Sunday, June 25, 2006

Knit One, Click Two


I can knit! After watching a section of a worn knitting video multiple times, I finally got the hang of it. So I spent hours the next two days knitting an unidentified object. I sort of messed up a few times, but at last I figured out that if I made it really skinny, it was almost impossible to mess up. So now I'm knitting a cute green scarf. It's turning out very well, and I have plenty of yarn. The ball of yarn is so huge it resembles a huge green vegetable just resting there on the couch next to me. I should name it. I guess I'll name it Veggie. Pretty soon Veggie will be all gone, transformed into a scarf or two like a caterpillar turned into a butterfly. Anyway, my fingers are sore from knitting, but it's getting much less painful the more I do it. It's rather fun! As I knit, my background entertainment has been either Britcoms (especially Keeping up Appearances) and Turner Classic Movies. I didn't even have time to blog yesterday because I was so busy knitting.

So I saw Click yesterday, and it made me think. A lot. In the movie, Adam Sandler gets a remote that controls his life. Literally. It can fast forward, pause, and rewind his life. But it gets out of hand when he fast forwards too far, and his life is going by too fast. Of course, through the whole movie I was wondering why he didn't just hit rewind so he could go back. It's like when I saw The Wizard of Oz and kept wondering why Dorothy didn't just flip over the stupid hour glass when the Witch locked her up. But, then there wouldn't be a movie. Anyway, Click made me think about how horrible it would be to fast forward through life. Never getting to experience all the great things and never learning from mistakes or getting stronger from hard times. Of course, Adam Sandler didn't get much warning about it. He thought it was just a TV remote. And by the way, it's great that Christopher Walken is finally getting some new work. I mean, he's not in anything.

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