The Little Things
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I was having a discussion with my flatmate yesterday and we started thinking that it\rquote s strange sometimes what makes people excited. I\rquote m not talking about the more common things like catching up with friends or spending time with your partner for example, but more those things that are only satisfying to you alone. And more often than not it\rquote s usually something that isn\rquote t of great concern or of interest to 99% of the rest of the population.
One of those things for my flatmate is the line-up on television on a Wednesday night. She loves Australian drama shows and so when Wednesday\rquote s come, she turns off her phone for a couple of hours and chills out watching McLeod\rquote s Daughters and Blue Heelers. She told me she even looks forward to it during the day and plans her day around it.
For me, it was the other day while I was editing some footage. I have just edited a scene and layed down the music when I could sense the scene was coming together nicely. Playing it back, I just sat there with this shit eating grin on my face. Of course, no-one was around to witness my magnificent cinematic feat nor would anyone else care less, but I got up, jumped around the room, screaming out the words \ldblquote Hell yeah!\rdblquote ten million times.
I’d like to hear what you find personally exciting that not a lot of other people know about. My example is pretty piss poor but if you can come up with some really good ones, post away! The more idiosyncratic and real, the better.
6 Responses to “The Little Things”
On TV in the UK late last night, Live & Let Die and When Harry Met Sally were shown. These are two of many movies that I watched to death on video when I was in my early teens. Last night I recognised dialogue that I or others had taken from films like this and put into our own vocabulary. The same thing happenned with Top Gun, the Breakfast Club and many others. And when you don’t see the movies that the dialogue came from for years and years, you forget where the line originally came from, then you see it again, and then you smile. Know what I mean?
Quirky people make me smile. There’s this girl I met in a bar in Edinburgh about 18 months ago who makes me belly laugh.
And when I can get a room of strangers singing together at the top of their lungs. That makes me think “Hell yeah!”
Yeah I can relate to the singing thing somewhat. Especially when more and more people start to join in. I remember when I had a jam session a while back, the people I were with were members of a band and once I started singing and playing the guitar, they got their instruments out of their van and started playing along. That was definately a “hell yeah!” moment.
Those (rare) days I can just lie on the grass and feel the sun warm my body and look up into the sky. . .that makes me smile. Seeing a dog on the beach yesterday that looks like my dog (who is now thousands fo miles away). . .that made me smile . . .and cry.
Arriving in a new town in a new country, meeting a new bunch of random people, and spending all night drinking sangria on the beach with them talking rubbish. . .that makes me think “hell yeah”. . this is living.
Was the movie you were editing the one with Ray dancing in it, the one that will make Ray Tumale a household name along Ricky Martin? Cos if it was i can truly understand why you were so happy about it!
I guess it would be the anticaption i feel which i’m sitting down for a meal in a restaraunt that i have never been to before….just waiting for the food to come not knowing if it will be shite or the best meal of my life…..(can you tell i eat out allot)….
PS
if you have the chance go to the golden harvest in Footscray they have the best BBQ pork in melbourne
Waking up and knowing that you have absolutely nothing to do that day, that puts a smile on my face. I spread my arms and then hug the blanket close and grin. It is a feeling of complete relaxation, knowing that the day belongs to you and anything that happens is at your discretion.