How them values have changed...

Driving home tonight, from the movies (more on this in a sec), my radio picked up the sounds of Nine Inch Nails' infamous song, "Closer." You know, the song that's lyrics include the repeated line, "I want to #@$% you like an animal?" I can remember hearing that song when I was a kid -- in the car with my buddies -- and all of us gasping in horror over the word #@$%. Little did I know this explitive would habitually slip from my lips on regular basis in my non-work, non-professional, often-after-a-few-beers-only-with-close-trusted-friends own time.

So tonight Hope and I went and saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I (of course) read the book, so the plot wasn't too surprising. I found myself mildly irritated by the fact the images were so dark, violent, and unlike the movie I'd had in my head while reading (yes, please insert your "books are better than movies" quip here). Plus, the movie was a long one. It's funny that this movie bothered me because it was dark, violent, and supposed to based on a children's novel. Like I said, how them values certainly have changed... from being in a state of shock and awe over the word #@$% as a child, to finding a "kids" movie dark andviolent. My head definitely is in a different place.

In other news...

I think my SUV-buying fixation has ended (at least until I really do have a teaching contract). The quaint little misguided theory that I could purchase one this spring is .... err... welll... misguided.

I finished reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants today. GOOD BOOK. Ok, allow me to qualify that statement -- good, youthful, Ya-Ya-esque, girl-ish book. That's not to say my book recommendation is riddled with gender bias, more, the book's main characters are four females and they have a "bond of sisterhood" and therefore I'd reckon girls might be more drawn to the book than boys HOWEVER the themes surely could be appreciated by either gender. So there. You should read it.

I'm pondering how I want to spend my New Years. Foggy, coldish weather for some reason brought this on.