Away We Go

This is a no brainer. Just go see it. I was lucky enough to actually go on a date with my wife at the historic HollyWood Theatre, which made the night even better.

Its a snappy breezy encouraging movie that somehow makes a insurance salesman appear hip. Maya Rudolph is just the bomb. She is about as real as they come.

The concept of built in grand parents is soon demolished as the only living parents decide to move to Brussels right before the baby birth.

I like the idea of a whirlwind tour to visit various defective families of North America to decide where to live to end the cycle of being a Fvck Up. Nobody in their right mind would move to Arizona and especially given the odd ball denizens encountered there. Madison albeit a lovely place, is inhabited by old zen yoga friends who give unasked for parental advice. The stroller scene is just funny as hell. Montreal, the logical place for anybody to move, is angelic and our parents to be claim too early that they are going to move here.

They not only decide where to live but how to live.

A sudden trip to Florida to aid a divorcing brother is a Malaprop (I think) and a reflection into family lost, which some how leads the couple to where they always should have been. I think. Exactly where that is purely speculation.

its a simple movie, its smart and its quirky. Just go see it Rob.

You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity
By Dave Eggers

David Eggers wrote the screenplay to Away we Go which I have not seen yet. I had started this book years ago and Icouldn't get through it.

Readers Block - I invented this word as I guess I was blocked when I read this. I was probably going through a hard time or something. Well these are easier times to get through books.

You Shall Know Our Velocity is thought provoking and funny as hell. Two friends are given a bunch of money they really do not want and set out on a trip around the world to give it away.

I was discussing this book with my wife and we are thinking of making a similar trip in the near (not so distant) future.

Just the sponteneity and cast of characters encountered are intoxicating and Eggers does an excellent job of describing the pace and mood of each destination. it reads kind of like a sane Hunter S Thompson novel (thats oxi-impossible)

"...And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."

This novel does just that, it encourages us to move and see the world, it tugs us to push the envelope and have fun along the way.

Notes

On the other hand, Eggers is a hero to writers. At least, he's a hero to me, bucking his publishers, firing his agents, demanding this and that as he travels around -- I love the guy. It's a reliable measure of his ego, I guess, that when he formed his own publishing company he called it "McSweeney's Books" and not "Eggers' Books," and that his foundation to teach writing to underprivileged children in San Francisco -- where he lives, damn it -- isn't called "The Eggers Project" but "826 Valencia," after its address. I doubt I'd have the energy to do what Eggers does even if I weren't twice his age, or feeling like it when I look at his résumé.