Batman - the Prequel
I went to see Batman Begins with R2D2 and R3 on Saturday night. fn1. I highly recommend it. It is dark, as some people have noted. However, I think the darkness works well. The underlying message of confronting the things that frighten you most was particularly meaningful to me.
This was at the forefront of my mind yesterday as I finally washed my dishes, some of which had been languishing in my sink for a very long time. I don't want to say how long, because people would probably lose all respect for me if they knew how unclean I am. Let's just say that some of them had been there since the first Bush administration. fn2. To get even more specific, Howard Dean was still a viable presidential candidate when some of these dishes were first put in the sink.
People may ask why I left my dishes for that long. The obvious answer, of course, is laziness. But it's more than that. There was some kind of mental block preventing me from tackling those dishes. And the longer they sat there, the more afraid of them I became. So, inspired by Batman and impending return of J1, I finally took care of the dishes last night.
All of this made me think that if Bruce Wayne picked the bat as his "symbol," because it represented the things he feared most, then my symbol would have to be a dirty plate, crossed with a dirty fork and spoon. Which is a pretty terrible symbol. All this is just one more reason why I'm training to be a lawyer, and not a superhero. That and I don't think anyone wants to see me in black tights.
1. The main point of this post is to mention R2D2 in again, because it is so damn funny. If only I had friends named Charlie, Paul, and Otto who hung out with R2 and I. Then I could say that I went to the movie with R2D2 and C3PO (assuming that Charlie was my third C friend). That would just be sweet, unless the movie in question was Star Wars. Then people would just assume that my friends and I were big Star Wars geeks who dress up to go to movie premiers. And while my friends and I are generally big geeks, we aren't that kind of geeks.
2. No, not that Bush administration. I was 10 years old for that one. I mean W's first term.
This was at the forefront of my mind yesterday as I finally washed my dishes, some of which had been languishing in my sink for a very long time. I don't want to say how long, because people would probably lose all respect for me if they knew how unclean I am. Let's just say that some of them had been there since the first Bush administration. fn2. To get even more specific, Howard Dean was still a viable presidential candidate when some of these dishes were first put in the sink.
People may ask why I left my dishes for that long. The obvious answer, of course, is laziness. But it's more than that. There was some kind of mental block preventing me from tackling those dishes. And the longer they sat there, the more afraid of them I became. So, inspired by Batman and impending return of J1, I finally took care of the dishes last night.
All of this made me think that if Bruce Wayne picked the bat as his "symbol," because it represented the things he feared most, then my symbol would have to be a dirty plate, crossed with a dirty fork and spoon. Which is a pretty terrible symbol. All this is just one more reason why I'm training to be a lawyer, and not a superhero. That and I don't think anyone wants to see me in black tights.
1. The main point of this post is to mention R2D2 in again, because it is so damn funny. If only I had friends named Charlie, Paul, and Otto who hung out with R2 and I. Then I could say that I went to the movie with R2D2 and C3PO (assuming that Charlie was my third C friend). That would just be sweet, unless the movie in question was Star Wars. Then people would just assume that my friends and I were big Star Wars geeks who dress up to go to movie premiers. And while my friends and I are generally big geeks, we aren't that kind of geeks.
2. No, not that Bush administration. I was 10 years old for that one. I mean W's first term.
posted by N at 4:21 PM
4 Comments:
Oh but Nathan, we already have seen you in tights >:) be proud and dance on!
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And you thought you could hide your sordid, tights-wearing past from the world! Think again! Go s1, go!
i knew that my time as Lord of the Dance would come up based on my post. In fact, I was practically inviting it, but I decided to leave it unsaid to give yall the pleasure of bringing it up. =)
besides, just because I have been "photographed" wearing black tights doesn't mean people want to see me wearing them.
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