it's always somethin'!

poor roseanne rosannadanna...i never realized how pessimistic the people i surrounded myself with until i asked an old friend his opinion about something and i realized it was like, his 50th negative analysis in a row. 

take trading places.  ever had a day like dan ackroyd?  you just get off the bus after bringing a gun to your old job (the one where you were unceremoniously fired), and it starts raining.  you feel something warm and wet flowing down your left leg--it's a dog peeing on your calf.  you pull the gun out to shoot yourself, but the gun doesn't work, so you throw it down only to have it fire and hit something unintended.

mr. dan could either have given up on life, which he chose to do with a bottle of pills, or he could have counted his blessings about having jamie lee curtis care enough about him to call a doctor.  some people don't even have that.

i laugh whenever i see trading places, as it's one of my favorite movies.  it's my favorite "go to" movie when the weight of the world weighs me down.  sometimes, the world is gonna bite.  there's just no getting around that.  sometimes we are reminded of just how powerless we are against the ever-increasing entropy of the world. 

whenever we are feeling like crawling into bed with all of our clothes on, pulling the covers over our head and saying to ourselves, i am never leaving here again, we need to find humor.  we need to know that we are not alone.  i need to know that, so i go for my good buddies dan and eddie.  they never let me down.  if i need some warm snuggly feelings, i need the comfort of the steel magnolias, or jackie brown, who reminds me that i am much stronger than i think.

when life gets you down, what do you go for?  a stiff drink, a pill, food, a cigarette?  we can fall by ourselves, but we need others to help us back up.

thank you good people for being there to give a hand to a wretch like me...thanks again and again to dan, eddie, jamie and all the others for making a movie that can make you laugh for 25 years!  laughter can really be the best medicine, 'cause you know...it's always somethin'!