Film

As for many others, movies are an important part of my life. If you think about the whole process from the screenplay to the storyboard, casting, lighting, etc. to it going in your eyes, to the fact that these artistic collaborative endeavors end up messing with our minds, often changing them profoundly... well, as Martha would say, "It's a good thing."

The messing with the mind can be serious or funny. Try watching Spike Lee’s “Kings of Comedy” and not saying “mo’fo.” I learned that the hard way after watching it on a long flight. “Take off my shoes? Say what, mo’fo?” Not good.

Then there was that crazed time when I thought that almost every situation could be answered by a line from “Apocalypse Now.” Try it. It’s true. Like in reference to today’s world “the bullshit piled up so fast… you needed wings to stay above it.”

But today it is Andy Dufresne from the Shawshank Redemption "Get busy living, or get busy dying."

Party on, Garth.