The Mirror has Two Faces

call me obsessive, but i memorized these lines from Barbra's character in the movie:

Rose: So,this is the scene at my sister's wedding right? There she is getting drunk, regretting she ever got married (for the third time mind you!), my mother's so jealous she's probbing snakes from her hair, and I was thinking, this is perfect, we've got three feminine archetypes here: the divine whore (excuse me), medusa, and me, who am I what archetype? Travis?
Travis: Virgin Mary?
Rose: No, the faithful handmaided, always the bridemaid, never the bride! It does prove however, that myths and archetypes are alive and real and living in my apartment! As I stood at the altar beside my sister and her husband to be, it struck me that this ritual called a wedding ceremony is really just a final scene of a fairy tale. They never tell you what happens after, they never tell you that Cinderella drove the prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle, cause she missed her day job, right? No, they don't tell us what happens after because, there is no after. The biol and the endol of romantic love is? Mike?
Mike: sex?
Rose: Mike, mike sex, on the brain mike right? No, (to student)
Girl: Marriage
Rose: Yes, but it wasn't always like that. During the 12th century there was a notion known as courtly love, where love has nothing to do with marriage, and nothing to do with sex. In most cases it was defined as a passionate relationship between a knight and a lady of the court who is already married, and so they could never consumate their love. In this way they would have to rise above the ordinary, you know, going to the bathroom in front of each other kind of love, and would go after something more divine. They took sex out of the equation and what was left was a union of souls. Sex, was always the fatal love potion. Look at the literature of the time Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan und Isolde, all consumation could lead to was madness, despair or death. Critical experts (call it my ancestors) are united in the belief that true love have spiritual dimentions while romantic love is nothing but a lie, an illusion, a modern myth, a soulless manipulation. And speaking of manipulation, it's like going to the movies, and we see the lovers on-screen kiss, and then the music swells and we buy it right? So when my date takes me home, and kisses me goodnight, if i don't hear the Philharmonic in my head i dump him! The question is why do we buy it? We buy it because whether its a myth or a manipulation, let's face it we all want to fall in love. Why? Because this experience makes us feel more completely alive, where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are swung into the heavens! It may only last a moment, an hour an afternoon but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we'll treasure for the rest of our lives. A friend said the other day, when I fall in love I hear Puccini in my head. I love that. I think its because his music clearly expresses our longing for passion in our lives and romantice love, and while we're listening to La Voila or Turandot, or reading Wuthering Heights or watching Casablanca, a little bit of that love lives in us too. So the final question is: WHy do people want to fall in love, when they can have such a short shelf life and be devastating painful? What do you think (to students)
Guy : It leads to propagation of the species.
Stacy: Psychologically we need to connect with somebody
Joe: Because we're culturally preconditioned?
Rose: Good answers but much too intellectual for me. I think its because, as some of you already may know, while it does last it feels f@ckin great!

down with love!

nice movie ;)

we slept at 4:30! tagal kasing mag-integrate! i hate cream puffs! go cheese flavored cornicks ;)

Meet the Fockers

Barbra Streisand has a new movie! Meet the Fockers is the sequel to the Meet the Parents movie with Ben Stiller and Robert Deniro. Barbra plays Mrs. Focker aka the "Mother Focker" and Mr. Focker is played by Dustin Hoffman