Spot, Springtime, and Stay
Mar. 30th, 2006 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideWe put Spot to sleep today. Spot was our boss's three-legged bearded dragon who has been at the hospital since before I started working there. I hated losing him because I've always been fond of him, and it kinda took a lot out of me to hold him while he died. But it was outside in the sun and he was with the two people who took care of him--Casse and I--so it could have been worse. We buried him out in the back under a tree and planted some flowers. I will miss that little pointy critter.
It had to be about 68 today, maybe even 70, so even though a bunch of us were sad about Spot, we still went outside and hung out in the sun for a while. Looks like the worst of the cold is gone. Goodbye, winter, until next year!
Last night in Kung Fu Erica and I decided to do a little iron body training with each other and with the mook jong. Let me tell you, I couldn't move my right arm last night. I'm all bruised and swollen, but I wish the bruises were worse so that it looked as bad as it felt. Though when I say "bad" I don't mean that it's horrible and I wouldn't do it again, just really intense. A little pain never hurt anyone, right?
And I got my Buffy Season 7 DVDs today, yay me. I'll have something to watch for a while now.
Oh, I saw Stay last night. It was very creepy, gave me nightmares. I like movies that mess with your mind like that. Or at least I like them until I get into bed and turn the light off. It was similar to Waking Life, though not as subtle.
In Waking Life we have the option of believing that The Guy is dying through the entire movie after having been hit by a car and is experiencing that time-stretched twelve minutes of dreaming before brain death that the movie discusses:
" You know they say that there's still six to twelve minutes of brain activity after everything else is shutdown. And a second of dream consciousness, right, well, that's infinitely longer than a waking second. You know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah, definitely. For example, I wake up and it is 10:12, and then I go back to sleep and I have those long, intricate, beautiful dreams that seem to last for hours, and then I wake up and it's ... 10:13.
Yeah, exactly. So then six to twelve minutes of brain activity, I mean, that could be your whole life."
"Stay" takes that one idea and makes it the entire movie. Henry is in a car accident, and in those last few minutes before he dies, he has to come to terms with what has happened, his own role in the death of his loved ones, and letting go of his guilt. At least that's what I got out of it. The movie was made up of tiny, dream-like details, such as Ewan McGregor's pants being too short because, in real time, he was crouching down over Henry and Henry could see his pants had ridden up and incorporates this into his dream. That's one creepy and realistic touch.
Film-makers are really starting to understand the subconscious.
And Ewan McGregor is beautiful.
It had to be about 68 today, maybe even 70, so even though a bunch of us were sad about Spot, we still went outside and hung out in the sun for a while. Looks like the worst of the cold is gone. Goodbye, winter, until next year!
Last night in Kung Fu Erica and I decided to do a little iron body training with each other and with the mook jong. Let me tell you, I couldn't move my right arm last night. I'm all bruised and swollen, but I wish the bruises were worse so that it looked as bad as it felt. Though when I say "bad" I don't mean that it's horrible and I wouldn't do it again, just really intense. A little pain never hurt anyone, right?
And I got my Buffy Season 7 DVDs today, yay me. I'll have something to watch for a while now.
Oh, I saw Stay last night. It was very creepy, gave me nightmares. I like movies that mess with your mind like that. Or at least I like them until I get into bed and turn the light off. It was similar to Waking Life, though not as subtle.
In Waking Life we have the option of believing that The Guy is dying through the entire movie after having been hit by a car and is experiencing that time-stretched twelve minutes of dreaming before brain death that the movie discusses:
" You know they say that there's still six to twelve minutes of brain activity after everything else is shutdown. And a second of dream consciousness, right, well, that's infinitely longer than a waking second. You know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah, definitely. For example, I wake up and it is 10:12, and then I go back to sleep and I have those long, intricate, beautiful dreams that seem to last for hours, and then I wake up and it's ... 10:13.
Yeah, exactly. So then six to twelve minutes of brain activity, I mean, that could be your whole life."
"Stay" takes that one idea and makes it the entire movie. Henry is in a car accident, and in those last few minutes before he dies, he has to come to terms with what has happened, his own role in the death of his loved ones, and letting go of his guilt. At least that's what I got out of it. The movie was made up of tiny, dream-like details, such as Ewan McGregor's pants being too short because, in real time, he was crouching down over Henry and Henry could see his pants had ridden up and incorporates this into his dream. That's one creepy and realistic touch.
Film-makers are really starting to understand the subconscious.
And Ewan McGregor is beautiful.
