~giggle~ Pneumatic chairs are the bomb.AHEM, now that I have THAT outta my system we can move along, folks.
Ever partake of something the 20th time out and it still seems fresh and new to you? Something about it simply sparkles and it appeals to you on many levels?...I know you know that feeling. We all know that feeling about something in our lives; those of us who are incredibly fortunate have felt it from more than one aspect/in many respects. If you've never had it happen, don't worry. It will occur (even if it takes until your dying day).
One such thing for me is 'Lawn Dogs'. The fact that Sam Rockwell (some names are so FITTING) sets the old Lust Bust enroute notwithstanding, he is one fuck of a performer (sorry, Sam...that's the best way I coulda put it. I'm at a loss; how cliche). It simply loosens my jaw to know that I have never heard him credited as one of the hottest commodoties in Hollystrange. I mean Hollyweird. Nonono, it's Hollywood. Yeah, that's it: Hollywood.
So now you know one valuable thing about me: my true feelings about Hollywood. I'd make a shitty entertainment lawyer; or a great one, I dunno....
I should mention that part of the appeal is the character "Devon"; her fancy-schmancy hyphenated last name temporarily escapes me. Yuppies, SHEESH. "We are such full, interesting people that lead such full, interesting lives and live in such full, interesting houses with children who undoubtedly have full, interesting futures ahead of them and we should possess names that are just as full and interesting."**HEY, HERE'S AN IDEA....perhaps you should earn one more hyphen with each successive ten mil after the first five or so.**
ANYWAY, all kidding aside, I was telling you about Devon.... somebody who knew me as a child talked to some writers and I was incorporated in some aspects into this character. That's the only possible explanation....tooooo uncanny, mmmkay? These traits emerge and rub up against me with an air of familiarity that leaves me awestruck. How did they know that I would go out into the moonlight barely clothed on mild nights and look up at the unpolluted sky and feel all those places where I was not? To know that sorrow that accompanies a homesickness for a place you had never seen, a person you've never been? Does every little girl know talismans? Is it incorporated into the female makeup? Did we all climb trees and tie ribbons to each branch in need of a shiny piece of satin? Were/are there other young women that knew the disdain of their microsociety? I never pissed on my dad's car, but had I thought of it, I might've. I NEVER would've entered a stranger's house uninvited or unannounced; this was not from fear but from thinking it ill-mannered. I wouldn't have done the fly-in-the-cookie thing either. Why waste a perfectly good cookie? The dolls, the doll parts, the exacting-punishment-where-punishment-is due.....yeah, toned down a half a click it could've been me.
The self-created parallel storyline WAS me. Always ticking out the next string of words in whatever drama I was destined to lay to the page. Not an escape, not a way to enliven a dull existence (for it wasn't a dull one), just something that was. Like breathing or blinking. Simply an inherent part of the whole.
So watch 'Lawn Dogs' and know that it gets me right there, even if it doesn't do a damned thing for you. Then e-mail me with what holds your multi-layered magic. Or better yet, set up your own blog and tell the world.
Pee ess....I am almost NEVER satisfied with the endings that are unfittingly served to us, but there could not ever in the history of the planet been a more suitable and filling wrap to a story. TRULY.
