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so many things!
1) my boyfriend is wonderful. He is the goofiest kid. I adore him. He returns the favor and, after spending the night with me at my grandmas house (which wasn't nearly the kind of alone time I'd have liked) he took me out to breakfast. I am going to get him the best haricut and then I swear to god, I will post pictures.
2) the night before said elder-sitting arrangment, Justin, my father and I saw the Bourne Ultimatum. In my heart of hearts I wish that thinking and film-studies were as profitable as, say, a good middle-management position at a corporation, at least, because then I could do what I love AND pay the bills. That said, the only place this is worth 1/10th of cent is on livejournal. So here goes:
2a) The comparison between Jason Bourne and James Bond is about as complex as comparing the foreign policies of America during the 'black and white' Cold War era to the current labyrinth of rhetoric that is ballooned and intensified by popular media, upcoming primaries, and ideological party lines.
2b) Jason Bourne is infinitely cooler than James Bond (to me, and dare I say my po-mo generation) because he is not a cold-eyed killer fighting against an oblique national villian like Bond does but just a man trying to figure his shit out. He only kills in self-defense, is an acting maveric of the CIA, a totally competent underdog with a solid moral mission: He just wants to know where he came from, and expose the deviant publicly elected individuals who are profiting from his years as an amnesiac slave to The Man! As a pawn on the international stage, subject to propaganda and lethal action from his superiors, Jason Bourne is an allegory for any wittingly atomized individual in America today. We all fight the hegemony here; Jason Bourne is the guy who actually wins!
2c) Interesting filmic things to notice, if you happen to watch this movie: the CIA op managers occupy a gendered (sometimes parental) dichotomy RE: how to deal with a wayward assassin. The female manager wants to lure him in to talk, because she trusts that he is not a threat, his motives are simply misunderstood. She advocates working with him to find a common solution, to give him what he wants (its just information, after all). The male manager puts a standing kill order on his head and puts all resources towards finding Jason for the purposes of "experiemental interrogation." One doesn't need to have a degree in this stuff to see the correlation between today's more hot-topic political issues.
3) I don't know if I could describe to you the hot button political issues of the day but I can certainly find a movie that puts it together for me.
4) Last night we went to Dixon again and it was more bad food. I still feel ill.
5) Last night I couldn't sleep due to imminent departure of Very Important Friends and Relatives in my life. These VIPFaRs occupy, right now, a great deal of my free time and social energy. I love them all. Fate would have it that they are going back to school, leaving me without, mostly. I mostly cried myself to sleep, missing them pre-emptively. Plans are in the works for a family-friend visit to Ann Arbor, an overnight bus trip to the UP, and trains into Chicago.
6) Otherwise things are pretty stellar. I wish you all the best Monday ever!