- not having to know why or having to justify to myself the writing of this list
- watching a movie and afterwards going on the internet and reading other people's reviews and opinions about it, to see how my interpretation fits in with others. It's like discussing it with friends but on a much larger and more thought-out scale*.
- seeing beautiful women, in real life. Naturally beautiful, not classically or put-on.
- laughing at something with people and knowing that most others wouldn't. It's like finding a treasure (though I can't say I've ever literally found a pirate's treasure).
- things that someone has spent time creating without regard for the status or level of respect it will bring them, but because they wanted to make it.
- things and created representations of things without complication; simple and honest, be they brutal pains and ugliness or innocent dreams and joys.
- insights beyond the superficial, to the heart of matters, even when that heart is of no practical use for the many.
- having time to do nothing (the opposite of having no time for anything).
- indulging in base pleasures, chocolate, tv, sex.
- losing myself to music / finding the creative spirit in music commonly ignored or unknown.
- cuddling, kissing, petting, playing with a partner.
- big stories in small spaces.
- long, hot showers.
- skiing on snow (though I've only done it once).
- when doing a set task that is mindless, repetative and boring, doing it properly and completely (not to be confused with a liking of or desire to seek out those kinds of tasks).
- completing a computer game. passing a test or exam.
- the feeling of the belief you may well be genuinely helping someone.
- having the belief in having made the right decision.
- being romantic for someone.
- playful absurdity and creatively/expressively adjusted normality.
- bravery in the face of what is expected.
- saving something. savouring something.
- the drifting to and from consciousness and sleep beside one you love.
- the good surprises.
*My desire of this kind following disappointment at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is how this list got started.
3 comments:
I don't think there can be any real disappointment with THHGTTG for me. I went into the film knowing that DA wrote the script, and that it's not a version of either the book, the radio show or the tv series - merely another version. Furthermore, I think it kept the spirit of what I conceive to be THHGTTG, and the central jokes. On the flipside, 1hr 50min is rather short for a feature film today, and if they had kept up the pace, and made it 2.20 or something, they could have fit so much more in. I missed the scenes at the HQ of the guide particularly.
To comment on your viewing other people's comments, I assume you refer to the imdb message boards... Man, they are full of idiots. And trolls. However, reading some of the debate over Sin City (see it when it comes - it's fucking awesome) was hilarous. Myself, I'm a trivia and goofs junkie. Usually, I can keep myself from reading them until I've seen the film, but with Sin City, I had to know what scene Tarantino directed...
/Vanja
i like cotton plywood beef-scratch lives full of cornish light squeedle pop fandango red light blue light all the different whites sprinkled higgledy-piggledy nonce-cap tubular swirly kaleidoscope piglets.
this looks nicer in my head than perhaps these associations would lead you to believe.
peas out, for sho'
paul
False or put on women can be nice, too...
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