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I watched Gattaca last night.  I like this movie as it's very inspirational and moving.  Highly recommended to anyone for that extra boost of energy.

hey Lyra--then maybe i can hire u to write the screenplay for the movie the insignificant other and i came up with one day.  wherein a plumber, a nurse practitioner, and a welder save the world.  with a k-mart children's play microscope kit, junk from the welder's scrap metal pile (which really exists on my sideyard--we could build a tesla coil, and a motorized ark with the mess he's made on my property), and the plumber's knowledge of hydraulics, valves and militant ex-vietnam vet fighting spirit.  we wrote the thing walking around a swap meet.  the day we found, and this is no shit, a book on dragons, which i havent even read yet.  (got it for more tattoo ideas for the other half--him being a white wizard and all).

we're in the shift, things dont look good in this sector, it shifted and we're stuck in a second wave, so we have to diagnose, and eradicate a virus that is spreading, as hordes of invaders are upon us.  time is short.  we have nothing other than crap to work with.  its my usual theme.  cant remember alot of it now.  shouldve written it down.  kept notes.  i bet u could come up with a great dialogue, and we could weave in all our fav stuff in many scenes. (it was really cool, at the time.  i guess one had to be there.  sounds assinine now).

god dude!  this is way too synchy.  we WERE supposed to meet.. far frickin OUT.  and the chick who used to live down the street, hung out everyday with that babe, was a plumber herself, and an RN; her husband was a plumber, and they were TADA---IRISH.  from New York, but migrated to good ole cali.  they were majorly sppoked by all kinds of shit in that house and he ended up dying in front of my house.  got hit by a car.  she and i did CPR on him, in the middle of the road.  everybody freaked on that and moved away.  including the neighbor i had known from 5 BC macedonia from across the street.  that ruined everything here for awhile.  then i picked up later with another plumber whose cousin is george bush's (was) lawyer.   have a thing for plumbers i guess.  and nurses, and midwives.  im into gynecology--hey that's PLUMBING from another angle isnt it?   neat fantasy type movie idea free*.  also have learned to love jim carrey.  his story is really cool.  he does all kinds of stuff in his backyard i hear, and meditates, studies, in a beautiful garden he had especially designed into some kind of shinto temple thing.  he got way more spiritual and says he's experimenting with consciousness expansion these days.   i think its great hes with jenny mccarthy.   theyre 2 of a kind.   hes actually brilliant.  some of his lines from the Grinch were absolutely brilliant.  nothing was better than fireman bill.  i bet he has a high IQ, obviously.

I was just talking about this last night with my wife.  Jim Carrey has made some great films over the last few years all with some great concepts.  We were thinking about this because we had just watched "Lord or War" with Nicolas Cage - and he is the total antithesis of Jim Carrey.  It seems that lately Nic Cages moves are very subversive, and tow the line with what TPTB want people thinking, "World Trade Center" is a great example of that.  But look at many of his other recent films "National Treasure", "The Wicker Man".

We just thought it weird how his films seem to have the totally opposite affect of Jim Carrey's movies.  In both cases it only seems to have happened over the last 7 or 8 years maybe.

Well what are the odds that you guys would have been discussing not only Jim Carrey, but the same exact thing about Jim Carrey that I was thinking myself on the same night???  !!!   That's weird!   More message board synchs. 

I've never been a Nicholas Cage fan anyway.  I've always wavered back and forth between slight dislike and neutral with him.  But admittedly I quite enjoyed him in National Treasure!  I did!    But speaking of your Carrey/Cage comparison, check this out:  I don't know if you've ever seen the movie "Adaptation" (written by Charlie Kaufman, the same guy who wrote "Eternal Sunshine..." starring Carrey) but in Adaptation, Cage's character, to me, was SOOOO much like Joel in Eternal Sunshine, and the way Cage played him, the way he talked, his mannerisms, I kept getting him confused for the entire movie with Jim Carrey!  That's all I could think, was that the role seemed to be Joel through and through.  So that's weird that you've made a connective comparison between the two guys when both guys played nearly the same type of role in different Charlie Kaufman movies. 

Dear God, what does it meeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!   

Hey NR'ers I've been rather absent from any discussions for a long while, but still around picking up"pondering material" as I like to call it, from time to time.

Re: Jim Carrey & Nick Cage... they were best friends in the early days, shortly after Jim came down to L.A. from Toronto.  I saw a really good biography on Carrey a few years ago, I think on A&E, and Nick was interviewed in a couple spots talking about how their friendship goes way back, & it's one of those deep bonds that is there though they are not always hanging out together these days (paraphrased).  So, perhaps this somehow plays into their abilities to channel/pick up similar mannerisms, etc...

I like Jim Carrey, I remember being on the bus in school mimicking his "fire marshall bill" bit, watching ace venture 15+ times, etc...  But let me just say I'm not so sure about the '23' movie, after seeing the trailer a couple times.  I don't know, I could be wrong, maybe it is some divinely inspired flick that made it through Hollywood's propaganda tentacles, but to me it just felt like traditional hollywood skewing or twisting of a legitimate thing (in this case seeing numbers) for disinfo purposes.  So maybe the more enlightened among the audience will see through the spin of the message (and maybe this is the intention), but imo it could be a disinfo project.  Like "all these people are having number sightings now ... what an opportunity to apply spin and subvert with fake or at least slightly skewed meanings, causation and application!"  This is hollywood, after all, right?    The makers-of-the-fake... though occasionally some truly 'inspired' material does come through.