nowhere I’d rather be, part II
I just finished watching The Holiday. It was great to feel related to. My laugh-out-loud and three rounds of tears felt ridiculous, yet strangely therapeutic, with both roommates gone.
In the movie, the central character, Iris, is plagued by a five year bout of unrequited love. Upon moving to Los Angeles from London, Iris meets the man who will be rescuing her from her frustrating past. They meet, as most modern day love stories would have it, in front of her gorgeous new mansion in the Hollywood hills. As they stand face to face, meeting for the first time, yet acting as though they’ve known each other for their entire lives (love at first sight will apparently do that to people) her hero, Miles, (surprisingly, yet somehow appropriately played by Jack Black) suddenly remembers he has something important to do and leaves her head spinning with this goodbye as he dashes back into is Porsche:
“The wind… it’s what makes it so warm this time of year. Legend has it, when the Santa Anas blow, anything can happen.”
And as I watched, bleary-eyed and mascara smudged, wrapped in my ratty blanket, I sipped my coffee, considered the thought, and ate hopeless romanticism for breakfast.
I feel ya sista…
Have you seen “The Family Stone”?
You’ll ball your eyes out and love every second of it!
p.s. For the record, I didn’t ball my eyes out.
80 degrees. Yuck. How un-Christmasy! You need to come up some time and go snowboarding with me. Okay?
I love that movie. I have the sound track and listen to it often. Siiigh. Everything is always perfect and works out like a well-written script for everyone else; except me! After all though, it is just a movie….