My Addled Brain

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest

Davy Jones is no match
for the fearsome might of the
Ghost Pirate LeChuck

It’s a fun movie, to be sure - and as I always say, everything is better with the careful addition of pirates to the narrative. Granted, this is an overblown Jerry Bruckheimer production, but that just means you have to switch the brain a little more off than usual. But even a fully disengaged brain can’t help but watch this and realize it’s watching the Monkey Island movie. The only things missing were a used boat salesman and perhaps a little more insult swordfighting:

Norrington: You fight like a dairy farmer!
Jack: How appropriate, you fight like a… *spaces out for a bit* … tip of my tongue …
Will (offscreen): A cow.
Jack: *eyes flash wide momentarily* Right! A cow. Knew it would come to me.

I should write screenplays for money.

Superman Returns:

No doubt about it;
Supes is one creepy stalker.
Get him registered.

I’d love to say that it took me three weeks to come up with that haiku, but clearly, that’s not the case. But somehow, the premise behind this movie seems to parallel my life right now. I feel like I’ve been lost in space for months, trying to figure out exactly what my place is. Am I the web designer? The blogger? The IT admin? The entrepreneur?

As of late, I’ve been none of these.

The other night, I set down a list of everything that I both need to do, and want to do, in the short term future. It’s a surprisingly long list. And no wonder I’ve felt lost - I keep trying to do all of them at once. As a consequence, I get none of them done.

You’d think I was a wreck lately with all of this soul-searching and whining. But not everything has been a wretched morass. I’m seeing someone new, someone about as different as anyone I’ve ever dated. She’s not what people might peg as “my type” - at least not at first. For example, some people might think she’s out of my league. And this might just be true. But then, I think all men try to date out of their league. It just seems to have worked for me.

At any rate, I plan to spend this weekend going through that list and figuring out a game plan - what’s most important, what’s not important, and everything inbetween. And then…