Projections

I have been in a real movie-watching phase again.  I saw Cyrus last Thursday, Inception on Saturday, and Youth In Revolt (on DVD).  Cyrus made me super uncomfortable for pretty much the entire movie, and I may never be able to watch Jonah Hill on screen again.  And this may be a blessing.  Youth in Revolt was kinda meh. 

But Inception.  Ohhhhh.  Inception.  Loved it hard.  I sent Duke an email after I left that said "You need to see Inception, it features a hot chick architect who isn't just there to be killed off."  He replied with "Sounds like science fiction to me."  He has a real hang-up about architects in movies - they almost always exist only to say something enginerdy and then get crushed by a falling beam in the first 5 minutes.

I've been having strange dreams since I saw the movie, but I have to constantly remind myself that I have always had strange dreams, and it has nothing to do with the movie, I just have very vivid dreams and I'm only more creeped out by them now, they are not actually increasing in frequency or weirdness.

For readers with me since April or so, you may remember my "Empires Weren't Built Here" series that was supposed to contain a Part 4 that hasn't arrived yet.  The movie Inception may hasten/make possible the Part 4.  I've written it.  I've rewritten it.  It exists in a few different forms.  I'm quite glad that I didn't publish the first version, holding back out of some intense discomfort I have with the subject matter in light of the number of jumpers (suicides by train) that have taken place this spring/summer in the northwest suburbs, the emails that I get telling me that this train or that train will be late due to a "pedestrian incident".  Jim, who saw the movie with me, will probably be the only person who completely understands the physical reactions it provoked in me.  Suffice it to say that I went home that night and took a second, third, and twelfth look at Part 4.  I'm still not sure if I'm ready for it.

All of this is getting around to the point that I want to spend more time here, on DuJane, and I'm working on making that time possible.  I've been busy writing, just elsewhere and with other goals, but I need to refocus here too.  I dream of you, even on days other than Thursdays.