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David Meiklejohn and Found’s Davy Rothbart made this film about love called My Heart Is An Idiot. It’s in post-production right now, but David has been entertaining people by posting video chunks online. He just posted an actual trailer and it’s kickass, so I’m passing it along to you:
I know that I talk a lot of crap about love, but I’m happy for people who find it and it’s always nice to see their journeys – especially through the eyes of great storytellers. Davy is coming to the Mad Art Gallery on November 13 along with his brother Peter and Frank from Post Secret. It’s guaranteed to be a great time and I will probably be pimping the hell out of this in the next 2 weeks.
I think everybody can relate to Davy’s journey. I certainly can, but I wouldn’t say that my heart is an idiot. It used to be too gullible and optimistic, for sure. Then it broke. It will probably stay like that forever, which is just as well because I don’t plan on using it anymore.
Nowadays, my heart isn’t anything. It’s like wisdom teeth or a tailbone – something I used to need in order to survive, but eventually deemed itself unnecessary. I’ve evolved to the point where my heart only gets in the way.
It’s not like I’m against love in general; it’s just not for me. I try to explain this to people in relationships*, and they like to treat me as if they know something I don’t. It pisses me off. I’ve been in love with a boy or two. I remember that trust and comfort and wonder. I may question their motives now, but at the time I believed in them with my whole heart. That’s why it hurt so badly when it broke, and that’s why I don’t use it anymore.
I vividly remember everything about being in love and I understand the concept as well as anyone else. You aren’t smarter or wiser for being in love. You just got lucky, is all. Don’t ever forget that, and try to get over yourself before they get over you.
Go see My Heart Is An Idiot when it comes out, especially if you are a couple. Aren’t movies like the only thing you people do anymore? Also, read the next entry, it’s urrrrbviously funnier than this romp.
*This is basically everyone I know. Do I have ANY single friends left? If I find more than five single friends in STL, I am throwing a party for us. It will be as exclusive as the Finer Things Club, except by “finer things” I mean “hot stuff”. Please tell me if you exist, you fine things.
The heart is a lonely hunter, bud. I just finished that book a few weeks
ago and loved it! Are you on GOODREADS? You should get on GoodReads
(www.goodreads.com) and we should be readin' buddies. I wrote a brief
review of THIALH (and a few other books I've finished in the past year or
so) there.
What book?
AND holy crap! Solidarity.
Yup, I'm single as well. Been so for quite some time now. First couple
years of it was intentional, the next few... not so much.
We may have fallen out of touch, but I believe that I'm so single that I
may actually be dating myself. It's a pretty strong relationship, I'm
thinking I could be the one.
Dude, I was just going to call you! Come see Wristcutters with me!
Your "On The TV" thing in the sidebar suggests you're watching FREAKS &
GEEKS, so I feel compelled to admit that I just finished watching them all
yesterday. AND, I am pretty certain that, while I enjoyed the series
immensely (though some aspects were major sticking points with me), I think
that the ending of the final episode is worse than any ending of any final
episode of any series I've ever seen.
I agree - it's one of my all-time favorite shows so I didn't want to hate
the ending, but yeah. Woof.
In fact I watched UNDECLARED first. It too was good (but didn't have that
awesome 1980s edge). What did annoy me about FREAKS & GEEKS is that like
none of those dudes liked any new/contemporary (1980-1981) music. Come on,
you expect me to believe that dudes as serious about music as some of them
were would only be into Pink Floyd, The Who, and Rush in 1980?