Have I mentioned before how much I love Netflix? Not just for the cheap movies coming within three days, but increasingly for the Watch Now feature which opens up all kinds of options. Almost all seasons of South Park are available (excellent for background noise when doing research) and tons of documentaries, which I have been kind of addicted to lately. Some of the most recent are Bigger, Stronger, Faster follows a brother's look into steroid use in America (and his family) and Jihad of Love, which follows the lives of several gay men and women in the Muslim world - interesting portrayals and perspectives all around.
One of my most recent viewings (though this was an actual DVD) was The Shop Around the
Corner - what You've Got Mail was based on. It's a brilliant movie with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and takes place in Hungary--of all places. You would expect New York or Chicago, but Budapest seems so far away and exotic. And you wouldn't have known it was Hungary at all, there wasn't any incorporation of Hungarian culture - it could have been New York or the town Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey was from.I love the premise, the idea that two people can meet and connect over letters. This doesn't necessarily have to be about love, but just mutual interests and curiosity. Which is, I suppose, exactly what the blogosphere is now. People posting their thoughts and musings ranging from being a military spouse to the trials and tribulations of internet dating, which is a hilarious experience, by the way. And you when your done writing you post it out into the ethos, like a giant yellow post-it on the cork board at work. And then people find your post-it as they are Googling or reading someone who read someone who read you once and put it on their blog role. I think we need a new incarnation of the story; first letters then e-mail now it should be a blog - So and so has posted on your blog - not catchy, but I'm putting the idea out there. : )
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Pipsqeak, coming to and fro from Kuwait we touched down in Budapest. They wouldn't let us off of the plane, but from the air it was a beautiful city. I knew an Air Force Cpt that had spent a couple of days there with his wife and said they both loved it.
I once knew a guy that got a letter from a girl while over seas. A friend had suggested him, Then a letter with perfume and then one with cologne, six letters later, they met and were engaged. He was a Grunt and she was a Model.
See, App, that's what they make movies about! *sigh* I suppose its a little too sentimental to wish things still happened like that, but I do.
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