so here we are with the days getting shorter and the nights getting longer. daylight savings time just around the corner, where you go to work with the sun barely coming up, and leave work with it going back down. where does the day go? off to watch the stock market falling deeper and deeper into the small intestines of hell, of course!
just another monday.....?
so if you haven’t been laid off from your shitty paying job just yet (or even better if you have!) maybe you’re looking for a little something to fall into to take your mind off of how much things suck…here is peanut st. cosmo to provide you, dear reader, with some escape!!!
i myself like a nice dark movie here and there. a few of my personal favorites are donnie darko and closer, so due to these kind of selections, my netflix(dotcom!) was kind enough to recommend a little movie like this:
wristcutters: a love story, despite being about suicide, is surprising uplifting. i hate being one of those people that spoil movies, so i’m going to keep this description brief. as it’s lead is patrick fugit, who you may remember from the movie, almost famous. (benjamin, please do not launch into how much you hate cameron crowe.) and also featuring the lovely shannyn sossamon, as well as will arnett, who could even make an infomercial entertaining. i haven’t enjoyed something with such a serious kind of subject matter in a long time…..
another wise choice was something that slipped totally under the radar. it’s called married life.
as most adults are familiar with the dealings of long term relationships and how wonderful they start and slow decline to shit, we understand the wandering eye, the desire to end this oatmeal bland relationship and take up with the next PYT that comes your way. this is a great movie with twists and turns where i was never really sure who to root for. and, as i hear a lot of guys like her….
to make up to break up, to make up....?
if movies isn’t quite your thing, i find books to be the another good road for distraction. a writer i’ve enjoyed for a long time, but just recently got a better understanding of is jonathan franzen. most recently, i’ve finished reading his group of essays, “how to be alone.” usually, i have a hard time staying engaged with short stories or essays. this book was a long read, compared with the speed that i can finish a novel, but it was different in the sense of how i could identify with franzen and his character formulation. the very first of his books i read was, “the corrections.” if you’re not familiar with it, the novel tells the story of two midwestern parents who raise two sons and a daughter. to me it shows that dysfunction is the new functional and no family is perfect, but has it’s bright shiny parts that makes it stand out from others. i’ve enjoyed it so much, i’ve shoved it off onto other readers, often times at knife point, to make them love it as much as i have. in reading “the corrections” before reading “how to be alone,” i came to understand how much of franzen’s own upbringing he pulls into his writing. in the corrections, the older son gary hasn’t realized how much he has become like his own withdrawn father. in a few essays in “how to be alone,” a reader can pick up on franzen’s own conservativeness over the rest of society and their need to over share and let their own thoughts be common knowledge to anyone within listening distance of them and their bluetooth. if this sounds like something you might enjoy, pick it up and give it a try. i have lots of kitchen knives that could help change your mind.
well, if this post hasn’t thoroughly depressed you….not to worry! today was only monday…you still have four more days until your weekend. if this asteroid isn’t the end of us all….muah ha ha ha ha!!!!!
thursday....roughly.....?
