Some Thoughts

Good movies I've seen lately:
Batman Returns, especially every part with Catwoman, but also every other part.


Poltergeist



Fun fact: that is an actual dead body. Apparently they were cheaper to use than fake ones. They didn't tell the actress until afterward.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (non-Keanu Reeves-style)



Bad movies I've seen lately:
Captain America



OH AMERICA YOU ARE SO RIGHTEOUS WITH YOUR PECTORALS OH AMERICA THANK YOU FOR HAVING BLACK AND ASIAN MEN IN YOUR WWII CORPS YOU ARE SUCH A SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY oh wait there was no integration until the Korean War. I'm just saying.


Thoughts about Harry Potter and death:
HP starts out as the boy who lived. He ends as the boy who died. Accepting death = becoming "master" of death and therefore life, unlike Voldemort, who kills people so he can stay alive. Ergo, staying alive forever = death, while accepting that we all die = life. Or dying = life. I love this series.

Good books I've read recently:
Crown of Earth by Hilari Bell. Feuding religions between a pantheon of gods and a narrow god? Paganism vs. early Christianity/Judaism, which selected the most warlike God from the pantheon and made him Elohim? In a children's book? What? Awesome. Coolest book award.
True Grit--just as funny as the movie, if not more so, and also very serious. Violence = you will lose a body part, symbolically representing the toll violence takes on a person. The old West! You will pay for all your sins. Awesome.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris. True Grit is the only thing I've encountered that has made me laugh as hard as I did reading this book this whole semester.

Going through a graphic novel phase right now. Recommendations appreciated.

Why is it that when you put some political statement on facebook, some kid you barely knew in the eleventh grade jumps in? Why does he feel like he has to make a statement? Why did you feel like you had to make a statement? Isn't that why you were putting it up there in the first place--to spark a debate, even if you're doing it unconsciously? So isn't it your fault anyway, not necessarily his?

Supernatural: a show that was awful last season but that is kicking so much ass this season. Love it.

Some days you just gotta feel a little bit like Sammy Winchester. Especially days when you forget to take your birth control so your hormones are all screwed up and you are crying for no reason and someone is punching you in the grief bone and you are terribly, terribly, terribly alone. All this without even reading Maus--it's still sitting on the bed next to me, glaring and weeping and gnashing its teeth.




I promise that this doesn't mean I will not shoot every person. Supernatural just gives me FEELINGS.