"I don't know why... It makes me sad."
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mollyringleToday, a collection of totally unconnected thoughts.
- Requiescant in pace, Columbia and crew. What happened to the shuttle hasn't affected my everyday life, but whenever I stop and watch something about it on TV (like people putting flowers and cards outside NASA), I get kind of teary. It's not scary and twisted and angering like 9/11; that falling-star footage of the Columbia's demise is almost beautiful compared to the grotesque orange-black-gray collision and collapse at the WTC. I would never wish the astronauts' death on anyone, and would never prefer to die 200,000 feet above the Earth myself (I don't even want to be 200,000 feet above the Earth, ever), but I salute those brave enough to risk everything for the experience.
- Although I no longer detest the Sacramento Valley, and although I now admit that it is not quite the ugliest nor the most boring place in the world, and although good things have happened to me while living here...I still think back on Seattle as this exciting, cool, sparkling wonderland of saltwater, skyscrapers, and evergreen-covered hills, where I used to live until getting thrown out of Eden. Must return to the Northwest after this. I am out of my element here.
- Extroverts torture us introverts, daily. They don't mean to, but they do. And we're so introverted we can't even bring ourselves to complain. I will probably write an entire entry on this alone someday.
- We saw Catch Me If You Can the other night. Quite liked it. It was funny and interesting, and all the actors were good. And, damn it, I have to put Leo diCaprio back on my "pretty" list. He was on it about six years ago, after Romeo + Juliet, but then I removed him in disgust during the Titanic teenybopper hype. (Anyway, he wasn't all that good in Titanic.) But this! He did such a good job, being perhaps the sweetest and most likable criminal I've ever seen. And is pretty, of course. He always was. Damn it.
- Getting a little too sad over the rumored ending of the RotK film. Someone reports that it will be Sam returning alone to Bag End after saying goodbye to Frodo at the Grey Havens. He hugs his little daughter; he probably says, "Well, I'm back"; fade to black. Sure, as a reader of the book I know that sixty years later he goes across the sea and rejoins Frodo. But somehow it seems like if they don't put that in the movie, it won't really happen. Which is a dumb thing to think, and why should I care so much anyway? Just a story. Repeat to self: just a story. Probably should go find another novel to read and get obsessed with. Yeah, like I have time for that.
- Requiescant in pace, Columbia and crew. What happened to the shuttle hasn't affected my everyday life, but whenever I stop and watch something about it on TV (like people putting flowers and cards outside NASA), I get kind of teary. It's not scary and twisted and angering like 9/11; that falling-star footage of the Columbia's demise is almost beautiful compared to the grotesque orange-black-gray collision and collapse at the WTC. I would never wish the astronauts' death on anyone, and would never prefer to die 200,000 feet above the Earth myself (I don't even want to be 200,000 feet above the Earth, ever), but I salute those brave enough to risk everything for the experience.
- Although I no longer detest the Sacramento Valley, and although I now admit that it is not quite the ugliest nor the most boring place in the world, and although good things have happened to me while living here...I still think back on Seattle as this exciting, cool, sparkling wonderland of saltwater, skyscrapers, and evergreen-covered hills, where I used to live until getting thrown out of Eden. Must return to the Northwest after this. I am out of my element here.
- Extroverts torture us introverts, daily. They don't mean to, but they do. And we're so introverted we can't even bring ourselves to complain. I will probably write an entire entry on this alone someday.
- We saw Catch Me If You Can the other night. Quite liked it. It was funny and interesting, and all the actors were good. And, damn it, I have to put Leo diCaprio back on my "pretty" list. He was on it about six years ago, after Romeo + Juliet, but then I removed him in disgust during the Titanic teenybopper hype. (Anyway, he wasn't all that good in Titanic.) But this! He did such a good job, being perhaps the sweetest and most likable criminal I've ever seen. And is pretty, of course. He always was. Damn it.
- Getting a little too sad over the rumored ending of the RotK film. Someone reports that it will be Sam returning alone to Bag End after saying goodbye to Frodo at the Grey Havens. He hugs his little daughter; he probably says, "Well, I'm back"; fade to black. Sure, as a reader of the book I know that sixty years later he goes across the sea and rejoins Frodo. But somehow it seems like if they don't put that in the movie, it won't really happen. Which is a dumb thing to think, and why should I care so much anyway? Just a story. Repeat to self: just a story. Probably should go find another novel to read and get obsessed with. Yeah, like I have time for that.
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Date: 2003-02-03 12:10 pm (UTC)Requiescant in pace, Columbia and crew. What happened to the shuttle hasn't affected my everyday life, but whenever I stop and watch something about it on TV (like people putting flowers and cards outside NASA), I get kind of teary. It's not scary and twisted and angering like 9/11; that falling-star footage of the Columbia's demise is almost beautiful compared to the grotesque orange-black-gray collision and collapse at the WTC. I would never wish the astronauts' death on anyone, and would never prefer to die 200,000 feet above the Earth myself (I don't even want to be 200,000 feet above the Earth, ever), but I salute those brave enough to risk everything for the experience.
