Happy New Year
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shadowkatHappy New Year. In about an hour and a half.
Just finished watching the classic Marlon Brando/Karl Marlden flick - On The Waterfront, directed by Eli Kazan. Fascinating film about a longshoreman who stands up to a corrupt union.
Quite controversarial. If you haven't seen it - I highly recommend it.
This is, I suppose the time, to inundate my lj with lists of the best films, tv shows, books, etc of the decade and/or 2009. Have not decided if I will or won't. Am rather tired of lists to be honest. And I'm moody, what I love today, I may well hate tomorrow and vice versa.
Can't say I'm going to miss 2009 or this past decade that much. It was a painful one for me. Lots of broken glass to step over and through and in barefeet most of the way. I still bear the scares, even though they are well-hidden from view, and few see or know of them but me. I guess you could say I came out ahead, but such things are relative, and dependent on pov.
I have a better job than I did in 2000, am making 40% more than I did then. I suppose in this horrible economic climate (when hasn't it been?), that is something to be proud of. And I think I found a way of dealing with the monster that is the internet, the central point of the information revolution. Letting it neither consume me nor deter me. Neither embracing, nor discarding. Just sinking occassionally in it - using it as a means of exploring a new way to write and communicate.
As far as new year's resolutions are concerned - mine are rather simple this time around.
New Year's serves as sort of a marker in time, a time to reassess where we've been and where we are going next. To peel off the bandaids, and start aknew. But the tune that comes to mind as I approach this new year and next decade is a Mel Brooks ditty from his play the Twelve Chairs - "Hope for the Best, but Expect the Worste", and I can't help but smile as I envision a balding Frank Langella dancing to it.
Am a bit leery of writing down any resolutions for fear of breaking them. But what the hell:
*to treat the new year and decade as an uncharted adventure filled with interesting and unforseen and untried opportunities -- since my plans tend to go against my fated path and therefore blow up in my face
*to go to the gym, not so much to lose weight as to keep fit, and strong
*to not respond to comments, posts, responses online or off that hurt or bruise whether intentional or unintentional with anything more than a polite smile or thank you. Life is too short to waste time arguing over trivalities.
Others, and I do have others, I shall keep to myself.
Here's hoping the next decade and new year are kind to you, wherever you may be on life's jagged highway.
Just finished watching the classic Marlon Brando/Karl Marlden flick - On The Waterfront, directed by Eli Kazan. Fascinating film about a longshoreman who stands up to a corrupt union.
Quite controversarial. If you haven't seen it - I highly recommend it.
This is, I suppose the time, to inundate my lj with lists of the best films, tv shows, books, etc of the decade and/or 2009. Have not decided if I will or won't. Am rather tired of lists to be honest. And I'm moody, what I love today, I may well hate tomorrow and vice versa.
Can't say I'm going to miss 2009 or this past decade that much. It was a painful one for me. Lots of broken glass to step over and through and in barefeet most of the way. I still bear the scares, even though they are well-hidden from view, and few see or know of them but me. I guess you could say I came out ahead, but such things are relative, and dependent on pov.
I have a better job than I did in 2000, am making 40% more than I did then. I suppose in this horrible economic climate (when hasn't it been?), that is something to be proud of. And I think I found a way of dealing with the monster that is the internet, the central point of the information revolution. Letting it neither consume me nor deter me. Neither embracing, nor discarding. Just sinking occassionally in it - using it as a means of exploring a new way to write and communicate.
As far as new year's resolutions are concerned - mine are rather simple this time around.
New Year's serves as sort of a marker in time, a time to reassess where we've been and where we are going next. To peel off the bandaids, and start aknew. But the tune that comes to mind as I approach this new year and next decade is a Mel Brooks ditty from his play the Twelve Chairs - "Hope for the Best, but Expect the Worste", and I can't help but smile as I envision a balding Frank Langella dancing to it.
Am a bit leery of writing down any resolutions for fear of breaking them. But what the hell:
*to treat the new year and decade as an uncharted adventure filled with interesting and unforseen and untried opportunities -- since my plans tend to go against my fated path and therefore blow up in my face
*to go to the gym, not so much to lose weight as to keep fit, and strong
*to not respond to comments, posts, responses online or off that hurt or bruise whether intentional or unintentional with anything more than a polite smile or thank you. Life is too short to waste time arguing over trivalities.
Others, and I do have others, I shall keep to myself.
Here's hoping the next decade and new year are kind to you, wherever you may be on life's jagged highway.
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