If you want to watch a mind-boggling movie with a kick-ass soundtrack, you should watch Donnie Darko. If your "list" (Friends-style), includes Jake Gyllenhaal, then you should watch Donnie Darko. I'm not a sci-fi kind of girl, but I can safely say this is my favorite movie despite its genre. I watched it a few times and finally figured it out (I was a nerd and took notes).
I was in the car this afternoon on the way back from MoG and heard "Head Over Heels," which reminds me of the movie. I think the main reason I love the movie so much is that it makes me so nostalgic for the 80's. It's not just like a "I want to go back to the 80's" kind of feeling; rather, it reminds me that, though I was born in '81, lived through the 80's, and can remember most of the decade, I was too young to really experience it. It's sad to know that you were there, but you weren't really THERE like you were for the other decades that you can claim as "the decade I grew up in." Pardon my grammar.
Maybe because I was a kid at the time, it seems like there was a kind of innocence to the decade. I do remember thinking, in the late 80's and early 90's, how far we had advanced, technologically speaking, and had no idea how people lived back in the 50's without 50 channels worth of cable TV. What a state of blissful ignorance we lived in back then as to the technology that would, 20 years later, become such an integral part of our lives that we could never go back (the same technology that brings you this blog, posted for the world to see, that would (and should) otherwise be handwritten by way of pen in a paper journal).
I really do miss those times. Life rocked along perfectly fine before we ever formed the concept of a cell phone or the Internet. We left our houses to live our lives knowing that we'd come home and check our answering machines - people could wait. Life didn't stop to return a text message, and we had fewer but deeper connections with people than we do now courtesy of our 600 closest friends on Facebook.
I mean, obviously I love Facebook, and I love having the whole world at my fingertips. It was I who posted my excitement in a Facebook status yesterday that I can use my work Blackberry to access it on the road. Once it's here, it's fun, and we feel like we can't live without it. There are so many things that I want to get but don't get (like an iPhone), not because we can't afford it now, but because it would be one more thing on the long list of STUFF that would be so difficult to give up if life ever threw us a curve ball. I love the DVR and the iTouch...I just kind of long for the days when we would have never known what we were missing had we never advanced to the point that we have - the days when the answering machine was plenty sufficient and call-waiting was an added luxury. I miss the simpler times.
Where are we going to be 20 years from now? I really don't want to know, and I wish that we could just stop where we are now.
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