I’m not looking forward to going back to my old life, but the truth is, with so many billions and billions of people on the planet, most of us can’t be unique or important in any meaningful way. We go to sleep, we wake up, we go to work, we eat, we spend times with friends, we watch TV, maybe we even fall in love. But we don’t have any magical powers and we don’t have any great battles to fight, no evil forces to defeat, and no mysterious men in suits chasing after us. We just have reality. And believing anything else is just - well, believing in anything else is just crazy, isn’t it?
After watching a few episodes of The Rockford Files this weekend, I really appreciated the writing and modern sensibility we got from Veronica Mars. Can we please get Veronica Mars F.B.I.?
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
Georges Méliès at his toy and candy shop at Montparnasse station in Paris.
(via bbook)
Wine Writing Sample 2
My wine writing has gotten a bit morose lately but it is still selling wine…
The post-holiday blues are right around the corner. Soon we will be taking down the holiday decorations, planning our fitness routines to lose the holiday weight, and bemoaning the week after week of drudgery before our next vacation. We can find a way of holding back those feelings by treating ourselves to something extra special like the Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Within the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
The shortest day of the year approaches and we are dreaming of the bright sunny days of the future. But there is a season for all things. Short dark days are the time for complex, intense thoughts which deserve a complex, intense wine for accompaniement. Some of the greatest philosophical thoughts came from darkened rooms lit by candle and firelight as our ancestors sipped their wines contemplating the world and people around them.
Actually, Love Actually
Last night my girlfriend made me dinner, after which we set about to watch a movie. It recently came to light that I had never seen Love Actually. Actually, I had always confused this movie with Playing By Heart and wasn’t too thrilled with it. Thus, I sat down to a night of watching what the British considered romance and love.
First off, it was an entertaining film filled with amazing actors and actresses. Loved so many of these performances, especially that of Bill Nighy’s. Some of the love stories were truly romantic and ‘honest’, such as the guy in love with the friend’s wife, the business man flirting with his assistant, and the couple who are in love but aren’t.
Maybe I am wrong about this but American women aren’t as slutty as portrayed in this movie. Why do American women even like this movie? Oh, I guess when they watch it, they think they are the Prime Minister’s girl who is supposed to be ‘chubby’ but so really isn’t even close to being chubby. Or maybe the angle was off and I never saw her fullscale chub.
See the Prime Minister and his Chubby Assistant(tm).
Colin Firth falls in love with a woman in less than a month that he can’t communicate with and more realistically she falls in love with Colin Firth because what woman wouldn’t fall in love with Colin Firth, amiright?
Let’s face it, actually, this is how people want romance to work. Like clockwork, timed perfectly to coincide with our big life events. We always want to be able to express our love and have it reciprocated or at least acknowledged with a sweet kiss.
The lessons I learned from this movie: American women are sluts. The one American woman character in the movie is about to sleep with a guy she has had crush on for two years the first moment he is in her apartment (sorry, flat). A British guy goes to Wisconsin to hook up with four American women who all sleep naked in the same bed. One of whom returns to England with her sister who then makes out with the British guy’s friend moments after meeting him. Slutty, slutty American women.
I learned it is appropriate to ask a woman to marry you after knowing her for just three weeks. This could explain why Colin Firth’s brother was sleeping with Colin Firth’s girlfriend in the first part of the movie. I mean really Colin, get to know the woman first. You don’t have to be married to have sex.
This movie wasn’t a giant steaming pile, but it was a movie oddly focused on England’s weird love affair with Christmas. This coming from a country that once banned Christmas. Talk about a fickle lover.
This isn’t what I meant.
There was a North Dakotan who lived right on the Montana border. One day some surveyors came to his door to inform him that they had made a mistake years before and now the North Dakotans actually lived in Montana. “Oh, good,” said the North Dakotan. “I don’t think I could stand another one of those North Dakota winters.
Delicious. Spicy, smooth, feel full in the mouth and a really pleasant aftertaste.
Disturbing Dream
Last night I had a dream about a flock of birds flying over my old home in Montana.
