Waking Live
I figured it was about time to dedicate a post to my favorite movie ever. I think it's interesting that most of my friends refuse to watch it with me. Oh well, their loss. I watched it today with Matt. Since I finally found a website that quotes the movie I'm going to post it. Enjoy and comment on the ideas if you wish. You'll probably see more from this movie posted later on.
Wiley is waiting for a cab, when a strange boat-shaped car pulls up. It contains one other passenger.
Bill: Ahoy there matey, you in for the long haul? Do you need a little hitch in your get-a-long, a little lift on down the line?
Wiley: Actually, yeah I was waiting for a cab or something, but ah, if you wanna...
Bill: Alright, don't miss the boat.
Wiley: Hey thanks.
Bill: Not a problem. Anchor's away!
Bill: So what do you think about my little vessel? She's what we call "see-worthy," s-e-e, see with your eyes. I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality, voila. And this (pointing to the windshield)...this is like my little window to the world, and every minute is a different show. Now I may not understand it, I may not even necessarily agree with it, but I tell you what, I accept it and just sorta glide along. You want to keep things on an even keel, I guess is what I'm saying. You want to go with the flow, the sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving. It saves on introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require an explanation, just occupants. That's where you guys come in.
It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8-pack, or you may get the 16-pack...but it's all in what you do with the crayons, the colors, that you're given. Don't worry about drawing within the lines, or coloring outside the lines; I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color right off the page. Don't box me in! We're in motion to the ocean. We are not land-locked, I'll tell you that! So, where do you want out?
Wiley: Uh who me? Am I first? Uh, really anywhere is fine.
Bill: Well just give me an address or something.
Other passenger: I'll tell you what, go up three more streets, take a right, go two more blocks, drop this guy off on the next corner.
Wiley: Where's that?
Bill: Well I dunno either, but it's somewhere...and it's going to determine the course of the rest of your life. All ashore that's going ashore! Toot toot.
Wiley gets out of the car and walks a short way. He comes across a sign that says, "Look to your right." At that instant, a car hits him, and he wakes up into another dream.
Wiley arrives at a blonde girl's house
Girl: Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration, and this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy, when it was just simple survival, like you know...water, we came up with a sound for that, or saber-toothed tiger right behind you!, we came up with a sound for that. But, when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is frustration? or what is anger? or love? When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, I understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert; They're just symbols; They're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed; It's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.
I shall post more later now that I've found this website. If your really interested got to:
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte484v/wakinglife.html
Good night my dears. Sleep well.