Normal?
I just finished watching the movie with the double-meaning title "Normal". If you haven't seen it, it's about a guy who lives in Normal, Illinois (a podunk redneck little town) who wants to get a sex change operation. His wife (Jessica Lange, MILF extraordinare) although suffering several bouts of doubt and anger, in the end accepts his decision with the final line of the movie: "The things we do for love."
Orb mentioned the word 'solipsism' a while ago, and it has been echoing in my head ever since. This movie is a shining example of solipsism. Tom Wilkinson's character faces head-on alienating himself from his peers and his immediate family for something that he and he alone knows to be right. Solipsism. What a powerful word.
Orb mentioned the word 'solipsism' a while ago, and it has been echoing in my head ever since. This movie is a shining example of solipsism. Tom Wilkinson's character faces head-on alienating himself from his peers and his immediate family for something that he and he alone knows to be right. Solipsism. What a powerful word.
posted by Grover at 2/01/2005 11:52:00 PM
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Can you believe that I just found out a couple of months ago what "MILF" stands for. Man I was a bit out of the loop on that one!
Can you believe that I knew what the word solipsism meant before I knew what MILF stood for? What a sad git I am. ;)
I'm forever alienating everyone because I pretty much never back away from my opinion. Perhaps it's a disease. Mind you, I respect people so much more if they really stick to their guns, and maintain their points of view. People who blow in the wind get real tiresome.
I am a steadfast worshipper of the almighty milf. Many women stay sexy well into their 50's. Hell, there's three here at work. Other milves of note: Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton (esp. after her nude scene in "Something's Gotta Give"), Susan Sarandon, Lena Olin... the list goes on and on. :-)
I think (for me) it all started with the lady who played Auntie Vera in "The Secret of My Success", which HBO played the shit out of just as I was beginning to switch on as a kid in the 80's.
Physical attractiveness flits in and out of peoples' lives. Certainly it doesn't have an absolute upper age limit.
I try not to pay attention, *try* being the operative word.
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