Ohmigosh!!!! I just had heaven on a bun! Pastramiburger greasebucket
fries from The Hat and yummmmmmmmmmm. If I were a cat I'd walk around
myself twice and plop myself down for a nap. Instead, the human me has
to work. *sigh*
On a different note, driving home from
Thanksgiving Dinner, a few fun essays were read on NPR's "This I
Believe." Each person talked about what they do believe in.
There's a fun one about the Pizza guy. Check it out:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4651531
Bye for now. Happy Thanksgiving and great holidays.
Merrily,
:)
25 November 2005
11 November 2005
Innocent Childhood and Netflix galore
As a child, I grew up reading books, doing school stuff, playing outside, and watching television. Didn't go out to see movies much, they cost money. Didn't rent movies much...we got a VCR the year of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and renting cost money too.
A relatively normal childhood for a child in America or at least I thought it was a normal childhood. Sometimes what we perceive and what others perceive can differ greatly.
I perceive Netflix as an amazing concept. I don't have to leave home, and can rent movies I wouldn't usually pay money to rent but interest me an inkling. Plus, the queue factor...that's all that needs to be said.
I was adding some movies to my list when somehow it came up at work that I'd never seen Citizen Kane, or The Graduate, or Animal House, or Jaws, or The Godfather, or Taxi Driver, or Chinatown, or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...and the list goes on & on.
Horrified, my friends and co-workers starting throwing more and more movies to add to my queue. I started wondering-- what on Earth did I spend my youth doing? Where the heck did everyone else find the time to see these movies when I didn't? And, how the heck and I going to find time to watch these movies now?
My friends and co-workers now perceive my youth as anything but normal. They've got me wondering about it too. I remember dirt trails and biking thorough the neighborhoods a lot. I remember daydreaming and looking at tadpoles in the mud. But thanks to my friends, I've also found myself lacking basic knowledge of pop culture in the United States.
So,if there are any must-see films that you think I may have missed(no porn or scary movies please), feel free to comment while I search my memory for what I did with the rest of my childhood...
A relatively normal childhood for a child in America or at least I thought it was a normal childhood. Sometimes what we perceive and what others perceive can differ greatly.
I perceive Netflix as an amazing concept. I don't have to leave home, and can rent movies I wouldn't usually pay money to rent but interest me an inkling. Plus, the queue factor...that's all that needs to be said.
I was adding some movies to my list when somehow it came up at work that I'd never seen Citizen Kane, or The Graduate, or Animal House, or Jaws, or The Godfather, or Taxi Driver, or Chinatown, or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...and the list goes on & on.
Horrified, my friends and co-workers starting throwing more and more movies to add to my queue. I started wondering-- what on Earth did I spend my youth doing? Where the heck did everyone else find the time to see these movies when I didn't? And, how the heck and I going to find time to watch these movies now?
My friends and co-workers now perceive my youth as anything but normal. They've got me wondering about it too. I remember dirt trails and biking thorough the neighborhoods a lot. I remember daydreaming and looking at tadpoles in the mud. But thanks to my friends, I've also found myself lacking basic knowledge of pop culture in the United States.
So,if there are any must-see films that you think I may have missed(no porn or scary movies please), feel free to comment while I search my memory for what I did with the rest of my childhood...
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