Meme, part 2: Favourite movie

Okay, so doing the meme didn't exactly help me write every day... but at least I get to pick it up whenever I feel like blogging again, without having to sit for hours just wondering what to blog about. For some reason I don't really feel like writing anything too personal these days, possibly because I don't feel there's anything personal going on. Well, apart from the fact that I just got ill, and is home from work for the second day in a row. It's just a bad cold, but I'm too exhausted to even go out to the mail box, so being at work is absolutely out of the question. And the cough keeps getting worse. I should probably see a doctor about that, but I hate going to the doctor, so I'll put it off until I'm absolutely sure I might develop neumonia. Excellent idea.

Okay, so today's topic is favourite movie. Difficult. I'm the kind of person who loves to watch the same movies over and over, to discover new things about them, or just because I enjoy them so much. But finding one favourite is really difficult. So I've chosen two (which was also really difficult).

Ondine is a recent favourite of mine, and I love it not only because it's Irish, because Colin Farrell is in it, because it deals with Celtic folklore in a modern setting (something Susan and I have played around with as a theme for a series of short stories we'd write together), or because Sigur Rós has made the score to the movie and also features in it for a short second. I love it because... because I just do! The stuff I just mentioned is just gravy.

The other favourite is one I've loved since I was about 16 or something. Before Sunset was different from any other movie I'd ever seen, and made Ethan Hawke the ideal guy to whom I would measure every other guy I ever met in my life. Nobody came even close... I watch this movie now and again to remind myself that not every movie needs to be filled with action or stuff happening all the time for a movie to be interesting. Sometimes a good conversation is enough to keep you interested. I'm so sick of movies where you don't get the time to think, to breathe, to just... take part in it. This movie really allows you to do that!

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Listening to: God on the Drums, Devil on the Bass - Katie Melua
Reading: The Road to Santiago - Kathryn Harrison (I bought it when I lived in Dublin, and am reading it for the second time now)
Watching: Finally catching up on CSI: NY