Chapter 351: Yeah Yeah

Okay, so it has only been about 4 hours since I posted yesterday’s blog and there isn’t a whole lot that has happened in that time. There are a couple of random things that are pretty noteworthy that popped up during those hours, though. The first, and most important, is that I found out during that time that the ban has been lifted on gay and lesbian couples adopting in the state of Florida. That is HUGE and I couldn’t be happier to hear this news. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any intentions of adopting a child at any point but it is a great feeling to see a step forward on the road to equality, particularly in light of the recent setbacks we have faced on that road, like the vote to NOT repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Of course, there is also the “It Gets Better” project and all the attention that has been paid to anti-gay bullying and abuse that is taking place across this country, which is a very positive thing, as well, although I definitely don’t think it is worth the cost of the lives of the six, possibly seven, kids who brought the whole thing on. All I am saying here is that it seems like there is some progress being made at the moment, which is a very positive thing. Even our current President, Barack Obama, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, made video statements for “It Gets Better,” which is a lot more than any past administrations have done to show their support for the GLBTQ community. So, that all makes me feel really good about the direction we are heading in… all while still realizing that we’ve got a LONG way to go still. The other two things that happened this evening were the leaks of two of my most anticipated records of the fall, “Speak Now” by Taylor Swift and “Messy Little Raindrops” by the most beautiful girl in the world, Cheryl Cole. Also, today saw the leak of the debut from last year’s “X Factor” winner, Joe McElderry, which I am less excited about than I am curious about. I haven’t actually had a chance to listen to any of these records yet, (I am actually in the midst of listening to Cheryl Cole’s record for the first time right now,) so I won’t be doing reviews of them in tonight’s blog. I will most likely post full-length reviews of all three of these records tomorrow night, though.

Also in the last four hours, I made dinner for my Mom and we sat down and watched a bootleg of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” that I borrowed from one of my co-workers. Neither of us had seen it while it was still in theatres and my Mom really didn’t want to wait until the DVD comes out in December. So, we watched it this evening and, I must say, neither one of us were impressed with it. It really felt like they were trying to turn this one into a genre film – it kind of attempted to straddle the line between horror and action. This would have been fine, I suppose, if the first two films in the series had followed that same sort of formula. Neither of them did, though, so it just seemed kind of awkward. I also felt like some of the sequencing, in comparison to the book, didn’t make a whole lot of sense. It was just odd the way they shuffled some things around. Don’t get me wrong, there were certain things that I absolutely understood, like pulling the Quileutes Council Meeting scene from “New Moon” to place in this film instead, because it just made more sense thematically. However, there were little things that made other things make considerably less sense. For example, in the book “Eclipse,” Bella’s graduation didn’t happen until the very end of the book, but in the movie they had it happen very early on. This wouldn’t matter much, except for the fact that one of the key scenes in this story was completely thrown off by changing the timing of this. For those of you who are familiar with these books and films, there is a pivotal scene in the books in which Edward and Bella are camped out in this strange field area preparing for this big crazy battle that has to take place. Jacob is there, as well, waiting outside of their tent. It is very cold outside and Bella is freezing, so because of the fact that Jacob’s werewolf body holds so much heat they ask Jacob to come in and get into the sleeping bag with Bella in order to warm her up, yada yada yada. That made perfect sense in the book because this scene was supposed to be taking place in the middle of winter. However, since they changed the placement of the graduation, which always happens in May or June, the timing of this scene was moved to the middle of summer. I know that weather is different in that northern portion of the West Coast but I also know that it is not drastic enough of a difference that it would be snowing and at such cold temperatures as the film portrays in the middle of July. So, that minor change was enough to make the most important scenes of the movie not make any sense to me. I don’t know… maybe I am just being overly critical of it. I just was not impressed at all, and found myself spending the entire movie pointing out mistakes or cracking jokes like, “Oh, I must have missed the scene when Bella bought herself a curling iron,” because her hair was suddenly curled for the last portion of the film. Also, a few of the characters suddenly had accents that they didn’t have in the first two films. I don’t know. I just felt like the whole thing was kind of dumb.

So, since I have rambled on about fucking “Twilight” movies now, I am going to go ahead and end this. I don’t have anything important to say this evening. At least, I don’t have anything important to say that I actually want to say right now. There are a few emotional matters that I really could discuss at this point but I just don’t feel like drudging up my emotions right now. It is just strange how things kind of pop up in your mind at different points in time – like the Universe is sending you signals that something needs to happen. I guess the reason these things happen is because the Universe actually IS sending you signals that something needs to happen. In any sense, none of it actually happened today so there is no need to discuss it right now. Oh shit. I just remembered that tonight was supposed to be a themed blog. It’s okay, though, it was a really dumb theme, anyway. You see, I spent most of today putting together a playlist of music to shuffle at my party and I was going to make tonight’s blog post a big discussion of the ideal party music. See, I told you it was a dumb theme – a REALLY dumb theme, actually. I’m glad that I decided not to go ahead with that because that would be one hot mess of a blog for this evening. It’s not to say that this is any better, but it’s something. So, I am going to go ahead and end this here. Goodnight.