Hommage

What to write about? Life? Music? Beer and boobies? Movies? Nothing at all? If you prefer the latter, then why the hell are you still reading this? Shoo! Away with you!

Let's start with movies and go on from there, we'll see what comes along. I just watched Life of Brian, officially chosen as funniest movie ever by some English magazine or newspaper. I have to agree with them. Although animation movies are getting funnier these days (normal comedies just keep getting worse) I still have to watch a movie that comes anywhere close to being as funny as Life of Brian. The humour in the film is just so stupid that it's brilliant really. Those conversations throughout the movie, you couldn't make that stuff up.

Brian: Excuse me, are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg: Fuck off!
[silence]
... We're the People's Front of Judea. Judean People's Front, tch!

Another magnificent movie I watched was Adaptation.. There's a dot in the movie title, so that's two dots in that sentence. The movie is about screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, performed by Nicolas Cage. The script of that movie is just awesome, one of the best I have ever seen. Once again, you couldn't make that stuff up. I'm not going to spoil any of the story because I recommend this movie if you liked the thoughts in this blog so far. The serious thoughts though, not the Stoopid ones. The Stoopid ones are cool but they're not as present in the movie. You do get to see boobies though.

So the main reason why I liked Adaption. so much was the recognizability. Not so much the characters themselves and what they did, but the thoughts they had. Most of the interesting thoughts in the film were told with voice-overs, although now and then the characters exchange interesting thoughts in real life too. I didn't really like the ending of the movie since Kaufman seems to contradict everything he has said before by turning the end into a small action movie. Some great moments come forth from that decision but I feel like it could have been just a wee bit better. But then, I'm not a screenwriter and Kaufman is, so I'm sure he made the right choice considering how absolutely great the rest of the movie was. So if you like my blog, watch this movie and chances are you'll find some connections between the two. Connections that obviously impressed me since it sort of felt like some of my posts had come to life on the screen. Great stuff.

Hmm. I planned on writing a lot more on Adaptation.. You know, like those old posts where I try to sound intelligent by saying stuff that makes you think about things. Now that was one vague sentence. But I just don't feel like writing that sort of stuff now. Perhaps I just feel that everything I want to say is portrayed in the movie or perhaps I have just passed the stage in this blog where I think about things too much for my own good. Ironically, right now I'm thinking too much about why I'm not thinking too much anymore, so maybe not much has changed after all. Just like in the movie script, Kaufman didn't want things to change either, he just wanted to show how beautiful orchid flowers are. But I musn't spoil anything, watch the movie to know what I mean.

The most important theme, for me, in the movie was a thought that stood central in the magnificent movie Crash. It's the thought that you have to meet someone that thinks like you to make you feel better. Not only do you have to meet that one very special person, you also need to meet him or her under extreme circumstances. You really have to crash into each other to really feel like you want to feel. Again, this sounds very vague but the theme is very well portrayed in the movie Crash and it's done in a number of ways since that movie follows about seven different people and the way there lives collide. And when the collision takes place, very emotional things happen and people's visions on life change drastically.

The theme that one small moment in time can define the rest of your life in one way or the other is one that I feel very strongly about and I will probably try to implement it in the story about Yougri. Which I still haven't started on unfortunately, I should sit down and try to come up with an interesting plot and interesting characters instead of just hoping that inspiration will dawn on me on a random moment and that I'll just be able to write whole chapters from the start. I certainly don't want to rush the Yougri story, but I have been feeling kind of guilty for not starting with it already. I've been looking up some fantasy paintings over the last few weeks and some work really inspires me to try and create characters or environments that are as inspiring as the paintings themselves. Obviously, it's hard to come up with such great personalities yourself so perhaps I'll take some of the paintings as initial concepts for my own characters and environments and then evolve and adapt from there.

The great thing about posts like this is that I'm just making stuff up as I go. I don't have any idea of what I'm going to write about when I click that 'New Post' button, as I mentioned in my first sentence, and still I manage to write about all sorts of things with growing enthusiasm. Once I'm writing, these random thoughts just pop into my mind and I put them down. There is not really a central theme to start from. The beginning is the hardest part. So I just stare at my ceiling and think 'What was the last thing I did?'. In this case, it was watching a movie and so a train of thoughts is born. Thoughts that I didn't have, or at least not consciously, until they just appeared in my mind while writing this post. In that aspect, it's much easier to write a post like this than it is to write a text where you are stuck to certain structures and limits concerning content, like papers for school or previews for Playstage. Here you're free to do what you want and there is no one to judge to work. It's your own and you're the only one that can determine if it's a good text or not.

For those about to rock...
[Fire!]
We salute you!

There you go, one random quote to prove my point. Did that quote feel out of place? No, because I didn't know what to write anymore and so I thought 'Why not pay hommage to the greatest hard rock band of all time?'. So there you have it, cheers to Bon Scott, Angus Young and the other AC/DC members, either alive or dead.

Relax
Don't do it
When you wanna go do it
Relax
Don't do it
When you wanna come

I like this song ever since I saw Les Truttes on the Gentse Feesten. They're probably one of the greatest cover bands in Belgium, playing both disco music and rock classics. After their show I wanted to buy a t-shirt from the band but unfortunately my money was running out and I still had to manage to pay for another night of beer drinking, so that shirt is still on my wishlist.

By now, I feel that this post is heading the wrong way again so I will end here. Well, not precisely there of course, this post is only finished when this parapraph ends. Which should be anytime soon. Maybe now?... Orrr now? Oh boy. Let's just quit the crap. See you next time.