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| A gritty-but-sincere cinderella story with a soundtrack that rivals (and IMO surpasses) Dazed and Confused and Almost Famous. THAT, ladies and ladymen, is why you should go see Invincible. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445990/) Yes, it's a cliched story you've seen a hundred times before...
Yes, it's a movie about America's second most brutal, testosterone-fueled past-time....
Yes, it's made by Disney... (which means it's clean, as Paul pointed out)
and Yes, it's set in Philadelphia in '75, so it's basically a football Rocky... But the soundtrack (which includes gems by Carole King and the James Gang) is anything but a typical sports movie soundtrack, and it adds emotional significance to the action scenes... even the jogging scenes are poignant. Here's our new dog Merlin, The Replacement Puppy:  
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| Isn't nostalgia GREAT? I'm aware of how stupid that sounds...
but I just realized that if I didn't have thousands of nostalgic connections between things, I would have no long-term memories... or at least none that I could feel. I haven't looked up the definition of nostalgia, but I think it is not plainly pleasant memories, but the feelings triggered when memories are recalled.
Anyway, the only way I can remember what it was like to be in business college is to listen to the music of '99, or smell baby powder.
And the only times I am able to break down exactly how I feel about Vancouver is when I'm driving around listening to Bob Dylan or passing beneath giant trees.
Enough of this... point is, I think nostalgia is a gift. It's the closest some of us will ever get to reliving our wild youth... or Christmases Past. | | |
| from "Men Must Work and Women As Well"
by D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
The film, the radio, the gramophone were all invented because physical effort and physical contact have become repulsive to man and woman alike. The aim is to abstract as far as possible. And science is our only help. And science still can't wash the dinner-things or darn socks, or even mend the fire. Electric heaters or central heating, of course! But that's not all.
What, then, is the result? In the abstract we sail ahead to bigger business and better jobs and babies bred in bottles and food in tabloid form. But meanwhile science hasn't rescued us from beef-steaks and dish-washing, heavy labour and howling babies. There is a great hitch. And owing to the great hitch, a great menace to progress. Because every day mankind hates the business of beef-steaks and dish-washing, heavy labour and howling babies more bitterly. | | |
| These are two of my Ontario cousins, Emily and Caleb.
I know you don't know them, but I need these pictures just to 'cute up' my site.
They are really really ridiculously cute!
 
 
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| and now.... The Ultimate Mind-Splitting Dilemma:
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