I WRITE: what beautiful imagery to such tragedy....i woke up that afternoon and was told by my mother that the columbia had exploded....i chose not to watch it on television....i understood through my own senses what had happened....and felt the grief of loss, yet again....
i saw the challenger explode, the towers come down...
the ether of tragedy still permeated my soul...without a tangible image in front of my eyes...
and...
there is beauty that eminates from tragedy...
like the words you wrote,
like the image you put in its place for a moment
YOU WROTE:
Although I no longer detest the Sacramento Valley, and although I now admit that it is not quite the ugliest nor the most boring place in the world, and although good things have happened to me while living here...I still think back on Seattle as this exciting, cool, sparkling wonderland of saltwater, skyscrapers, and evergreen-covered hills, where I used to live until getting thrown out of Eden. Must return to the Northwest after this. I am out of my element here.
I WRITE:
i am considering moving to the pacific coast....i need sunshine, the ocean, the power of the earth and air and water all converging...the beauty to fill my eyes and lungs
not to only dream about it in my waking and sleeping hours....but to be there
in the flesh
which is what this earth trip is about...
the flesh following the spirit
and becoming whole
becoming one
thank you for your inspiring shares....
namaste
daya
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Date: 2003-02-03 02:33 pm (UTC)Yes! Yes! Oh jeez that would be so non-enough. Especially if they've scoured the Scouring of the Shire. I just re-read ROTK while in Florida and there is so, so much great stuff in there, not even including all the TTT stuff that they now must pack in.
I'm in an anxious spin over which things will be removed. How much of the Houses of Healing scenes, how much of Cormallen, the trip Back, the White Tree... Ai! Ai! Ai!
*cling!*
Date: 2003-02-03 04:21 pm (UTC)Introversion is not a crime! Vive la introverts!!!
*cough*
~Holly
Well, I'm back
Date: 2003-02-03 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-03 08:19 pm (UTC)This extrovert apologises. I have a peculiar problem. I am extroverted and I have a natural aversion to people. I really do not like people but I have to be around them. *grumbles about how it is unfair*
I am not a Leo fan either. I think that he looks good in Catch Me If You Can though. *ponders*
*peek*
Date: 2003-02-03 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-04 05:29 am (UTC)And RotK... *growl* they better not! grrr! Peter Jackson needs to be a little more careful about sticking to canon in the next film... oh lord please let him do it right...
I find myself in complete agreement with you again. dang how that happens! ;D
Re: *cling!*
Date: 2003-02-04 08:03 am (UTC)I'm not a fan of extroverts either. One day, when I'm King, I'll put all the extroverts in a small room, and they can try to talk over eachother for the rest of their lives. MUAHAHAHAHA... *cough* sorry. Or! I'll put them all in one of those self contained habitations like penguins are in at the zoo. Then us introverts can go watch them interact safely, behind a three inch thick reverse mirror.
*yawns* I think I'll become king after a quick nap.
Re: *cling!*
Date: 2003-02-04 08:24 am (UTC)I like your ideas for extrovert zoos! Does that mean that all the penguins will be out mingling with us introverts?
Become king soon, all these social expectations are killing me!
~Holly
Re: Well, I'm back
Date: 2003-02-04 08:25 am (UTC)Ending...
Date: 2003-02-04 10:43 am (UTC)That's how the Swedish ROTK book ends... You have to read all the extra matereal and such in a separatre book... They decided to move it for some strange reason...
Re: *cling!*
Date: 2003-02-04 11:34 am (UTC)Re: *cling!* penguins are cool!
Date: 2003-02-04 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-04 01:05 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2003-02-04 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-04 01:09 pm (UTC):)
Re: *cling!*
Date: 2003-02-04 01:13 pm (UTC)*snert*
You guys are mad. And it's quite entertaining.
Love the "autonomous collective" icon, btw.
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Date: 2003-02-04 01:38 pm (UTC)You called it! I couldnt have said it better myself. ;)
Re: *cling!* penguins are cool!
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Date: 2003-02-05 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-06 04:10 am (UTC)Re: Ending...
Date: 2003-02-06 04:13 am (UTC)i mean, come on, they put in all that extra stuff about arwen and aragorn from the appendixs!
Sam is hero, definatly!
Endings
Date: 2003-02-07 09:53 am (UTC)I was really concerned that they would cut off the film when Aragorn becomes king, and it is so triumphant. I was afraid that they wouldn't show the bittersweet homecoming and Frodo leaving. So that actually makes me really happy that they'll get as far as the actual end of the book. But maybe they'll do a montage scene at the end explaining what happens to the rest of them.
Hope you don't mind me popping by. I read your condensed Two Towers and have read some other recent journal entries and I was really intrigued. You're an interesting person.
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Date: 2003-02-08 12:27 am (UTC)Re: Endings
Date: 2003-02-08 02:15 pm (UTC)Yes, I do hope they'll have a voice-over at the end, or a series of subtitles or something, to tie up the loose ends. But I don't want to get my hopes up yet.
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Date: 2003-02-08 02:17 pm (UTC)