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CJ: "People gotta change."

Indy: "They always do. Worlds change. Rulars change. Even beliefs change."

CJ: "Yeah? How?"

Indy: "Sometimes a natural disaster. Sometimes just a very wise person. A very evil person can change things. But, most of all, wars."

CJ: "I don't want a war. I want change to come 'cause it's right and everyone knows it's right."


You and me both, CJ.

This one's from one of my absolute favorite Indy episodes, The Mystery of the Blues. Apart from the one where Indy gets sick and feverish, I think I watched this one more than any other. I cannot get enough of fanboy!Indy. He's SO adorable when he's fanboying. I was SO relieved to see that they kept the Harrison Ford bookends. I'm still miffed at their taking out the Old Indy parts of other episodes, so I was worried they would do the same for this one. But how can you cut Harrison Ford out of anything, right? I was also startled to see someone I thought was a young Forest Whitaker. Turns out it's Forest's little brother, Damon Whitaker. They look SO alike though. And Piano Man was one of my favorites in Sid's band when I was younger. He's got such a great smile.

"There are all kinds of ways of life in this world. One is not right, one is not wrong. Understanding others, we can accept them. And through acceptance comes a peaceful world."
~Bronislaw Malinowski in Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

Just one of those formative quotes from my youth I'm glad to remember right now :-) I wish I knew if that was an actual quotation of his or just something the script writers came up with, but I can't find anything like it attributed to him in quotation databases. Either way, they're good words. Let's all imagine each other more complexly, like the Vlogbrothers say.

“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~John Irving

I've been itching to start drawing lately. melydia posted this site on Twitter: http://bit.ly/apo0Ud
And it totally made me jealous.

And I finally got around to going through Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci & Edited by H. Anna Suh that I took out of the library.

I love da Vinci and this was great insight into the way his mind worked as well as into what appeals to me most. I found myself drawn much more to the landscapes, buildings, and objects. So many more straight lines and definitive strokes compared to the curve-filled portraits and action-filled battle scenes. What was interesting was also the commands in the written notes he left himself. Things like "The air must be full of arrows in every direction, some shooting upwards, some falling, some flying level." and "The light must be arranged in accordance with the natural conditions under which you wish to represent your figures...." He puts a few "might"s in there as well, but there are a ton of "must"s.

Anyway, these two quotes jumped out at me from a writer's standpoint:

"The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror whichh copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence."

"Of studying in the dark, when you wake, or in bed before you go to sleep: I myself have proved it to be of no small use, when in bed in the dark, to recall in fancy the external details of forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by subtle spectulation; and this is certainly an admirable exercise, and useful for impressing things on the memory."

This one is also great for lazy people like me:
"He who sufferes time to slip away and does not grow in virtue: the more one thinks about him the sadder one becomes.
No man has a capacity for virtue who sacrifices honor for gain. Fortune is powerless to help one who does not exert himself."

Thsi was on a faerie plaque in a catalog I got in the mail today. I think it might just be my favorite quote ever now. If I could cross stitch worth a damn, I'm put it on a sampler and frame it on my wall :-)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

According to Yahoo, that quote was in Hitch, but it seems to be attributed everywhere to Anonymous. That Anonymous. He always thinks up the best, quotable lines! heehee

"Since then I've learned that you have to figure out the ending first. And then work backwards. Cause if you don't know where you're going, you can't get there."
-Andrew Fleming in audio commentary for 'Threesome'
(talking about the ending he wrote post-production that seemed better than the others though still not perfect)

Perhaps this is my problem with writing. Most of the time I don't know exactly where I'm going.

"If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice."
~Meister Eckhart

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

I'm coding an article at work about a poet(named Henri Coulette) who passed on, written by one of his former students. And the student quoted this from the poet's epigram "The Whole Story":
In Camelot, King Arthur came a lot,
With two queens, Guinevere and Lancelot.

I cracked up (softly, as I'm at work).