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Welcome to my 50th post! Confetti!!!
Well, it’s gone. That’s the end of that. It’s time to move on from here.
I went and got my hair cut this afternoon. By cut I mean completely stricken from my person. I removed two years worth of hair growth and now it sits in a bundle on my desk, detached from me forever.
It took me a long time to gather up the strength to go to the salon, sit down in the chair and actually go through with it. I’m talking at least two months of dancing around it, thinking about it, but never finding the time or motivation or whatever it took to actually go through it. Until today, when I just woke up, decided I would just do it, no more thinking about it, just purely and simply deciding to go and do it. It’s funny how it’s not a complicated thing, really, to just up and decide that yes this thing will happen. You let the (imagined) weight of it fester in your mind, and you start to second-guess yourself.
Anyway, I’m so happy I did it. It’s cliché, but I feel like a completely new man. I think I look like a real person now, a respectable person, not some caricature or anything like that. My viking-self is of course sad that my hair’s gone, but he’ll get over it soon enough. This was meant to happen. It feels like the realest thing I’ve done in a while.
So I don’t know where “Time Magazine” gets the idea that they are a major authority on cinema, but they somehow decided that publishing their own list of the “Best 100 Movies of All Time” was warranted. I really don’t have a lot of bad things to say. I’m overjoyed to see them put “Blade Runner,” “Brazil,” and “City of God” on the list. Lumping all three “Lord of the Rings” films into one is kind of cheating; those films are overrated anyway.
There are plenty of the usual choices, and that’s perhaps the biggest gripe I could have about this list; it’s just too safe. There’s no ‘omg’ choices to get people talking. It’s all the same choices you always see on lists like this, in fact this list looks eerily similar to AFI’s.
OK, I take it back. There is one choice on this list that definitely puzzles me, and it’s the “The Fly” from 1986. I’ve never seen that film, and probably never will given how much I dislike bugs and horror films in general. So perhaps I shouldn’t judge, but really? “The Fly?” Let’s even operate on the presumption that this specific slot is reserved for a film that falls in the sci-fi/horror genre. Are you trying to tell me that you chose “The Fly” for that slot over Ridley Scott’s “Alien?” That’s just silly. Stick to politics, please.
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