Knitting and Chick Flicks
Well, that does it. Grayce helped me figure out that I slept too much earlier today, and now I can't sleep at all. I keep sneezing and waking myself up...and I can't call in sick again tomorrow. My typical insomnia cure consists of reading Thucydides because good god, there's only so much of that one can take. But right now I'm not in the right mood. So I'm knitting.
Everythings a metaphor if you try, but I like knitting because it reminds me that the more I try to control it and make it perfect, the harder I make it for myself. Now I just need to work on being happy with the mistakes here and there.
Oh, Mr. Dissapointing may actually have some promise after all. I think I tend to shut people out too easily...usually after judging them too fast. There's a line from Eternal Sunshine..."most people aren't worth my time." or something like that. For me thats true, but I also tend to decide that immediately. (wonder if thats why my morality score was 10.) Anyway, I'm going to try to give him a chance. I'd like to avoid getting hurt, but hey...no pain no gain right?
Deep thoughts at 4am.
8am update. I just remembered that I watched Miss Congeniality on Tivo yesterday because Ali swore on a newly-armed cow that it was hilarious. It was absolutely horrid. This is also after we rented The Prince and Me, which was also horrid. And after a slew of chick flicks which Ali LOVES and I just go WTF!!!
Does anyone else think chick flicks are evil? I'd lump them with smut (romance novels) in the how-to-give-yourself-a-major-friggin-complex category. I'm not saying I don't enjoy said category...I just think it should come with a warning label. WARNING: Literary or visual consumption of this here smut will lead to unrealistically high expectations, consumer whore-ism, and increased consumption of Ben and Jerry's. No guy could ever live up to these fictionalized Adonis-es, who magically are absolutely gorgeous, well-endowed(romanace novels), gifted in bed, and yet sensitive and caring enough to truly, truly understand our beautiful (of course!) heroine. And what do they tell females they should do in order to get a male?
Miss Congeniality
My sis raved about this movie. I was horrified. But then, my beef had more to do with the unrealistic portrait of the FBI (no federal agent is going to run lights and sirens and flash a badge to get to the front of the line at Starbucks...so freakin stupid I didn't even find it funny). And yeah, the whole "relationship" was lame and frankly a little offensive (she's supposedly been harboring this secret attraction to a guy who's a total pig and treats her like crap? come on), so the flick's got that not going for it, too.
My opinion...
I will agree with you in the sense that I do think many chick flicks bring up expectations to an unrealistic level. Most people don't talk as smoothly as they show in films. Most people also aren't painted up so perfectly as they are in those films as well. But I also feel like that about most major media that is geared towards women... is always showing what women should be like or look like... when in reality most women I know are cooler and still good looking without having to adhere to those standards set by them in magazines, movies, etc.
Chick flicks if taken for just the fun of it though, whatever... to each their own. It's like me watching a gory movie or action movie that has next to no plot. Not because I wish I was there... or doing those things... but mindless entertainment can be fun. And I don't think there's anything wrong for women liking chick flicks... only that women shouldn't expect real life to follow closely to chick flicks. :)