I had seen this movie called "Little Children" starring Kate Winslet that is a very accurate,albeit cliched look of the life of an educated,empowered young woman in Suburbia,and how the gossip and the attention to trivial detail is too suffocating for her open and broad mind.How does she deal with it? By having an affair.Of course,the stimulus was when she found her husband jerking off to lingerie(not her's).
It is a black comedy in that it shows how the bad choices we make are sometimes preceeded by moments of sheer hilarity.....which is a lot like real life.There are also other sub plots involving a child molester just out of prison,a gung-ho ex cop who is mentally unstable,for reasons unkown until the end,and a law student who still hasn't passed the bar exam with a son and a successful career wife,and how he doesn't really want to be a lawyer-the look in his face when he joins the skateboarding group shows that his interests perhaps lie elsewhere.
How many of us actually like what we do?
John Mayer is a genius.Quite simply put. I have been listening to "Room for Squares" again and it seems amazing.The lyrics are mature,even though they sing of love (and of one's body being a wonderland).The guitaring is top notch,even though it's not flashy and doesn't have amazingly fast speed metal solos!
I had recently quit my job in the search for greener pastures,and a psychiatry residency.Hope the risk pays off now. The hospital where I worked was top notch,with the finest doctors one could assemble under a single roof.Only thing was there wasn't a psych residency available,hence the decison to quit.
More later.
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