I AM The Universe: Random Thoughts

I think the only reason I’m doing this post is to get past the Mousse stage! There are a lot many other quotes – including the famous Save the cheerleader, save the world thing, but let’s just consider this the first installment

Boston Legal

Alan Shore (Played by James Spader): (When asked “Is that fair?“) “I’m sorry, I don’t understand the Question”

Alan Shore: (To an over-enthused lawyer) “And we have a saying here, it goes ‘I hope one day you get very sick and die!’”

Melvin Palmer: “You’re a hoot, that’s what you are!”

House

House (Played by Hugh Laurie): “Everybody lies. The only variable is about what!”

House: “Almost dying changes nothing. Dying changes everything!”

House: (Handing over his walking stick to a female doctor) “Here, hold my metaphor!”

House: (To his team) “I teach you to lie, cheat and steal. And as soon as my back’s turned you wait in line!?”

House: “That’s absurd! I love it!”

Team to House, referring to an ongoing medical case: “We’ve got rectal bleeding!”
House: “What, all of you?”

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Ross (Played by David Schwimmer): “We were on a break!!”

Chandler (Played by Matthew Perry): “All right, look if you absolutely have to tell her the truth, at least wait until the timing’s right. And that’s what deathbeds are for.”

Chandler: “Oh, yeah, I’m a gym member. I try to go four times a week, but I’ve missed the last… twelve hundred times.”

Supernatural

Dean (Played by Jensen Ackles): “Ugh, the thought of him driving my car!”

Dean: “Come on man. I know Sam, ok? Better than anyone. He’s got more of a conscience than I do. I mean the guy feels guilty searching the internet for porn!”

Dean: “I’m not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren’t even hot!”

LOST

Jack (Played by Matthew Fox): “Stand up!”
Sawyer (Played by Josh Holloway): “Why, you wanna see who’s taller?”

Ana-Lucia (Played by Michelle Rodriguez): “You do what I tell you. When I say, ‘move’ you move. When I say ’stop’ you stop. When I say ‘jump’, what do you say?”
Sawyer: “You first.” 

Locke (Played by Terry O’Quinn): Why do you find it so hard to believe?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?

Desmond (Played by Henry Ian Cusick): “See You In Another Life Brotha!”

Locke: “I was wrong.”

I hope you sensed the Romanian accent in the post title

I have to admit – I love vampires. I love vampire movies, I love vampire games, I love vampire themes music and culture. I can’t get enough of them! Maybe it’s because the entire matter is such an intricate mesh of fantasy, exaggerated religious lore, morality, culture, vice, lust, temptation and impossibly contentious opinions. Whatever it is, I love vampires.

I have an archive of about twenty vampire movies, dating back to the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu, to the more recent Underworld: Evolution. Though my primary incentive for watching the latter wasn’t as much vampirism as it was Kate Beckinsale – somethings I love more than vampirism, I mean come on!

There have also been some excellent anime full-length features on the topic, and minus the large, shiny eyes and impossibly difficult hair-dos, I love those equally as their cinematic counterparts. For anyone who’s interested, I’d highly recommend Vampire Hunter D – Bloodlust.

Just this weekend I was running a marathon of those vampire movies, and I got to watch my ultimate favorite – Bram Stokers Dracula! My favorite line from the movie has to be this one by Winona Ryder:

Perhaps, though I try to be good, I am bad.

Though I couldn’t decide whether to feel sympathy for her or to vilify her. I was torn between these emotions until the morning after, when I woke up to the realization that it was just a movie. And a sixteen year old one at that. But still. Another of my favorite quotes from the movie by Oldman:

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks upon this Earth is the one who finds… true love?

As for games, anyone had a brush with Vampires: The Masquerade? Or played as a vampire in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion? Or Dracula: Origin?

Ah! I love vampires! I wonder if it’s healthy!

When I was a kid, I read somewhere:

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Now I find it ironic that the author was discussing people.

I’m a big fan of Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain. Not because of his popular Tom Sawyer character, which was for me a loose end in his career simply because I consider a mans childhood to be his most private element. It lays out the entire path a mans life will take. What he is and where he is going, can all be told from his childhood. And I find it very hard to respect anyone who bares that part of his life to anyone and everyone.

But then I look at the perspective of the man, and the measure that he held for studying human behavior, and it becomes easy for me to do so.  What I find most appreciable about him is the fact that he was an advocate of humanity instead of honesty. Lying, he said, was a declining art, and I believe that today it has indeed become fashionable to be painfully honest – something I find extremely distasteful. People declining to lie about the most trivial things, even though the truth might be piercing, and the lie harmless. They do it in the name of a shivering acronym: REM – religion, ethics and morals. It has become hip not to give a shit about what people think and how our actions will affect their feelings.

Maybe it’s part of a global tide thats sweeping the humanity out of each and every one of us – may we be an adolescent teenager frustrating about how no one cares, or a religious adult who feels he has a responsibility to induce honesty and moral values in everyone else, who incidentally they always see as being inferior simply because they don’t wear a beard or wear their pants longer than their ankles.

Is there a point to this post? I guess not. I wouldn’t want to be the one promoting lies in our society, but I think we need more of them. Not the kind we get on TV – the opposite kind. In the words of Mr. Clemens,  an injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie.

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On a completely unrelated note, a humorous quote from one of Mr.Clemens’ texts: We go to Heaven for the climate, but to Hell for the company.

For the past few days, I’ve had nothing on my mind worth blogging about. In fact, I have had very little of any thought on my mind. I have been completely blank, it’s been hard to even do what I do best – have fun. Aamanna thinks it’s because I’m taking the job hunt too seriously, and let me tell you that that’s not going well. He’s been so persuasive that for some time, I started believing that. I started believing that I was, in fact, worried about me not being able to land a job yet.

But I’ve figured out that’s not it. It’s the fear of becoming stagnant – not growing in any way that I can. I’ve noticed, even in my writings, that I’ve not exactly been at my best for the past years. Maybe that was because of my feelings about my college, and some other things, and how seriously I took them. It’s been taking a sub-conscious toll on me. But I’ve realized that letting that phase take over me is my loss only.

So, goodbye, my past. I’m moving on.