I am a sap for romance. Today I watched a movie on IFC called Lulu on the Bridge. It was a really good movie. Unlike all those other love stories out there, this one really captured what it is really like...the excitement, the initial awkwardness, the true nature of love. This is one of my favorite movies.
I watched this other movie called Dirty Pretty Things about a Nigerian man and a Muslim young woman trying to survive in London. They are illegal immigrants, and their employers know it, but do not say anything...cheap labor. Illegal immigrants often "donate" their kidneys in return for passports and new identies, but usually the surgeries are performed crudely, and the survival rate is low. The Muslim girl consents to having sex with the guy who produces passports for illegal immigrants. She loses her virginity. In the end, the Nigerian, who is a doctor, tricks the guy and ends up removing the guy's kidney, collects money from a man who "buys" the organs, and thus buys airline tickets for the Muslim woman and himself. The Muslim goes to New York; the Nigerian to see his seven year old daughter (he had to flee Nigeria years before because the government was trying to kill him). When the Muslim woman is getting onto the plane, she turns around and mouths "I love you" to the Nigerian. He mouths it back. I almost cried.
IFC movies are the greatest because they make things how they really are in life. They don't add all kinds of background music to enhance the mood...my emotions are stirred in deeper ways.
Other movies I have enjoyed recently are:
The Puffy Chair
Some people buy a chair on ebay and have to pick it up from Atlanta. I only saw a bit of this one, but it was crazy hilarious!
Tears of the Sun
This is a very touching movie. I think this says a lot about the SEALS and the US military. Just remember that we are fighting for so many reasons, and it is never right to dishonor our soldiers. This world is a crazy place, and I truely believe that it can be better...it will be better.
Man on Fire
Creasy values life, and gives his own for Pita. This is one of the most honorable things a human could do for another. I think I was touched by this movie because I, too, would give my life for something I believe in.
Pot, not marijuana, but coffee.
No parking, but I break the law.
Sporting the jersey. On the Phone. In the wind.
At work. Deep in thought.
Desperado, bitches!
Double bogie : (
Road signs are often confounding!
Just like Cortez
They were THIS BIG!
Across the table
My desk, where good things happen
Golfing it up.
5 comments:
An apparently a sap for coffee straight out of the pot. Coffee, not toilet.
Coffee = toilet. Coffee tastes like burnt, and I don't like burnt. My dad always told me that when I grow up, I'll like coffee, but I think that I'll just stay childish instead.
Here it is the first Monday of spring break and I am up already. It's basically like 6:13...except that the time changed and they are trying to trick us or something. Where, I ask, where did that hour go? Is this phenomenon an actual case of the theory of relativity?
I'd say I'll never be able to drink coffee, but I also said that about beer once upon a time. Maybe there is some type of grown up peer pressure to drink coffe. Hmm...
There is no pressure to drink coffee, for me. When I was like 7 or something I started drinking this decaf stuff called "Postum". You can find "Postum" right next the the coffee at the grocery store. It has a silly name, and reminds me of a little animal that scrounges in the trash.
Anyway, coffee is delicious. It tastes so good. I drank 8 cups once, and spent the evening jumping on the bed with a heartrate of 135. It was a swell time. I felt so alive. What I felt was probably similar to what Rose felt on "Titanic" when she was leaning out in the front of the ship with her arms outspread. Yes, this is what I feel when I drink 8 cups of coffee.
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