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ladysprite) wrote2002-02-03 02:23 pm
ladysprite) wrote2002-02-03 02:23 pm
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Internal Dilemmas
I've been invited to a Superbowl Party tonight. This is a first for me. I feel so amazingly tame and mainstream, in a good way. I'm part of Middle American Culture. There's a kinship and a connection with nearly everyone else in the country. Okay, so I don't give two hoots and a holler about the game itself, and I don't really understand how it's played. It'll be a fun social event. My friends will be there, and there will be food and conversation and fun. I was wholeheartedly looking forward to going.
Until I realized the dirty trick that television is playing on me.
Tonight, opposite the game, TNT is running 'Gone With the Wind.' In it's entirety. That's just not fair.
Gone With the Wind. Ohhhh.... Such a glorious story, such amazing actors. And the costumes.... hoopskirts and lace and utterly to die for. Romance, angst, strong women, quotable lines, and gorgeous costumes. And Rhett Butler. I love my boyfriend, and I know he could never be replaced by a fictional character, but he makes something inside me ache.... and did I mention the costumes?
I know I'll have fun at the party, and as my friend pointed out, I can rent 'Gone With the Wind' anytime. But the urge to call off sick and bake a pan of brownies, then spend the night on my sofa, burrowed under a blanket with my cats and my sewing, watching the movie by myself, is disturbingly strong.
I'll go. I'll enjoy it. But I know that, if nothing else, at the precise moment that they're airing the scene when Rhett carries Scarlett up that magnificent spiral staircase, I'll feel it, and miss it. I'm so hopelessly girly....
Until I realized the dirty trick that television is playing on me.
Tonight, opposite the game, TNT is running 'Gone With the Wind.' In it's entirety. That's just not fair.
Gone With the Wind. Ohhhh.... Such a glorious story, such amazing actors. And the costumes.... hoopskirts and lace and utterly to die for. Romance, angst, strong women, quotable lines, and gorgeous costumes. And Rhett Butler. I love my boyfriend, and I know he could never be replaced by a fictional character, but he makes something inside me ache.... and did I mention the costumes?
I know I'll have fun at the party, and as my friend pointed out, I can rent 'Gone With the Wind' anytime. But the urge to call off sick and bake a pan of brownies, then spend the night on my sofa, burrowed under a blanket with my cats and my sewing, watching the movie by myself, is disturbingly strong.
I'll go. I'll enjoy it. But I know that, if nothing else, at the precise moment that they're airing the scene when Rhett carries Scarlett up that magnificent spiral staircase, I'll feel it, and miss it. I'm so hopelessly girly....