Get Out There
It's 5:30 pm. The thermometer on the deck reads 93.
To help deal with the heat (nice, a butterfly) i've been sitting inside, since i left work today, watching movies. First i watched "Godsend" (summary and opinion to follow), followed by the completion of "Platoon" which Ben and i started yesterday. It's nice to sit in the AC and not do anything after working in the heat and sweating despite the fan two feet away. And these are big fans. But i've talked about that already so i'll move on.
"Godsend" is about a family that loses a son (their only son, Adam...go figure) to a car accident. Through a doctor who presents himself after the funeral arrangements have been made, the family has their son cloned. However, upon reaching the age of 8 (the age at which the original child died), weird things start to happen. It was okay. Nothing for a writer to brag about but an interesting concept and the plot was carried out decently.
"Platoon" was a war movie. Specifically about the Vietnam War and how it changed and affected the men involved. It concentrated on one specific platoon that housed characters portrayed by Willem Dafoe, Charlie Schene, Tom Dilinger, Johnny Depp (for about five minutes total). It was good. That's all i have to say about that.
Anyway, so i've been watching the colors dance on the television for a few hours and i needed a break. Most of you are now thinking (at least should be) how comical it is that i would take a break from the TV here in front of my laptop. Not much of a break. But it is. You see, i'm sitting outside in that aforementioned 93 degree environment, june bugs announcing the summer's oppressive warmth (as if we didn't notice) and the occasional sound of a child at play.
I just needed to be outside, heat or not. It's beautiful out here. The trees are resting, i just got in trouble for not watching the grill (it wasn't my job but i could have done something about the burning eggplant anyway), and the air is fresh even if it doesn't feel like it. Well, as fresh as Hartford County can deliver anyway. But the outside is different from the inside and ultimately that's what i needed.
It's alive. It's genuine. It's real.
You can't get that from a TV no matter how high the definition or how crisp and clean the sound. It's still synthetic. It's generated. It takes what you can experience with your own senses and packages it into a processed meal. A fully loaded baked potato becomes a tater tot. It's certainly better than it used to be but it still isn't the real thing. Only two senses are at work; you're missing out. Granted you don't have the bug that keeps buzzing my ear but you don't have the breeze on your skin either.
So, be it summer's furnace or winter's freezer, the outside beats the inside any day. If you haven't tried it, i highly recomend you do. You can touch it, taste it, hear it, feel it, smell it.
Get out there.
To help deal with the heat (nice, a butterfly) i've been sitting inside, since i left work today, watching movies. First i watched "Godsend" (summary and opinion to follow), followed by the completion of "Platoon" which Ben and i started yesterday. It's nice to sit in the AC and not do anything after working in the heat and sweating despite the fan two feet away. And these are big fans. But i've talked about that already so i'll move on.
"Godsend" is about a family that loses a son (their only son, Adam...go figure) to a car accident. Through a doctor who presents himself after the funeral arrangements have been made, the family has their son cloned. However, upon reaching the age of 8 (the age at which the original child died), weird things start to happen. It was okay. Nothing for a writer to brag about but an interesting concept and the plot was carried out decently.
"Platoon" was a war movie. Specifically about the Vietnam War and how it changed and affected the men involved. It concentrated on one specific platoon that housed characters portrayed by Willem Dafoe, Charlie Schene, Tom Dilinger, Johnny Depp (for about five minutes total). It was good. That's all i have to say about that.
Anyway, so i've been watching the colors dance on the television for a few hours and i needed a break. Most of you are now thinking (at least should be) how comical it is that i would take a break from the TV here in front of my laptop. Not much of a break. But it is. You see, i'm sitting outside in that aforementioned 93 degree environment, june bugs announcing the summer's oppressive warmth (as if we didn't notice) and the occasional sound of a child at play.
I just needed to be outside, heat or not. It's beautiful out here. The trees are resting, i just got in trouble for not watching the grill (it wasn't my job but i could have done something about the burning eggplant anyway), and the air is fresh even if it doesn't feel like it. Well, as fresh as Hartford County can deliver anyway. But the outside is different from the inside and ultimately that's what i needed.
It's alive. It's genuine. It's real.
You can't get that from a TV no matter how high the definition or how crisp and clean the sound. It's still synthetic. It's generated. It takes what you can experience with your own senses and packages it into a processed meal. A fully loaded baked potato becomes a tater tot. It's certainly better than it used to be but it still isn't the real thing. Only two senses are at work; you're missing out. Granted you don't have the bug that keeps buzzing my ear but you don't have the breeze on your skin either.
So, be it summer's furnace or winter's freezer, the outside beats the inside any day. If you haven't tried it, i highly recomend you do. You can touch it, taste it, hear it, feel it, smell it.
Get out there.
posted by Still Daddy at 4:30 PM
1 Comments:
I think someone told me about Godsend one time and recommended I watch it. They told me of the plot and that's how I remember it's the same movie you talked about. (man, i gotta improve my writing skills)
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