There's a song that I love called "I Hate Everyone". It's by a band called Get Set Go, and I only know about it because it was on the soundtrack to one of the seasons of Grey's Anatomy. At any rate, it's how I feel all too often. Don't misunderstand me, I don't really mind feeling that way... I kind of feel like it's perfectly acceptable, even laudable for me to feel how I do at any given time.  I don't even feel guilt over my ill-disguised disgust of "herrings and mackerels" as D.H. Lawrence so cleverly put it. I'm pretty damn good at righteous indignation. So, the picture for today ties in nicely with another love of mine-movies, notably Little Miss Sunshine. I watched it last night, and it never fails to put me in a better mood. My brother Grant doesn't like it, or doesn't get it, or something, but I feel like the movie really shows average people. Ok, so some of the events are extraordinary, and the situations might not be realistic, but the people are painfully, gloriously real. The house is pretty gross, the people pathetic, the amazing little girl totally clueless, but it ties together to paint a real picture of the way people really can be. The music is incredible, and there are few movie scenes so involving and hilarious as the talent portion of the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. Ok, so for us Americans perhaps the German subtitles are a little detracting- so rent the movie if you haven't seen it already. Or come watch it with me.

While I'm on movies to uplift; The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and I Heart Huckabees are all miraculous.

Side note: I'm a little miffed that I couldn't post the heart as the "greater than three" thing. The blog thinks I'm trying to talk geek, which I am not. Blast!

I have a profoundly great reason for posting this blog today but it wouldn't make anyone feel better to know about it, and really I feel great sharing two of my favorite things with you as it is.