Everything is illuminated
I've got a lot to say, so please pardon any non sequiturs.
A)I watched Everything is Illuminated today. Shamefully, I have yet to get around to reading the book, but I really liked the movie. Now, I'm no film critic, or even aficionado, but I enjoy films that make me think and that give me a new perspective. Here's a quote from the movie (as verbatim as I can recall it)
"Everthing is illuminated by the past. It is always there beside you, looking from the inside out." There is another part that talks about why we leave parts of ourselves, be it in words, pictures, creations, whathaveyou - and the answer given is that the future exists for the past.
Sometimes I tend to think the past exists for me, but really, I exist for the past. And it is true that everything is illuminated by the past. There is communion in the past. Anything you go through, there is and has been a tide of humanity that has also borne it. When we can make peace when the past, we can make peace with present, until then, we will never be at peace.
B)In a completely different vein, a little about human nature... I was listening to Sufjan Stevens today, specially the Illinoise album. I was listening to the song about John Wayne Gacy Jr. It's a hard song to get through, if you know the story of Gacy, who killed 27 (I think) young boys. But the last verse is very poignant. Stevens talks about how he is just like Gacy, how Gacy had a lot to hide under his floorboards, but so do all of us when it really comes down to it. We've all got skeletons under our floorboards. (To tie it all together:)
This was rather obvious to me the other day when I was at blockbuster looking for some movies to watch since two of my best friends just moved away and I'm sad and lonesome. I was glancing at the movies and in reflection, I'm disgusted by some of the ones that attracted my attention. I'm not talking about movies about sex. I'm talking about movies about the dark side of things. Movies about people like John Wayne Gacy. Movies that I would never actually rent, but really want to know what they are about. It's a little disturbing why all that stuff is attractive, like somewhere in the canaliculi of my body there is a space and appetite for things that are and should be repulsive. It's sickening to me.
Anyway, on to a lighter note, don't ever cite another artist and that respective artist's song in one of your songs. Snow Patrol names Sufjan's "Chicago" in one of the tunes on their new album and it kind of really makes me think of small children writing songs with crayons. Grace and peace friends.
Nordan
A)I watched Everything is Illuminated today. Shamefully, I have yet to get around to reading the book, but I really liked the movie. Now, I'm no film critic, or even aficionado, but I enjoy films that make me think and that give me a new perspective. Here's a quote from the movie (as verbatim as I can recall it)
"Everthing is illuminated by the past. It is always there beside you, looking from the inside out." There is another part that talks about why we leave parts of ourselves, be it in words, pictures, creations, whathaveyou - and the answer given is that the future exists for the past.
Sometimes I tend to think the past exists for me, but really, I exist for the past. And it is true that everything is illuminated by the past. There is communion in the past. Anything you go through, there is and has been a tide of humanity that has also borne it. When we can make peace when the past, we can make peace with present, until then, we will never be at peace.
B)In a completely different vein, a little about human nature... I was listening to Sufjan Stevens today, specially the Illinoise album. I was listening to the song about John Wayne Gacy Jr. It's a hard song to get through, if you know the story of Gacy, who killed 27 (I think) young boys. But the last verse is very poignant. Stevens talks about how he is just like Gacy, how Gacy had a lot to hide under his floorboards, but so do all of us when it really comes down to it. We've all got skeletons under our floorboards. (To tie it all together:)
This was rather obvious to me the other day when I was at blockbuster looking for some movies to watch since two of my best friends just moved away and I'm sad and lonesome. I was glancing at the movies and in reflection, I'm disgusted by some of the ones that attracted my attention. I'm not talking about movies about sex. I'm talking about movies about the dark side of things. Movies about people like John Wayne Gacy. Movies that I would never actually rent, but really want to know what they are about. It's a little disturbing why all that stuff is attractive, like somewhere in the canaliculi of my body there is a space and appetite for things that are and should be repulsive. It's sickening to me.
Anyway, on to a lighter note, don't ever cite another artist and that respective artist's song in one of your songs. Snow Patrol names Sufjan's "Chicago" in one of the tunes on their new album and it kind of really makes me think of small children writing songs with crayons. Grace and peace friends.
Nordan
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