Ok, so me and wife are losers (mostly me, but who cares). We have this little game where we watch one movie and then "link" it with another movie by some actor or actress in the movie, like Hackers links to Tomb Raider through Angilina Jolie. Anyways, we were watching The Seventh Sign and I checked imdb to see if anyone linked. Well, if there were multiple links, I already knew Michael Biehn linked it to Tombstone, but there could always be others.
So, Jürgen Prochnow (wierd, had to find a special to show the ü) and in the movies he has been in, I noticed In the Mouth of Madness. Instantly, I was like, I need this movie. I remember the first time I watched it thinking it was just damn great, and that if anyone was to ever ask me for a scary movie I would point them to it. It was the only movie I have ever seen that I would have considered even remotly scary.
Ok, now while I still think the same, I love it for a new reason now, and for those who have never seen it this may spoil a few things for you. But it is when the main character realizes his life is a lie, which happens in the last like minute of the movie, he just starts laughing uncontrolably. Too me it is just fucking great to be able to look at every thing you have ever done, every memory you have, and laugh them away as you realize how absurd you really are.
People need to live more like that. How many times have you seen someone who believes so strongly in something that once their mind was changed about it became wreaked. Kinda like the parents who find out their kid is gay, or the die hard christian who decides that there is not a god, and they end up in therapy cause they can't live with themselves anymore. If your kid is gay, who cares. If he is happy, love him and respect him just like you would if he turned out exactly how you wanted, you are only a failure as a parent if you can't do that. Faith giving you trouble (hmm kinda touchy subject with The Passion out in theatres right now, suddenly everyone has an opinion on religeon), don't worry about it. Going to hit this from two angles so try to follow along. First up, by definition (starting with def 2) you have no reason to believe in the first place, other than the fact that some other person told you to, or maybe more correctly, helped you to see. Thus faith in God sadly indirectly implies faith in man, and the longer you live the harder that gets. So questioning is well, almost natural. People in marketing and retail think of consumers as sheep, they know just how to lead you to what they want you to buy. We don't call them shepards when we flock to the shiney, full color spread missals trying to sell us a new video card, but give us a little wine and we will sell ourselves on eternal life. Hehe, kinda negative coming form a believer, isn't it. Let's go for some humorous. (now going to def 4) Faith is a theological virtue... so is chastity, so why do so many Christians have SO MANY kids (youngest of five here)? Besides, think about it this way (guess we will be a little positive for a second), God loves you, even if you didn't quite turn out how he would have liked you to. (Yes, that means God loves gay people to, so grow the fuck up.)
Well, that paragraph ended up being much too long. Oh well, guess I should continue. If people stopped taking themselves so damned seriously, they would probably be better off. I am not saying tragic events are, well, tragic (they got that name for a reason), I am just saying that with the majority of the people around, everything is WAY TOO fucking tragic, even if it is not a big deal at all. We all take our jobs too seriously, or our roles in a realationship or community.
Insert quote from The Crow: "This is the realy real world. There ain't
no comin' back."
Follow up with the point: Learn to enjoy things a little more, don't take
things at face value, and laugh, like out loud, at at least two people a day.
Just make sure you are one of them.
Now that I have just spent the past few paragraphs pretending that I am important enough to tell you how to live you lives, I am going to reread it and laugh at all the typos and discontinuous thoughs.
