Have you ever had one of those days? weeks? years? I can’t seem to get myself to envision anything I want to do, but I would like to see the following films:
Tulpan because, as Roger Ebert says, “there has to come a time in everyone’s life when they see a deadpan comedy about the yurt dwellers of Kazakhstan.”
Away We Go because I want to be young, in love, and pregnant. (Hey! There are some things I want to do!)
The Hangover because it sounds fun, and I like that guy from The Office.
The Land of the Lost because it sounds really weird and all the reviewers hate it and the show freaked me out when I was a kid.
Wow, just saw it. POWERFUL film. My friend and I saw it and we both got a feeling at a certain point in the movie- it just made us want to be kinder to people. It really reminds me of the quote that says to be kind to people- you never know what battles they are fighting.
The movie was awesome, and now I’m thinking maybe it should have won the Oscar. There is just one thing that ruined the realism of it for me- and it was SUCH a real movie. Not that I know anything about the wrestling world, but in the way it portrays desperation it was very real. There is a song in the movie that says you have your “balls to the wall.” Yay, even sans balls, I’ve felt that. This movie shows it. Not in the wrestling moments, but in the shadowed walk down the hall in your trailer moments. I can relate to those moments of thinking, “What the hell am I going to do?”
The one unrealistic bit: the “broken down” stripper is Marissa Tomei. Please. I love Marissa Tomei and emotionally she portrayed the woman, but she is beautiful and delicate and a woman who looks like her is not going to be found in that trailer trash strip joint. It would have made the movie more powerful if someone who actually looked like they could be rejected as a middle aged stripper was cast in that role. PAlease. Just like Mickey Rourke’s body and face made him so believalbe in his role as a broken down wrestler. I blame the discrepepncy on the fact the it was a male director.
STILL worth seeing! Now I’m going to give the whole ending of the movie away so… read more here only if you’ve already seen it. Read the rest of this entry »
I used to buy my faith in worship,
But then my chance to get to Heaven sli-i-pped
I used to worry about the future
But then I threw my caution to the wind.
I had no reason to be care free
No no no, until I took a trip to the other side of town
Yeah yeah yeah, you know I heard that boogie rhythm
Hey- I had no choice but to get down down down down.
CHORUS
Dance, nothing left for me to do but dance,
All these bad times I’m going through just dance
Got canned heat in my heels tonight baby
I feel the thunder see the lightning
I know this anger’s heaven sent.
So I’ve got to hang out all my hang-ups
Because on the boogie I feel so hell bent
It’s just an instant gut reaction, that I got
I know I never ever felt like this before,
I dont know what to do
But then that’s nothing new,
Stuck between hell and high water
I need a cure to make it through.
Hey- dance, yeah nothing left for me to do but dance
All these bad times I’m going through just dance,
Hey, got canned heat in my heels tonight baby
You I got canned heat in my heels
You know this boogie is for real.
Only the wind can blow the answer
And she cries to me when I’m asleep
She says you know that you can go much faster
I know that peoples’ talk can be so cheap
Yeah yeah
I got this voodoo child inveined on me
I’m gonna use my power to ascend
You know I got these running heels to use
Sometimes there’s no way to lose
I was born to run
And built to last
You’ve never seen my feet
cause’ they can go so fast
Dance…yeah, hey!
Nothing left for me to do but
Dance
All these bad times I’m going through just
Dance…Hey
Got Canned Heat in my heels tonight, baby
Dance!
Hey DJ
Let the music play
I’m gonna live this party life
Hey DJ
Throw my cares away
I’m gonna live this party life
Hey DJ
Let the music play
I’m gonna live this party life
Hey DJ
Throw my cares away
I’m gonna live this party life
Canned heat in my heels tonight!
You know that this boogie if for real.
Got so much Canned Heat in my heels
Gonna dance, gonna dance my blues away tonight
Whoooooooo!
You know, you know this boogie
This boogie is for real
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Lyrics
Will somebody wear me to the fair?
Will a lady pin me in her hair?
Will a child find me by a stream?
Kiss my petals and weave me through a dream
For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every man [...]
Our Week O’ Comedy begins with Ellen Degeneres. There are some great moments in this special called Here and Now! If you only have time to watch one clip, I reccomend Clip #4! HILARIOUS!
Here & Now 1
I found a few articles today about giving yourself permission to succeed
Learn How to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed by Noah St. John
Forgive Your Inner Gollum, a blog post by Horse Pig Cow, via My Curious Life.
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