It's around midnight and snowing like the dickens outside! I should be sleeping, but I'm listening to music and don't want to give up the groove! I've decided that I just need to listed to whatever Zach Braff is listening to. I love Joshua Radin and and starting to get into The Shins and other artists to be found in various Scrubs episodes and the Garden State soundtrack.
Speaking of Garden State, I just watched it for the third time in a week. It's Zach's first writer/director effort and I really loved it. The whole movie opens like a flower as Zach's character comes alive through the film. It starts out with a numbness that's not unlike that in Lost in Translation. I can relate to that feeling of detachment, where everyting around you seems to move in slow-motion and competes with the sound of the blood rushing through your head. "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now. The child has grown; the dream is gone."
Life is pretty good. Christmas is coming and we're wondering where we're going to find the money for presents. There things we'd like to get for friends and family, but we have to balance that desire with others. I'd like to make a fewe year-end contributions to causes. At the same time, we're trying to reduce our debt!! It's like we're the country, dealing with our own financial crisis! Still, God is good and we're are more blessed than most.
I just finished reading the short story, Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville. It was so Dickensian that I kept forgetting Melville was an American until the narrator would mention paying for something in dollars. It was good, but nothing spectacular. I haven't found another piece of fiction to read, yet. I may try some Nabokov again, or something like A Christmas Carol, to fit the season!
I've just started listening to my first song by Jump Little Children. It's pretty cool! Napster rules! Good night!
