A Week of You

One moment is stuck ‘tween my mind and my heart.

Through the plains of the days that would keep us apart,

It wandered with motions unbounded by sight, 

For no truth had it found after leaving your light.

Hot frost on your lips in a break from the freeze.

That memory stands still unflung by the breeze

Of a thousand old winters and ancientry’s rime.

That kiss I’ll recall through the vastness of time.

 It could be the hour that’s loosing these thoughts

Or the leftover lees of a legion of shots.

But I’ve drunk not a drop, and still shall I warn

That what’s said after midnight maintains in the morn.

So listen with all that you’re willing to give,

For these lines I recite are the lyrics I live.

This chance of enchantment impels me to pray

For an omen from you that could tell me to stay.

Gorilla Love

Have you ever seen two big gorillas walk past each other on an airplane aisle? With those big broad shoulders? They brush against each other, and in that moment, their fur meshes together so perfectly. You just want to put your hand in the middle and wallow in the velvety softness.

But then maybe one gorilla skipped leg day and thus narrows as his body continues, and the other gorilla’s hind section has nothing to rub up against. Expectations are disrupted.

Sometimes that’s how relationships end.

Bonus Quetion!

Best gorilla?

Optimus Primal.

Dialectal Love

You know how your ancestors can fling off to space and maybe go through some weird time stuff to make a kind of cosmic colony that evolves over thousands of years into its own civilization that mostly forgets its connection to Earth even as it continues to speak English? And now it’s just sitting there alongside modern Earth because of that aforementioned weird time stuff?

Anyway, they still speak English, but it’s hard for language to stay static. When you fall to Earth, it’s easy enough for you to communicate with the locals because you and they are speaking the same language in a broad sense,, but due to your separation through time and space, your version has essentially become its own dialect. Thus, it takes that extra bit of effort for you to grasp the nuances of Earth conversation and convey to them the full meaning of your intent.

And then suddenly you meet someone who somehow speaks the exact same ancient space dialect that you do.

That’s what romance is to me.

Bonus Question!

First dialect you remember encountering?

Probably New Orleans creole.

Back to the Past with Gerard Butler

My brother was telling me that he’d recently watched a great romantic comedy with Gerard Butler, which intrigued me because he generally delves into that genre far less than I do. He told me the name of it, and I asked if that was the one where the poster has a woman with a chocolate box and Gerard Butler with a chocolate box over his crotch. He said that wasn’t it, and then I got to wondering what the name of that movie was. I looked it up and discovered it was “The Ugly Truth”, but then I looked further down the man’s filmography and found some captivating stuff. Like this movie called “Timeline” that was meant to be a vehicle for Paul Walker in the immediate wake of the first Fast and the Furious movie. It’s about an archaeological team that goes back to medieval France on a quest to rescue their professor. How could I turn that down? Even my brother couldn’t. Worthwhile watch.

Bonus Question!

Best medieval time travel film with French stuff?

“Just Visiting” with Jean Reno, which was apparently a remake of a French film Jean Reno did a few years earlier.

Yesterday Came Out Several Yesterdays Ago, But I Finally Saw It

Everyone knows I'm a big fan of Richard Curtis. Or they don't. But I am. "Love Actually" has a particular place in my heart after its introduction to me during a hospital stay at the end of one summer break led to endless viewings.

At the end of this summer, there was nothing in theatres I really wanted to see, which pushed me to finally give "Yesterday" a shot after I'd let it pass by for months. And then I realised it was written by Richard Curtis.

So. I thank you, September movie drought, for pushing me back into the warm embrace of Richard Curtis.

Bonus Question!

Favourite Beatle?

Paul. Dude just likes to be on. I feel that.

Actually Though

Over the summer, I started watching that new “Four Weddings and a Funeral” series just for the sake of it, but I eventually came to realise that, despite its name, it’s essentially an amalgam of the greatest hits from the guy who did the original film. And that includes “Love Actually”, which introduced me to that director, Richard Curtis, around this time of year a decade ago. I was in hospital at the end of summer vacation, and watching that movie endlessly on the hospital’s DVD player in my room on bed rest did a lot to brighten my spirits. I didn’t know that it was a Christmas movie before I saw it, and now it’s basically in my mind as a summer movie. So yeah. Cheers for releasing this new mishmash of a show at the right time for me. I feel the love, which is, actually, all around us.

Bonus Question!

Favourite “Love Actually” subplot?

Probably the Bill Nighy one. Maybe Hugh Grant though?