some random mumblings

I think that I feel like me again. Yes, here I go talking as though I've been someone else for the past few days and maybe I was and I didn't know it. I suppose that that is possible.

I've tried to put thoughts of death and dying out of my mind. Although I do wonder what I will do when my parents finally get old. Will I be there as much as they have been for their parents? Will most of the responsibility fall on me since I'm the oldest?

I know how my sister Hope will react when that time finally comes. She'll panic or overreact. Her working the in the medical field has done nothing except make her mild hypochondria worse and takes the medical aspect to extremes.

Putting aside the medical issue, her being the youngest she seems to have the strongest connection with them and I'm not just saying that because she still lives with them. She truly revels in the fact that that she is the baby of the family and craves attention from them and without it she might be lost. She also needs someone to guide her. If and when she gets married, I am curious to see how her husband will react to her.

Ah, cruel thoughts from an older brother.

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There are still things in the world that can make me laugh. An interview with Jon Stewart in the most recent issue of The New Yorker is one of them. Sadly I don't have cable television so I never see his show, but from what I read it must be a scream. He seems so down to earth and human. He is also the same height as me, but I think Rollins might be as well.

Maybe I should transform myself into Jon Stewart and abandon my goal of being Henry Rollins. Obviously there would be fewer tattoos involved.

Back to The New Yorker there was another great article about Dashiell Hammett that appealed to me as well. Since I love the film The Maltese Falcon, one would think that I would've read the book written by him, but I never have. Sam Spade only exists on the screen for me.

I've seen parts of the Thin Man films, but I've never read any of those either. Now after reading the article maybe I should read them if I get the chance.

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On the visual front I rented some movies after I saw the play on Sunday and was less than thrilled with both of them. I had thought that Moulin Rouge would be at least tolerable, but I had to keep turning the sound down and or walking away to take a break. I truly like Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juilet, but all of the singing in Moulin Rouge drove me insane.

Then I rented Quills on the sole fact that Kate Winslet was in it. Once again I just wasn't in the right mood to watch it.

 
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