I'm including this picture because I found it in a box, and it reminds me of spring, which I am desperately looking forward to this year.
I don't have much to say today after a fairly quiet (but nicely so) weekend. I read a lot (Breakfast at Tiffany's and a Jane Austen biography), walked around a lot (bagel procurement at Ess-a-Bagel, library visit, customary window shopping, then reading in Madison Square park), and saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was even better than I'd hoped.
On the latter, I'm working on an idea that may or may not pan out. After seeing ESotSM, it occurred to me that there have been quite a few movies in the past few years of all different genres dealing specifically with memory (ESotSM, 50 First Dates, Memento, Mulholland Drive, and in a different-but-similar vein, Groundhog Day). Particularly in these first two (yes, I did see 50 First Dates), even though the physical memory is damaged, a sort of "emotional memory" persists. I don't know what all this means yet, but I'm thinking there may be a little article here.
A side note -- is there anything sadder than Jim Carrey and Bill Murray when they play it straight?
Well, it's going to be a busy work day, so I must move on to the more prosaic occupation of chart-making and bullet composing.
Song of the Morning
Blondie - "Sunday Girl" (Hurry up, hurry up and wait!)
Of the movies you mention, I've only seen Mullholland and Memento (can't believe I've never seen Groundhog Day). What I find most intriguing about those movies is the inclination for the protagonists to do as Fred Madison/Bil Pullman does in Lost Highway: "I like to remember things my own way. Not necessarily the way they happened."