10/19/2003 07:14:54 PM|||Travis|||

I'm back.

Not to say that I went anywhere, at least physically. The last three days have been somewhat of a mental vacation, started after I handed in my Computer Archetecture assignment, which was largely botched. Well... thats not entirely true. There was then a Student Entrepreunership Meeting which I attended, where I was elected the chair of the marketing committee. It used to be that there was simply five VP's of Marketing. This year, all these people were thrown into a committe, and the one with the most votes got to head it up.

And guess who that is :)

After looking at my last paycheck, I have seriously been toying with the notion of going to Europe over Winter Break. I can probably do it for under a grand, and could have a blast seeing both Paris and Spain. I could stay with Yon for a couple days, then up to Paris at Jennifer's place for a weekend, and then I would be back.

I saw Adaptation recently, and loved it. The ending is somewhat dissapointing, but the flick as a whole is quite clever. It takes the "lets make a movie about making a movie" to new hieghts, following Charlie Kaufman's inner monologue with his fat, balding self trying to write a screenplay for a book about flowers. Can you say writer's block? Its at the forefront of the film.

But also there is a touch of mystery, a reference to the Ouroboros, my favorite Gnostic symbol (the snake that eat's its own tail). Charlie was using it to refer to the fact that he was writing himself into his own screenplay... although I would like to watch the movie again to get the specifics of that scene. Kazza, my favorite illegal file sharing client, is getting it right now to add to my library of greatest movie hits.

All in all, it was a great "mind fuck". I came across that term early and am now fond of it. Mainly it describes something that you come across that knocks your reality onto a hinge, where it hangs very precariously. Its something that changes you.

I sometimes fee like Charile in the movie. I can see myself lacking courage. I can watch opportunities pass me by, with my internal monologue yelling at me to do it, but my body lacking the will to follow through.

And my writer's block problem that I have had lately is also followed in the movie. Perhaps this relation that I can bear with the main character is why I liked the film so much.

Adaptation- an interesting mind fuck.

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