History is shaped by our hands.

I've been feeling the want to post here again.  Some may be wondering where my planned series of S/S Norway posts is.  These posts have been taking a lot longer to write than I thought they would, due to troubles finding truths and an unexpected emotional toll.  I'm taking a break from writing them, but I'm also not going to use them as an excuse not to write here, either.  I will post here as I think of things and write those Norway posts on the side as I am able to.

And so I soldier on...

This weekend I finally saw "Blade Runner".  12 years after chilly made it his mission to introduce me to that movie, we finally sat down to watch it on Saturday.  It didn't live up to the hype.  Now, before you all start blasting me on that sentence, let me remind you that I had 12 years of hype leading up that viewing.  No movie could have lived up to that hype.  I've never seen "The Godfather II" and I know that even though it's a classic for the ages, it's not going to live up to the 15 years of hype I've got built up for it.

And now that I've had my fun with some hype-based drama, I'll go on record and say that I really enjoyed the movie.  I'm looking forward to watching it again in a few more weeks.  Director Ridley Scott has released about 46 (read: 5) different cuts of the movie.  Our plan is to watch a few more of these cuts over the next few months to compare and contrast.  The fact that I'm looking forward to watching 4 more cuts of the movie is a good sign that I really enjoyed it, even if it didn't live up to the hype.