Thanksgiving Countdown
my little cousin would say this poem at Thanksgiving:
Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
if you haven't got a penny, a hay penny will do
if you haven't got a hay penny, then God bless you!
this is the same cousin that superglued his eye shut by accident a few months ago. that's a whole 'nother story though.
At any rate, this thanksgiving will be comined with the Marrige of my cousin to my old youth pastor. it's kinda cool, but it's kinda not. supposedly, the rehearsal dinner is thanksgiving night, i'm not sure how that's gonna work out. i'm kind of upset that we won't be able to devote a whole day to eating. we'll not have to devote it to eating and rehearsing. booo!
in other news, keith and i went and saw mystic river last night. that is, Mystic River starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and what's his face? Andy from Shawshank redemption. I thought it was a super good movie, but afterwards, it had me thinking about death a lot. it's not that i'm scared of death, but i don't really know how i'll deal with it. i'm really kinda scared that somebody i know will die and i won't be really expecting or ready for it...which is ridiculous, because you never really are ready for it. but as i was laying down to go to bed, i kept thinking about death like this...
There are a few things in life that you wish you didn't have to do, but after you're finished doing them, everythings okay. for example: telling your parents the truth about something after you've been not telling the truth. or handing in a paper late and knowing you're gonna get a low grade on it. or being really nervous on stage...or throwing up when your sick. stuff like that. i think death is kinda that way. we don't really want to die, but in the end we don't really mind that we did or have to die. we're just scared because we've never done it before. i think that dying in movies is completely romanticized, old people on their death beds, saying their last whispering lines...like, "i've done my part...now...do yours.." or something like that. then they let their muscles go limp and try and keep their eyes open until the person by their bedside shuts them and then breaks down. or it's the complete opposite spectrum, people are absolutely terrified before they die, the director gets a quick close up of the person's face before you hear a gun go off. and the victim is usually innocent or "had it comin'" i don't want to die either of those ways.
i don't know if that made any sense, but that's what the movie made me think about. it's a really good movie other than that...but whatever.
i have to be at the Polk Theatre at 8:00am tomorrow morning. GREAT....my sleep-in day has just been ruined. apparently, we're loading the set in and doing all the Tech stuff. like hanging fly boards, and rearranging lights and stuff. all the stuff that i'll have absolutely NO hand in, because i have no idea what to do, and i probably won't be allowed to either. there goes my saturday.
well, have a great weekend...
Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
if you haven't got a penny, a hay penny will do
if you haven't got a hay penny, then God bless you!
this is the same cousin that superglued his eye shut by accident a few months ago. that's a whole 'nother story though.
At any rate, this thanksgiving will be comined with the Marrige of my cousin to my old youth pastor. it's kinda cool, but it's kinda not. supposedly, the rehearsal dinner is thanksgiving night, i'm not sure how that's gonna work out. i'm kind of upset that we won't be able to devote a whole day to eating. we'll not have to devote it to eating and rehearsing. booo!
in other news, keith and i went and saw mystic river last night. that is, Mystic River starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and what's his face? Andy from Shawshank redemption. I thought it was a super good movie, but afterwards, it had me thinking about death a lot. it's not that i'm scared of death, but i don't really know how i'll deal with it. i'm really kinda scared that somebody i know will die and i won't be really expecting or ready for it...which is ridiculous, because you never really are ready for it. but as i was laying down to go to bed, i kept thinking about death like this...
There are a few things in life that you wish you didn't have to do, but after you're finished doing them, everythings okay. for example: telling your parents the truth about something after you've been not telling the truth. or handing in a paper late and knowing you're gonna get a low grade on it. or being really nervous on stage...or throwing up when your sick. stuff like that. i think death is kinda that way. we don't really want to die, but in the end we don't really mind that we did or have to die. we're just scared because we've never done it before. i think that dying in movies is completely romanticized, old people on their death beds, saying their last whispering lines...like, "i've done my part...now...do yours.." or something like that. then they let their muscles go limp and try and keep their eyes open until the person by their bedside shuts them and then breaks down. or it's the complete opposite spectrum, people are absolutely terrified before they die, the director gets a quick close up of the person's face before you hear a gun go off. and the victim is usually innocent or "had it comin'" i don't want to die either of those ways.
i don't know if that made any sense, but that's what the movie made me think about. it's a really good movie other than that...but whatever.
i have to be at the Polk Theatre at 8:00am tomorrow morning. GREAT....my sleep-in day has just been ruined. apparently, we're loading the set in and doing all the Tech stuff. like hanging fly boards, and rearranging lights and stuff. all the stuff that i'll have absolutely NO hand in, because i have no idea what to do, and i probably won't be allowed to either. there goes my saturday.
well, have a great weekend...