I figured that this probably warranted a post about it, and I realized that I hadn't made a new post for over a week, which sort of surprised me. Plus I missed last week's Postsecret review. Oh well.
Anyways, the eclipse was going to happen shortly so I had the fortune to travel down to South Carolina to see it. The eclipse itself was strange. It was so weird. Something else. I would say that it was worth it to make the trip to see a complete eclipse, and not just 80% of an eclipse that I would've seen had I not traveled.
Traveling more into the south also reaffirmed my mindset that I'm happy to live where I do and I don't want to move to the south. Lots of rednecks compared to here, I would say. The roads are kind of bad but you can go really fast, so I guess it's a bit of a trade off. Thankfully, no car accidents or kidnappings occurred on the trip and it went pretty smoothly.
The trip was also really good for my Peter Sarsgaard dvd collection. I got: Garden State, Rendition, Flightplan, and Kinsey. Unfortunately I don't think I saw any copies of An Education or Boys Don't Cry, which are the movies I want to watch the most. I also got the Jason Bourne trilogy, and Dot the i which has James D'Arcy in it and which I had been wanting to watch. I didn't think to check and see if they had Requiem for a Dream. In addition to the dvds, I got a book that I wanted to have a copy of, and all this for only $10. Thrift stores are great, aren't they? I probably should go back to some of the local ones sooner or later and see if there are any more Peter Sarsgaard movies to be had, or other stuff that's a good deal and that I would like to have.
Although Big Macs are cheaper in the south, I don't think that it's quite worth moving down there for the ability to drive really fast on the highways and get Big Macs for under $6. Those kinds of things come along with hordes of rednecks and conservatives, compared to the amount of those kinds of people who live in the area where I currently live. Being down there made me wonder if perhaps I'm too cosmopolitan, although even if by whoever's standards, I am, I don't really care. If you're "too cosmopolitan" but live amongst people who are just as cosmopolitan as you are, it doesn't really matter.
For some reason I keep thinking about the upcoming movie where Jake Gyllenhaal plays a character whose legs get blown off by a bomb. It would be quite unfortunate for one's legs to get blown off or otherwise separated from the rest of your body. I'm betting that the movie is going to be sappy and inspirational (although I think what would be really interesting is a movie about the same subject matter, but that's not sappy and inspirational, and is instead depressing, like Requiem for a Dream, and maybe ends with the main character killing himself because he can't cope with having had his legs get blown off, maybe by a terrorist attack or maybe in a war as a soldier...), which isn't really my thing, plus the whole idea of legs getting blown off is... unsettling. I think it would be awful to have your legs get blown off, although I guess if it happens you'd just have to deal with it and get used to living without real legs, although maybe you'd get prosthetic legs. And if you really couldn't cope with it, I guess you could commit suicide like in my theoretical movie idea. So at the moment I'm thinking that I probably won't see it in theaters, but perhaps later I'll watch it on Netflix or online, or rent a dvd of it. I wonder what it was like for Jake Gyllenhaal to play that character and how he felt about the role.
One of the dvds I got has Peter Sarsgaard and Jake Gyllenhaal in it, so I might watch that one first. It might be interesting if they ever star in another movie together; right now they've only been in two together and both of them aren't particularly recent. I wish Peter Sarsgaard would lend his voice to a GPS company or something like that, so that you could set your digital device voices to his. That would be quite something! I just like to hear him say things.
Hopefully I get to this week's Postsecret review sometime before the week is over and I won't be able to do it. We'll see. Somehow I caught an illness so now I'm sick and coughing and spitting up stuff, which is better than just repeatedly swallowing it and having it continue to line the innards of your throat. And I'm listening to New Dawn Fades and wondering if it's too depressing to have as my song on Tinder. Not that it really matters too much. I think it's a better song choice than some of the crappy songs I've seen on other people's profiles.
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