I'm outta here

Dear blogging friends,

If you'd like to keep up with me this next year, please revert your bloggie selves to:

http://corismith.theworldrace.org.

Sincerely,
me. :-)

Yay Layne!

I'd like to dedicate this post to my friend Layne who's graduating this weekend!!!!!! Woot!! Congrats friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)





(Do you realize what this means? This means that I graduated a YEAR ago!!!!! what?!?!)

who thinks of this stuff?!

Someone barbecue-sauced part of my car last night...

who did it?!

the soloist.

the.best.movie.I.have.seen.all.year.

this is a very powerful movie. the love in this movie, I believe, is more powerful than that of latika and what's his face on slumdog millionaire.

I'd write more about it if I didn't have to work in a few hours. but I have many, many thoughts...

one of the most powerful quotes:

"You can't cure Nathaniel. Just be his friend and show up."

one of the most powerful scenes: (pictured below)

I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone, but you really should see it. basically the man in the right in the above photo writes for the LA times and decides to write a column on Nathaniel, on the left. Nathaniel went to Julliard years back and is a very skilled musician, but now is homeless and basically a schizophrenic... they meet when Steve Lopez (columnist) finds him on the street playing only a 2-stringed violin.

it's a story about their friendship which develops because of his column and interest in helping Nathaniel... he has to figure out what does helping him mean/look like? how does he help him? it's a story about grace and loving when it doesn't make sense, and when it's hard.

it's a story about...... ok just go see it already.