I have been thinking about the list. Should I do it or not? Do I have the strength to go through the records to see which are from this year and which not. At this point it feels like I do not have the energy for an effort of that kind. Though I will be making a list, whether it will be done today or not. That is yet to be seen. But, I just put on one of the top three records of the year, I am sitting here looking though the window seeing how the snow has covered the grey and made it all white. The snow is falling and the wind plays with the chrystals as they sail down to the ground. Christmas came and went, now it is new years eve. I am sick. Well, I have known for a while that I am sick. But now I am sick with fever and a sore throat. But in a way it is good, because now I have a legit reason for staying at home by myself on new years eve. I have bought two Woody Allen boxes and a Wong Kar-Wai box, so I will manage. Though I have watched most of the films during the last days. But I saved Annie Hall for this day. I started the day with it, it is just so good. And as I watched it today I noticed that one of my thesis here in life was in it! I had forgotten that it was in it. It is when Woody´s character walkes down the street and stops a couple. The couple looks like the people today, the ones brought up by television, the ones that are in reality shows and such, a modern couple. Fashionable clothes and fashinable hairdues, they are just about a notch above 1st graders who have just learned to write their names. Makes me sick. We have a lot of that kind of people here in Stockholm. Well, to get to the point, I have long thought about the fact of knowing things and not. Would I be happier if I had not read so many books, if I did not know so much about unnecessary things (though those things are kvintessentiell (did not find in a dictionary how to spell it in english) to me). Not that I find them unnecessary as such, just that people seem to do fine without knowing them, which I at times find hard to believe, they do not seem to need a reason for their wellbeeing, they just are.
So he says to the couple
-You look like a very happy couple. Are you? (then the woman replies)
- Yeah
- So how do you account for it?
- I´m very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
- And I´m exactly the same way.
This may be one of the things that I love about his films, at least the better ones. This is the type of films that I like, those who can make a good movie with great camera technique and film technique (the asians are great at this, it really makes it more like art) and then the ones that are well written and have a good dialog. Something we lack of in the times of commersialism. It is now worse than ever, it almost makes me sad. As I just read this post, it seems like I lift myself to a higher level, an intellectual. But I am not. But I would like to be. It is just that I spend too much time with my thoughts, and this is what I get out of it. Almost nothing.
