Let's try this one more time.

The last few posts i have written have been disappointing from my point of view. Since I am the sole author of this blog i have no one to blame but myself. However The last two times I've tried to post stuff something has happened before the I finished and when I come back my train of thought is long derailed. I end up posting whatever I had written plus a little bit extra to add some form of closure, but it is sub-par in my opinion. I actually started writing this post in hopes that something would happen as did the last two times i started but I'm pretty sure one of Murphy's laws says that that is exactly what wont happen because I want it to. but then the fact that I'm expecting a certain outcome (that being nothing happening) Means that the law kicks in again and it will happen as i expect it. This continues ad nauseum until someone becomes nauseous, the universe implodes or something either happens or doesn't.

I watched Donnie Darko today and I was not disappointed. However this is because i expected it to be the lame sort of stuff where you don't know what's going on and so it must be intelligent. I told Andrea this but I think I told it to her in a rather rude way. She's been having a tough few days and has been on edge more than usual. (usual is usually very little) The thing about Donnie Darko wasn;'t that i didn't understand it, but that so little of it had a purpose. It also had a time travel paradox which bothered me more than usual. I like time travel and I like the different ways people deal with the "grandfather paradox" this movie had one but it didn't get resolved, or even acknowledged. I suppose there could be some of the whole "is he Crazy or not?" thing going on there but I'm pretty sure the ending was to definite for that to really work. Drew Barrymore was in it because she was the executive producer and since she was paying for it she got to be in it. The whole cellar door thing was annoying too. If it was said by a "famous linguist" then who was it? (research finds that it was J.R.R. Tolkien, not exactly what I would call a linguist. {sub note: The filmmaker attributes it to Edgar Allan Poe}) And why was it beautiful? And what does this have to do with the plot other than to give Drew something to do that seems important? And if ht lead wasn't crazy (as the ending implies) why was he going to a therapist and taking drugs for schizophrenia? (yes I know that in the director's cut they are placebos, but that just brings in more problems)

The two previous paragraphs put together remind me of a (in my not so humble opinion) much better movie called Primer. The movie deals with time travel, but that's not why I thought of it. The protagonists are talking about how an object in gthe stasis feild they created bounces back and forth between two points in time and if the object was intelligent it could come out at the "past" end. This bouncing back and forth thing reminds me of the Murphy's law thing in the first paragraph. only I am not "intelligent" enough to break the laws of probability in this universe. If i was a fir derring or perhaps a pookah (I don't have my Callahan's books with me, or I'd look it up) I could perhaps handle this problem. It should also be noted that at this point the bouncing has not worked in my favor, as nothing has happened, which was probably my second to last choice. However I have managed to Spend the last half hour or so distracting myself from the nothing that was happening. I might go get some food now to continue the distraction.


Happy first of May everybody!  ¶ 5/01/2007 10:33:00 PM