"They come up to me in the yard, these big, tough gangsters, with tears in their eyes, and they say 'Sir! We've never seen someone with such a perfect verdict against them!'"
@mrcompletely Right now, $125 is a choice. I've not worked more than a casual editing gig here and there for a year. Won't be recuperated enough from the last thing to work for a while.
A rock concert.
A month of weekly trips to my local art-house cinema watching old noir films, including going for a coffee and a cookie at the little bakery around the corner afterwards.
I'm passing on Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Norah Jones, and Krauss/Plant (which is fucken KILLING me) based on those economics.
Seeing it again Tuesday with people. I had to go alone the first time because I didn't want my friends to see me cry.
And l did cry.
Been waiting for that movie since l was in Grade 8, and that's a long fucken time ago.
And well aware there were multiple timelines on which l wasn't here to see it: One of the moments that killed me was when Paul says: "There's a narrow way through." That's exactly how my oncologist presented my case to me years ago.
@PaulInRainCity wow that's super heavy Paul ❤️ I feel exactly the same about having waited forever to see it and I can imagine a little of the other part. Glad you made it. I loved it too
JRR Tolkien's prose was unremarkable. He thought up great stories and excelled at world-building before that was really a thing, but the man couldn't write his way out of a brown paper bag.
@mrcompletely l just recently figured out that my "survivor's guilt" (...a common feature in long-haul survivors) is pretty sharply projected onto him.
Like, if had to be one of us...why did it play out this way?
Of course, the answer is that life is haphazard and devoid of any inherent meaning or purpose. Shit just happens.