Things happen in three’s - a strange but predictible pattern of interpretation for me.
First, a beautiful friend from University in Auckland, who always made me smile with her innoble attitude to just being who she wanted to be. Her life took some changes and she ended up in the US living and we lost contact for many years. Last week I sent out a random email, only to hear today that she is in NYC for the weekend. I am stoked - we are trying to meet up on Sunday.
Second, one of the most influential films that helped me name much of the bureaucratic bullshit that went on around me, of not taking the ’system’ of life as set in stone, of naming the helplessness one often feels - not for the sake of dwelling on hopelessness - but in exposing it so as to reform and regain place and meaning in the world around. Brazil - the directors cut - is showing for two days in New York at the Film Forum. I tend to prefer it over George Orwells stark 1984. Brazil is more grounded, it reminds you that bureaucratic systems of control are alluring, almost attractive in their repetitive patterns. Control is deceptive, not stark and fatalistic as 1984 shows it. I will be indulging myself in a serious moment of nosteglia Sunday evening. I wonder what I will learn from it this time. Pictures and quote from IMDB.
Guard: Don’t fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.
Third, has not emerged, hahaha but I know it is about to. Strong sense of it. I love the way life is like this, truly its awesome.
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