I’ve been watching movies over the holidays. Catching up on some recent stuff. When you have kids and about 5 bazillion great TV shows to watch, movies take a back seat.
The best of them was probably The Hateful Eight, Tarantino’s latest. But that is not what gave me an idea to write about. I also saw two extremely good science fiction movies in Interstellar and The Martian. I think Interstellar was the better of the two.
What you notice about these types of films are that you always have that one character that is consumed by their passion. In the case of the Sci-Fi movies it is physics or astronomy or something, but it could just as easily be another film with some character obsessed with the guitar or painting or architecture or whatever else. I admire these people.
They exist in real life too. I have always admired people who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up and then went ahead and did it. I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up and I still don’t. I don’t really have a burning passion for anything, unless you count eating cheese or wasting enormous amounts of time on the internet.
So here is to all those who have some sort of flaming desire to be or do something. We’ll celebrate that with a video no one here has probably seen, of a song no one here has probably heard, by a guy who most here have probably never heard of. It’s good old retro 80’s, like your’s truly.
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