor for an AMP commercial since 6 AM, I really wanted to see Benjamin Button so I jumped in the shower and got ready. We got in the car and headed toward Universal City Walk to go watch the movie at 9:45 late for the 10:10 showing.
I merged onto the US 101 and if none of you have ever been to LA. When it rains people are two kinds of driviers here. They slow WAY down or they continue to drive like they are nuts. I was merging onto the highway and I had to get over 6 or 7 lanes to exit at the Universal exit a mile down the highway. As I merged onto the freeway a car speeds past me and I though to myself that they should slow down. After I had merged 3 lanes I saw a car spinning out of control infront of me As I was already merging to the left I continue to go over a few more lanes. I narrowly missed the car and thank god for anyone else and the driver nobody else was hit and they just ended up perpendicular to the traffic and created traffic.
Now here is the interesting part. My mom drops this on me AFTER we see the movie, as we are exiting the movie theater and I think it is AMAZING.
So in one of the scenes in the movie Kate Blanchet's character is hit by a car and Brad Pitt's character, Benjamin, describe a series of events that occurred in which if only one of them had not occurred then Kate Blanchet's character would have not been struck by the car.
There was a taxi driver who stopped for coffee and picked up a women, who was late, and they were stopped by a man, whose alarm clock was 5 minutes late. All of these occurances happened and she was hit by a car. If one had not occurred, Benjamin argued, then she would have never been hit by the taxi.
So when my mother and I are leaving the parking structure tonight my mom mentioned she had sneezed tonight before we left for the movie. My grandmother had always told her that it was bad luck to sneeze before leaving the house and would always say a prayer three times in a row for good luck and would always make you wait before leaving. Kind of like a hail mary. So when my mom sneezed tonight she paused as we were leaving and recited the prayer to herself before we left. It delayed us a few seconds. She told me this because she thought if she had not recited the prayer three time then we would have ben a few seconds earlier and gotten on the highway just 2-3 seconds sooner and therefore; we would have been right behind that car as it spun out of control and we would have hit them. If she hadn't paused to say those prayers in her Iranian superstition, maybe I would have been writing this from the hospital. Or maybe not at all.
Who knows what would have happened, but if definitely makes me think.
Anyways. Go see the movie. I recommend it. Its a bitter sweet movie and I think even though the story has a few holes. It is definitely a magical movie. Inspiring and moving.
Two thumbs up from me.
It's been an interesting day. It's rained for the first time in ages and also worked for the first time in ages. needless to say I got soaked for the first time in ages too.
Also my mom is visiting from Portland. I haven't seen her since my sister's wedding in Seattle last August. I got home from work at 7 PM. Soaking wet from working on set at a tattoo parlor for an AMP commercial since 6 AM, I really wanted to see Benjamin Button so I jumped in the shower and got ready. We got in the car and headed toward Universal City Walk to go watch the movie at 9:45 late for the 10:10 showing.
I merged onto the US 101 and if none of you have ever been to LA. When it rains people are two kinds of driviers here. They slow WAY down or they continue to drive like they are nuts. I was merging onto the highway and I had to get over 6 or 7 lanes to exit at the Universal exit a mile down the highway. As I merged onto the freeway a car speeds past me and I though to myself that they should slow down. After I had merged 3 lanes I saw a car spinning out of control infront of me As I was already merging to the left I continue to go over a few more lanes. I narrowly missed the car and thank god for anyone else and the driver nobody else was hit and they just ended up perpendicular to the traffic and created traffic.
Now here is the interesting part. My mom drops this on me AFTER we see the movie, as we are exiting the movie theater and I think it is AMAZING.
So in one of the scenes in the movie Kate Blanchet's character is hit by a car and Brad Pitt's character, Benjamin, describe a series of events that occurred in which if only one of them had not occurred then Kate Blanchet's character would have not been struck by the car.
There was a taxi driver who stopped for coffee and picked up a women, who was late, and they were stopped by a man, whose alarm clock was 5 minutes late. All of these occurances happened and she was hit by a car. If one had not occurred, Benjamin argued, then she would have never been hit by the taxi.
So when my mother and I are leaving the parking structure tonight my mom mentioned she had sneezed tonight before we left for the movie. My grandmother had always told her that it was bad luck to sneeze before leaving the house and would always say a prayer three times in a row for good luck and would always make you wait before leaving. Kind of like a hail mary. So when my mom sneezed tonight she paused as we were leaving and recited the prayer to herself before we left. It delayed us a few seconds. She told me this because she thought if she had not recited the prayer three time then we would have ben a few seconds earlier and gotten on the highway just 2-3 seconds sooner and therefore; we would have been right behind that car as it spun out of control and we would have hit them. If she hadn't paused to say those prayers in her Iranian superstition, maybe I would have been writing this from the hospital. Or maybe not at all.
Who knows what would have happened, but if definitely makes me think.
Anyways. Go see the movie. I recommend it. Its a bitter sweet movie and I think even though the story has a few holes. It is definitely a magical movie. Inspiring and moving.
Two thumbs up from me.
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xtine:
::HIGH FIVE!::
xtine:
Dude, crazy story.