Thursday, December 31, 2009

Single-minded

Found the "extended Director's cut" of The Lords of Dogtown in the $4.00 bin at a large retailers, and it is fantastic.

Movie is about street skateboarding, but actually, almost better than the movie, are all the extras: interviews with all the original 1970's skateboarders who were generously given parts in the film by director Catherine Hardwicke, the deleted scenes, behind the scenes-scenes, and truly harrowing footage of the results when the actors and stuntmen wiped out, as they did with alarming regularity. And even a terrifying bit of footage as the Director herself overbalances and falls into a dry concrete swimming pool, ouch.

There is nothing like a good obsession to get your mind off, let's see, everything else!

These actors practiced surfboarding and skateboarding for 6 hours a day for a couple months to get ready, which makes Cow's relatively modest goals for 2010 seem paltry, but here goes:

-Find at least two single girlfriends to hang out with (Cow is going to start with joining the Sierra Club and possibly expand to another group) instead of, at the present time, having all her girlfriends be married. Married girlfriends just don't have the same concerns, and the friendship they offer is too limited, and usually all tied up with their kids.*

-study for at least one hour a day, starting with a big fat Excel 2007 book, going on to some others, to improve her skills, to improve her chances of getting a job Somewhere Else than Mississippi, in a couple years.

-Let go of everything else and just enjoy life.

Okay, those are fairly easy goals, so Cow wishes, not only every one else just as easily accomplishable New Year's Resolutions, but also the happiness of a New Year.

2010 Moo!

*by the way, Cow sympathizes with all the single guys who say they never meet any single women, because, Cow never meets them either! Where they are hiding, who knows, but will keep you posted.

8 Comments:

Blogger Gorilla Bananas said...

Good resolutions, Ms Cow. Maybe a single man who reads Cosmopolitan would be just as good to hang out with as a single woman. Or even better!

1:53 AM  
Blogger raydenzel1 said...

You have looked around and decided change will come from you and from within. It is like buying a new car you have not seen before, and by the time you get home you have seen many of the same kind of car. People are out there for you! all the best

3:13 PM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Gorilla:
Admittedly, Cow has set her resolutions rather low, to assure success...
A single man would be nice but frankly, Cow has chosen the wrong ones so many times she is just staying away, for now anyway.

RJ: Thank you, good analogy. Hope you have some good resolutions too, and a good year!

9:56 AM  
Blogger watercolordaisy said...

Amen single girl! If you ever want to meet for a drink or thai food or whatever, let me know. As single girls hanging out. You know. If not, I'm not hurt. heh.

10:16 AM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Watercolor:
Cow would luuuuve to meet! (Cow quickly checking your profile, getting your email, dropping you a line)

Gee, you've already cut Cow's New Year's Resolution List down! Whoopeee!

Moo!

8:41 PM  
Blogger I Hate to Weight said...

what an excellent idea -- setting resolutions rather low. hmm, i'll have to think about that for next year. very clever, cow.

i have trouble finding girlfriends too. i live in a town where even the women hunt (not for men -- for bambi). some woman was taking her 8 year old son hunting. is that safe? she didn't seem like good girlfriend material for me, needless to say.

where would you like to go? were you raised in mississippi?

skateboarding? there is no one less coordinated than i. i think even just watching a movie about skateboarding would make me fall over and break something. you are very brave.

taking a dating break can really help. there are good men out there. do you think they're all in canada or something?

4:17 PM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Weight:

Ugh would not want to be girlfriend with somebody who hunts. Ugh.

Right now Cow just wants out of the South, not raised here at all, just inertia (good job, own house) keeping her here...

Isn't it weird that even single women can't find other single women to be friends with? Guess everybody is at home blogging!

Your comments are always interesting, thank you for posting!

Moo!

6:37 PM  
Blogger watercolordaisy said...

Replied to your dropped line, Ms. Cow. Hope we can get the topiary and daisy in the same place soon.

7:58 AM  

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