Friday, 27 November 2009

• "Howling at the New Moon"

  ... as Naomi puts it.
  
  
  I went to see a movie in the theater today.  This is not an everyday occurrence.  I went with Lizzy and Lauren and Naomi and Isaac.  I went because they were there.  I'd have gone pretty much anywhere if they'd asked me to - I like them a lot. =oD  I certainly wouldn't have gone to see the second installment of the Twilight series on my own.
  
  I have never read the books.  I have never seen the first movie.  I've never even seen spoofs of the first movie, and I've never seen the trailer for the first movie.  I've seen the trailer for the second movie, so I knew Jacob was going to become a werewolf and Edward was going to try to kill himself.
  
  So why am I blogging this?  I'm not sure.  I'm feeling... odd.  As I put it on Facebook, I feel like I caught the emo bug.  Maybe it's just the lack of sleep (before getting up at 3am to work a Black Friday shift, I slept fitfully for only three hours) or the lack of Vitamin D (I feel like I haven't seen the sun in days), but I actually feel.... depressed.  Like, emotions so painful my whole body aches and I can't think straight.  (Yeah, this would be so much more well-written if it were just a rant and not a soul-baring blog... lol!)
  
  Yeah, so...
  
  My heart aches for Bella (the main character).  It's not that I think she's a real person... I ache for the real life teen girls who are dealing with the same things she is. She is selfish, reckless, and impulsive; she mistakes herself for someone much older and wiser.  She devotes herself blindly to her first love - a guy who doesn't even make her happy.  He just takes her breath away.  She never smiles when she's with him, but she's so emotionally connected to the idea of him she feels as though someone punched a hole through her stomach when she's not with him.
  
  She doesn't have to suffer the way she does.  She brings this on herself... and it's bringing me down.
  
  (Note: I've always thought the Romeo/Juliette story is not at all entertaining or touching.  Both were foolish, selfish, and naive, and any story that emulates them is going to either make me laugh or make me angry.  When I named this post "Howling at the New Moon" I recalled the guffaws I had to stifle during the scene where Edward believes Bella to be deceased and resolves to commit suicide... and I also realized how appropriately it relays the anger and sadness this movie elicited from me.)
  
  This post is disappointingly chaotic and senseless, but I feel less upset than I did when I started, so I'd venture to say it was a successful exercise.
  
  

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• So it's been almost a year since my last post.

  Sorry 'bout that.  I actually still have that "running 'to-blog' list.... We'll see if that ever comes to fruition.
  

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