I'm weird
I always liked what a teacher of mine said once about how music is often for what we are unable to verbalize. In the last week and a half I've been listening to the soundtrack for "How to Train Your Dragon" (which has great music) and with a few tracks in particular, I'm struck by the sense of how the music sort of sounds like what idea of my imagination sounds like? I know, it sounds utterly ridiculous. I'm a bit embarrassed even writing it, but there it is. Or perhaps it's merely that I'm missing (acutely) that sense of adventure I had even on the worst, most boring days back in The Old Country. Although, I am the kind of person that listens to music and pretends I'm in that part of a movie where Everything is Going Right/exciting/flying with the boy and dragon (that is not a euphemism. Get your mind of the gutter!), so maybe Japan is relative. That is, even if I'd never gone to Japan in the first place, I'd likely still be listening to that soundtrack with the same reaction and the same sort of "Where is my adventure" feeling. It's just more acute, now >D But I didn't actually mean to write this to be a drag, just trying to work it out in my head. As I've kind of written about before, I suppose I'm still trying to work out my "new" adventure, as it were, as silly as that sounds.
But speaking of the aforementioned movie, can I just reiterate how unbelievably awesome I thought it was? I saw that damned movie three times in the space of ten days. THREE TIMES. Okay, that's less "impressive" when I consider that there are a couple movies I saw three times in Japan ("Howl" and "Touch", if memory serves), where the cheapest adult ticket is roughly $10, and the regular ticket is $18. Never mind that a local theater here shows matinees for $5.25, which is where I saw it the second two times but STILL. I dunno, I guess it just struck the right chord of adventure/friendship that I really feel the need for right now. It helps that that dragon is about the cutest damned thing I've ever seen (Am aware the co-director worked on "Lilo & Stitch", so it's no wonder Toothless looks so familiar). But the flying scenes? In particular the "test drive" part? Just evokes this weird kind of fierce happiness in me, watching it. I bet watching it in 3D Imax would have been amazing. This is why I take riding lessons, so that one day when I own my own horse, I can get as close as possible to riding my own dragon. I suppose by that thought process, however, I should probably be taking flying lessons as well. I'll just have to be content to be Atreyu, flying over the grass, I guess. I can deal with that.
But speaking of the aforementioned movie, can I just reiterate how unbelievably awesome I thought it was? I saw that damned movie three times in the space of ten days. THREE TIMES. Okay, that's less "impressive" when I consider that there are a couple movies I saw three times in Japan ("Howl" and "Touch", if memory serves), where the cheapest adult ticket is roughly $10, and the regular ticket is $18. Never mind that a local theater here shows matinees for $5.25, which is where I saw it the second two times but STILL. I dunno, I guess it just struck the right chord of adventure/friendship that I really feel the need for right now. It helps that that dragon is about the cutest damned thing I've ever seen (Am aware the co-director worked on "Lilo & Stitch", so it's no wonder Toothless looks so familiar). But the flying scenes? In particular the "test drive" part? Just evokes this weird kind of fierce happiness in me, watching it. I bet watching it in 3D Imax would have been amazing. This is why I take riding lessons, so that one day when I own my own horse, I can get as close as possible to riding my own dragon. I suppose by that thought process, however, I should probably be taking flying lessons as well. I'll just have to be content to be Atreyu, flying over the grass, I guess. I can deal with that.