Revolutionary Life

I saw Revolutionary Road over the weekend which left me feeling "empty and hopeless". I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. I enjoyed it, that much is true. I just don’t know if I care anymore to celebrate the ability of movies to make me feel bad. They must think it’s more difficult to do the opposite, I guess, not excluding butt-related jokes, but you can’t really make a whole movie around that, or at least you shouldn’t. At the very least, I guess, it reminded me that we can unstick ourselves from the ruts we get into and it's less about what we're doing than the frame of mind we're doing it in. Yars.

My new fav thing to watch is on Showtime, actually - "United States of Tara" with one of my favorite TV crushes from Sex and the City, John Corbett, and the always fabulous Toni Collette. It’s really clever and interesting and Collette perfectly pulls off the various different personalities she portrays. Oh, guess I should have mentioned, if u haven’t seen it, that it’s about a woman who has Multiple Personality Disorder, although on the show I learned it’s now classified as DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), so see fascist anti-television groups out there, TV is educational. And sometimes, delightfully, funny. I’m going to have to check in with our equally fabulous Blog4Reel judge, Kris Lawrence who moonlights as a TV critic and find out if he approves. I usually get all of my TV recs from him. His column is awesome. Check them out if you get a chance:

http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Christopher_Lawrence.html

Oh and if you want to see the most charming music video (shot in stop-motion), check this out. The song, by Oren Lavie, is also really beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY