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It grows on you…

Musings,

You know the phrase “it grows on you”? I’ve never really believed it until recently when a couple of things have gown on me.

One is a movie I’ve tried to watch a couple of times: The Science of Sleep.  I’d had high hopes for this film when I saw the previews and knew that Gondry was involved, but the first couple of times I began watching it, I didn’t like it. I thought it was contrived and silly for no reason.

Then last night, I sat down to watch it again. I began from the beginning and watched it all the way through and LOVED IT.

I wonder what was up the first two times.

Another thing that has begun to grow on me is Facebook. I joined because I could. My kids were on it and I wanted to know what the pull was. I found little to interest me – no one but my teens and their friends seemed to be on it. I got lots of friend invites when I joined, but because I didn’t know those people online nor off, didn’t accept the invites.

Recently I was “friended” by a former classmate of mine – someone who got me sent to the hall in 3rd grade. It’s interesting to see what his life has turned out to be – although since his brother married Dean’s cousin, I could have easily found out that way.

In the past few days I’ve begun to explore that (and Myspace) more and I think I could become a convert.

That’s all I need – another Internet addiction.

Coach Manon

People, Rave, Wrestling, , , ,

I’d heard great things about Andrew’s wrestling coach before Andrew was on the team. Then this summer Andrew received a wonderful & personal letter from him welcoming Andrew to the team. Andrew, Dean and I have all received emails from the coach on various matters, all of which have been delightful to read – both in content and form.

Yesterday the coach proved, once again, what a fine role model he is in an interaction with Andrew after an upsetting loss.  I’m not going into details, they are private, but Derek Manon is one heck of a wrestling coach on a number of levels.

The Lives of Others (the film)

Film, Rave,

When I wrote the post entitled The Lives of Others, I was thinking about the film of the same name, but had not yet seen it. But now I have.

Beverly, the president of the film club to which I belong, recommended it to me shortly after it came out. I put it on my Netflix list, but recently moved it up to the top of my queue. I wish I had done so sooner, because it was a wonderful film.

If you have not seen it, it takes place in East Germany a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and focuses on a couple under surveillance and the man watching them.  Although the foreshadowing was obvious and I figured out the end before it happened, it was still a wonderful and suspenseful film about a time in the world’s recent past about which I knew very little.

There was nothing about the film I didn’t like, although I wonder how accurate the subtitles were.  There were a couple of scenes that I thought were more meaningful, but the words didn’t convey that.