Posts

Showing posts from November 11, 2009

Up in the Air

Image
I am in love with this movie and I haven’t even seen it yet. The expected release date for “Up in the Air” is Christmas Day, December 25th; however I have been hearing that reviews are so good, like potential Oscar nominations good, that they might move the release date up. Not sure, will keep you posted. The first time I saw the trailer I felt a sense of Déjà vu, then it hit me, I totally had this exact conversation with my boss back when I first started working. I was so much like Anna Kendrick’s character Natalie. Fresh out of University with the business suites (such a grownup / take me seriously look, non?) and all of the naivety in the world but not recognizing even an ounce of it. I was focused and driven, but I didn’t have any idea what I wanted to be doing in my career, I just knew that I wanted to be good at it. Then you work for a few years…..you gain that experience and things change. Life happens, other things become far more important and you realize that everything you t

Come Pick Me Up

Image
Have you ever listened to a song and you can just feel it run through your soul. It doesn’t really matter what the lyrics say or mean, but you totally and completely connect with the music, right to the core. This would be one of those songs that does it for me. It’s called Come Pick Me Up by Ryan Adams. I heard this song last night for the first time in a long time. Come Pick Me Up emanates feeling and emotion and it has actual meaning unlike most of the “popular” songs out today. It’s one of those thinking songs, when listening to it you can sort the shit out in your life, figure out what you want, get back on track. It’s amazing that a song can do that, isn’t it? I do my best thinking in the car by myself listening to music. Usually, wait, who am I kidding, Every time I find a song that I connect with I’ll listen to it over and over again while images of events in my life or things I would like to happen in my life run through my mind…almost like a movie trailer..and this song goes