rose-colored glasses? better than living blind
Soooo…. yeah, sorry I missed the party at the saucer tonight. There was at least one person I’m sorta curious about meeting, but there was also one person I really didn’t want to run into, which I guess might have have washed out in the balance.. but then at least three or four of the people I always want to see couldn’t make it… so at the end of the day my agoraphobic tendencies won and I committed myself to a night of playing piano alone in the dark.
What? Don’t groan, don’t worry about it. It is what it is, I am who I am.
Of course I can only play so much piano, and I filled out most of the night with a Netflix contribution, watching the movie Primary Colors. And there were certainly some thoughts and lessons to be drawn that paralleled both the good and the bad of our current attempt to elect President Obama. Along those lines I had a number of bright comments that piled into my head as I watched, but at the end I was only left with the bits about how Stanton was “flawed but essentially decent”, and — well, I can’t find the exact quotes at the moment, but there was great bit about how the protagonist saw Stanton as a liar who agreed with him, even though he lied to get elected.
It’s hard to argue with that.
On a side note, if Hillary Clinton was half as good an actress as Emma Thompson, the world just might look very differently now. Though, hell, I’m almost convinced that if Hillary hadn’t let her ego and ambition pass on the chance to run in 2004, the world still might look very differently now.
Oh and I meant to add — Travolta’s performance as Bill Clinton (err… Stanton wink wink) — well I won’t go so far as to call it extraordinary or Oscar worthy or anything like that, but it was good enough I think to serve as something of an apology for most of the rest of his career :)
Hey, I was there - which totally would have made it worthwhile. Or something like that.
You were avoiding Squirrel Queen, weren’t you? :) (I keed.)
I missed you. It was one of the good meet ups. But playing piano in the dark sounds lovely as well.
Sending many good thoughts to you.
I regret that I couldn’t come also. I enjoyed talking to you last time though Jon. Hopefully, we’ll all be able to meet again.
Yep, I’m definitely sorry I missed you all, we’ll have to make it up another time.
He certainly owes no apology for Pulp Fiction!! The rest… maybe.
Well, yeah, true. That’s why I said “most” :)