about 80% of my day i have ear buds in my ear or music playing in my office.
remember those dancing flowers back in the 80's that danced when music played? i am kind of like that. if i don't hear music, i can't get motivated to move.
i listen to everything from movie scores to heavy metal. all music has a purpose and a place for every situation. yes, even rap. though i am not as big of fan of rap, i do appreciate it.
i sometimes think of my life as a movie and music as the background noise. most of the time the music i am listening to resembles my mood.
no, country does not automatically mean i am sad or depressed. country is more of a fun time for me. i karaoke mainly country songs. they're fun.
though, when i am just merely walking next to someone and listening to music, i start to wonder that if my life is a movie, how boring has this movie have to be?
i am sure robert ebert would be giveing it a two big thumbs down. not many exciting things happen in a normal persons life that makes it movie worthy.
most movies are not even movie worthy. however, all movies have music.
have you ever watched a movie before the music has been added? i am not talking about the music that they are singing with or dancing with, i am talking about the score. the action music. all movies suck without music.
imagine rocky running through the streets in the first movie.
now imagine the scene with out bill conti's "gonna fly now." that scene would suck and you would probably laugh at it or change the channel. none the less, you'd be bored to tears.
without any music in movies, it's just a bunch of people walking around and doing things and their is no dramatic build up to climax of the scene.
that is why i listen to music a lot. it makes me feel as if that big finale is about to happen to my movie/life and without music playing, it will just suck.
however, life is not a movie. movies have to be edited to be considered "watchable."
can you imagine how boring lord of the rings would have been if you had just followed frodo and sam around the whole time?
what about the dark knight? all you did was follow bruce wayne. while he was reading reports, typing on the computer, doing detective things. nothing exciting.
i would be stabbing my eyes out with a plastic spork. i assume people would be doing the same thing with my life, if it were on screen. i guess that is why post-editing exist. to take out all the nothing parts. i wonder if God feels like that sometimes?
i can see him up there looking over the edge of a cloud screaming "do something!" then he realizes nothing good is going to happen right then so he figures it is a good time to get up to go to the concession stand to get popcorn.
popcorn is only good at the theater.
i know if i could edit my life, i would edit out a lot. a lot of hurt and pain, but i would keep some. that pain helped me become who i am and that pain also brought me to this point of my life. there is a lot of great moments that i would be sure to place in there as well.
all those stories that my friends and i repeat over and over every summer as we float the river. those stories would definitely be in my movie.
i just wonder, when is the end of my movie coming?
movies end with some sort of closure. either be a tragedy or happy ending. my friend trey says that i am a closure guy. he is right. my favorite part of lord of the rings is the last 30 minutes of return of the king.
everyone was happy. you see people become who they are supposed to be. some go back to their normal lives. others go on to new adventures.
i have to have closure in the movie or i hate it. if the hangover would have ended right when they found doug on the roof of the hotel, i would have been pissed. i would have never seen them get ready for the wedding on the highway, stu break it off with his girl or that there is a total different side to phil then the party side that i saw throughout the whole movie.
i wonder if my movie will have closure? will i become who i am suppose to be?
what song will be playing when it does?
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