This was a tough one, with lots of wrong guesses, but it was an awful lot of fun, and guess what? Pretty easy to write. So it’s definitely going to make a reappearance.
Hint for the last actor
He’s a tough one, so I added co-stars.
Shattering glass
The other day I dropped the coffee pot. It didn’t break.
But as it hit the floor (with an anti-climactic thud) I heard the glass shatter and felt the shards flying.
With all the work I do with meditation and imagery, it is fascinating to me that, when startled, the mind can do it all by itself without help. That what I’m working to create with various mind exercises is something I actually do naturally when I’m not trying.
Tuesday Trivia: Actors
Name the actors based on their roles:
1. He’s played a drag queen, a terrorist, and a blind man.
Solved by Cosette (comment #26).
2. A teacher of the deaf, a mob wife, and a Marxist journalist.
Solved by fiona (comment #20).
3. He’s been an author, a KGB traitor, Satan, and an evil doctor.
HINT: (Fixed) Movie #1 is with Amy Irving, Movie #2 has John Rhys-Davies, movie #3 is with Debra Messing, and movie #4 is with Harrison Ford.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #32).
4. She’s played a Mother Superior, a suicidal countess, and an Evil Queen.
Solved by Steve H. (comment #11).
5. He’s had two famous roles as generals, been a con man, and robbed a bank in a most unusual way.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #4).
6. An assassain, a fashion model, a sociopath, and a car thief.
Solved by Brandi (comment #14).
7. A computer designer, a sports manager, and Thomas Edison.
Solved by Melville (comment #23), but TehipiteTom knew it three minutes too late (comment #24).
I won I won I won I won
I won the Serenity DVD. I am so happy. Winning ROOLZ.
Fine. Hard. Soft. Fine.
When you look within, you tend to move through layers. At first look, everything is fine. At second look, everything is hard. At third look, everything is soft.
Suppose you tell a barbed joke. First look, “Hey, it was funny. It didn’t mean anything.” Fine. Second look, “I’m angry and I was lashing out.” Hard. Third look, “I’m terrified and protecting myself with barbs.” Soft.
Last night I stayed fairly late at a party, despite being pretty exhausted. There were a number of different social groups at the party, but I was the last one there among my own social group.
So this morning I asked myself, why did I stay so late? The first answer was that it was a relief to be out of the house. I’ve been too much at home lately, too bored out of my mind supervising Arthur’s home studies. And hey, it was a long drive to get there. Fine.
The second answer was that it was my own ego. I am a competitive, and some part of my mind was treating it as a contest for affection, for being the best friend by staying the longest. Hard.
And finally I reached the part where I saw that I am afraid that I don’t know how to be a good enough friend, that other people are better at friendship than I am. That I am, as a friend, inadequate, and I was staying to compensate. Soft.
This is the nature of inner work. We resist at first because we know the hard part is coming. We don’t want to admit we have an ugly part of ourselves.
But we resist more powerfully because we know the soft part is coming, and we don’t want to admit we have a vulnerable part of ourselves. The hard part of us resists this most of all, and we’d rather stay in the anger and egotism and competitiveness and spite than go there, than be vulnerable and soft.
But there’s another truth, one we can reach when we spend time with the soft part, when we allow ourselves to have that knowledge and those tears. That is, we really are fine. You know what? I really am a good friend and I’m not inferior to others. I have flaws in how I manage my friendships, and because I am not afraid of the dark me, or of the vulnerable me, I am okay with acknowledging those flaws, and wishing I was a better friend, and trying to be. But if I take the plunge, and look three times, I can look a fourth time and say “I am fine as I am.” And I am.
Red Witch
I just found a wonderful new blog called Red Witch, which seems to concentrate on books, articles, and information about the formative era of modern Wicca in the U.S. and England.
Definitely adding this one to my blogroll.
Busy, busy weekend
On Saturday, my youngest sister got married, and I served as the officiant. That was a two hour drive south. On Sunday, there was a big party in honor of Orien Rose, and that was a one hour drive northwest.
I am exhausted (y’think?).
And haven’t written a movie review or a meditation or anything. I do have some thoughts about my weekend which I’ll be writing up shortly, and also I did see a movie or two earlier in the week so you may get that later today.
But phew.
Friday Catblogging: A Boy and His Ledge
Arthur. Mingo. The ledge. You remember the ledge, right? And that it’s a long drop? Well, the boys don’t care:
Shiny!
There’s a new Serenity “Collector’s Edition” DVD being released, and by blogging about it, I cleverly make myself eligible to win a copy.
What’s new on the Region 1 DVD (that wasn’t on the first DVD) is:
- A new cast commentary with Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and Ron Glass. (Original edition had a Joss Whedon commentary, and that one is still there as well.
- Additional extended scenes previously only available on the Australian version.
- “A Filmmaker’s Journey,” previously on R2 and Australian versions but not US.
- “The Green Clan,” 3 minute featurette previously exclusive to the Australian version.
- A SciFi Channel special housted by Adam Baldwin with cast interviews. Never before on DVD.
- “Session 416.” The viral videos Joss did with River and released anonymously online before the movie. They will be shown in the out-of-order sequence they were originally released in. Never on DVD before.
So, that’s a fun toy to have.
