OurGirl: Anatomy of a Post

Note: scene contains obscenities



This was supposed to be a post where i talk about band aid approaches to life. the movie snippet is from vanilla sky. the character tom cruise plays has a group of experts working to restore the damages to his face. these damages done are largely due to tom cruise's character never fully participating in his own life—but instead, preferring to just sort of float on the surface of life and mutter sardonically about the obstacles and people in his life. here he totally flips out and is probably one of my favorite movie scenes. i think everyone has experienced that sense of helpless rage, the contempt for corporate/technical euphemisms, and the dawning sense of horror that maybe, had they just been a bit quicker, smarter, more empathic, or just more aware, this all could have been avoided.

as i write this, boy2 shoves two starbursts from halloween into his mouth. with a dreamy look on his face he softly, almost reverently whispers as he chews: "taste the rainbow. taste the rainbow."

i remember vanilla sky is based upon alejandro amenabar's abre los ojos and i do a search on wiki for the movie. my intent is to make an obscure reference so that my brother will grouse, "i dont know what to do with THAT." plus, remember my fondness for latin magical realism? oh, and by the way, they've made a movie about gabriel garcia marquez's love in the time of cholera. i will see that one.

boy2 now has my camera and he is spinning himself in a circle, randomly taking pictures as he spins. that's pretty cool. why didn't i ever do highly imaginative things like that when i was a kid?

on the wiki page, i see the spanish film's plot and themes are similiar to philip k. dick's Ubik. morgie loves philip k. dick. tom cruise starred in the minority report, another dick movie.

heh.

boy2 has now pestered me to take him to the farm at the same point his father has called me on the cell, asking me to come to the vineyard to help with post hole digging. evidently there has been enough blog post digging for content. it is time to take responsibility and act in my life instead of just floating and responding to my life in an online dream. and yes, before i realized that blogging was imitating cinema imitating books imitating life, i threw a little temper tantrum of my own and snapped would you give me five minutes of a free moment to just think and finish this task? which is a task about recording the events leading up to the temper tantrum.

open your eyes and taste the rainbow.