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I felt sooo good about myself the other day. It was Friday, and I was sitting around with a group of people and chatting. We got around to "Oh, I'm so glad it's Friday blah blah blah." Some guy said "What does TGIF stand for anyway?" I replied "Thank God I'm Female." You know, like that bumper sticker? Everyone. Cracked. UP!! And the icing on the proverbial cake? Ten seconds later, all the guys in the group were like, "Wait..."
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You'll never guess what movie we're watching for religion class. The one, the only, The Passion of the Christ. Seriously. I hope our teacher doesn't get fired.
There is SO MUCH SYMBOLISM in that movie!!!! Sheesh, I thought I was gonna choke on my nonexistant popcorn!! Example: The Devil (creepy, evil, not good) is tempting Jesus in the Garden, telling him to just give up, all those people's souls aren't worth Him suffering and dying. He/She/It conjures up a serpent and it goes over to Jesus, ready to strike. He stomps on it.
That's symbolic on approximately 50 bajillion levels. First off, the serpent represents evil, the Devil, the giving up on His mission, etc. The fact that he stomps on it and kills it is even MORE symbolic. It's symbolic in that individual scene - Jesus is rejecting what the Devil is saying. It symbolizes the conquest of Good over Evil, God over the Devil, willpower over giving up, and the list goes on. DUDE.
OK, movie critic mode off now.
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True story: In our church bulletin, there was an ad for the "International Week of Prayer and Fasting Benefit Dinner." Reread that and let the reality seep into your consciousness. "International Week of Prayer and Fasting - Benefit DINNER." Welcome to the Age of Affluenza.
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I had a movie-related epiphany the other day. Halfway through a [good] movie, there's a pivot, a hinge, something that flips the story around. Examples:
Halfway through The Sixth Sense (brilliant!), we find out what's-his-face can talk to dead people. Halfway through Pirates of the Caribbean, we find out all about the curse. Halfway through the book Wuthering Heights, Catherine (the female love interest) dies. Halfway through Spiderman 2, Peter throws his Spiderman tighty-whities in the trash.
If you know me personally, I'm probably gonna be REAALLY annoying about this from now on. I'm just *sniff* so proud of myself - I have *sniff* my own theory about movies now!! *sniffy* Anybody got a tissue?
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My own mother had a Boneless-Bananas moment the other day. She said when she was little, she wondered why orange juice was called "orange" juice. I mean, it's more yellow than orange. I agreed with her, but I like living in my own little Cheeseworld where there's no yellow... *cough-orlando'sfavoritecolor-cough*
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You know what I've been noticing? People talk differently. I mean, like, form the words with their mouth in different ways. I like to think I talk normally, please don't spoil my illusion. Tobey Maguire, for example, kinda keeps his lips in his mouth when he's talking. Maybe that's just when he's playing Peter Parker, to show that Peter's really introverted, or maybe he just talks that way. However, this one guy in my English class (bad joke: Why do I have to study English? I'm not going to England!) never seems to be able to keep his lips in his mouth. He's always, like, letting them flap around. So of course when he talks he's REALLY hard to understand. I'm just glad he doesn't spit when he talks. I'd have to bring an umbrella to class.
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We were talking about Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and just wondering: Who came up with that name? Were they suggesting that the Kreme in the doughnuts is stale and therefore Krispy? Yucky!!
