I feel like a "kid the day before I leave everything I've known for the better part of a year to go play music in the mission field"

So yeah, I leave. Actually to be precise, it is the day of my departure and I'm leaving in 2ticks over just a skosh (see previous post).

I saw Garden State the other day. Excellent movie. It doesn't beat out Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind though. And here's why. I liked it, don't get me wrong, but Garden State was just heavy the entire time. It was one of those movies that is overtly packed with deep stuff. A lot of movies do this poorly. They try to be so meaningful with every bit of dialogue, with every second of every scene, and they fall short. Garden State doesn't fall short. Every scene is meaningful, and every bit of dialogue is sharp and relevant. But this type of format, the format of being overtly, although in Garden State's case superbly, deep at every turn is just a bit numbing at times. Where as, a movie like Eternal Sunshine never feels like it goes overboard with sentiment and it's analysis of human existence, yet it manages in retrospect to go just is far in both regards. That's why it's more important to let characters actions and stories speak for themselves than to give them amazingly deep dialogue. You gotta have both, but too much existential dialogue just numbs me a bit.

Well that's that. My mom is calling me to eat cereal with her. I have to go. And I want to leave you with one of my favorite Kurt Russell quotes:

Kim Kattrall: "See you around Burton"
Kurt Russell: "Never can tell"

in Christ,
jason

ps there are some pictures of my going away party and singing at JMK if you follow the link on the left side of this page.