Finding Mu

I flew back home to Toronto yesterday and got to use Air Canada's cool new in-seat entertainment systems, where you can choose whatever movie you want. Everybody gets their own little LCD screen. It's touch-sensitive, though the touch sensitivity isn't that good- I had to press volume-up like 100 times to get it to the right level.

I chose to watch this French movie "La Moustache."

It was a hilarious movie (but not a comedy). Basically, a guy cuts off his moustache and goes insane after asking his girlfriend what she thinks of his new "clean look", to which she responds that he never had a moustache in the first place. Who comes up with a plot like that? Seriously?

It's the kind of movie that just blows up in extremeness. I like those movies. :) It leads you wishing, wishing, wishing, that everything will be explained in the end. But of course, as artsy film makers are likely to do, they never tie up all the loose ends, and you are left figuring it out for yourself.

If I had to take a guess, none of the middle part movie is real. The main character, Marc, is just imagining what *might* happen if the people in his life really did insist he never had a moustache. But he never actually shaves his moustache until he's in China at the end.

Fun stuff... and recommended!

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News around Seattle is that there's supposed to be a massive storm today, the likes of which the city has never seen. Predicting floods, power outages, etc. Hype? We'll see.

Here's a Seattle PI picture from yesterday showing a man knocked down flat on his face, right in the middle of the street:

"An unidentified woman, a good Samaritan, moves in to offer a helping hand to a man who was knocked down in the middle of a crosswalk by strong winds in downtown Seattle Wednesday. (December 14, 2006)"

I just love that picture. :) And here's the radar picture right now:

Be careful if you live under the transmission towers in Queen Anne, or if you happen to be a crane operator.

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Just had to mention this awesome blog post here about the "Design Disease". Some guy in London giving a visual tour of what it feels like to be obsessed with design: words, numbers, objects, colors... you name it.

I think Seattle is chock full of such people. But over here we're lucky enough to have it span a wide range of things... Yes, you've got the interesting signs, sights, and people of Capitol Hill and Fremont, but you can't help but see the design in nature itself... Looking over deep choppy water to a beautiful sky split purple/blue right through the middle, backdropping snow-capped mountains with the sun's rays pushing their way through (*sigh* that was long...) ...can't help but get your jaw to drop.

And in case you don't know what Seattle artsies look like, here's a really good Flickr ablum and website of some of them. :)

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