six thinking hats and an Elephant

rather dizzy for the strangest of reasons but i'm not complaining

lots of friends were here. and there
watched the 40year-old virgin and pippin and elephant
and in the tradition of the four word film review, i think:

virgin was "unexpectedly funny and sweet"
pippin was "fosse plus lead player"
elephant was "beautiful yet deeply disturbing"

that last one sure slapped me in the face. i'm pretty sure gus van sant gets it all the time, but he sure is good. thanks maki, my fine fine arts friend for sharing this one.

thoughts of that old tale about blind men and an elephant went into my mind after hearing the title. seeing how the film looked at each character's life separately to tell one whole sortof backed up those thoughts. reading van sant's ideas for the film proved he didn't think differently.

this whole notion of nothingness that i believe in popped out every now and then throughout the film and its nice to see how the boxes we call norms were being distorted.

this whole distorting of norms is prevalent too in edward de bono's super cool concept called the six thinking hats. maybe you have read about it already, if you haven't you should.

it's a whole new way of thinking, really. a whole new way of making decisions which you probably would have thought of already but you have to give de bono credit because he made it super simple. look it up. thanks louie for letting me read the book. irresponsibly read a few chapters while this whole planning session for strains was going on yesterday. but i wasn't that bad.

we weren't that bad earlier too while being the OD consultants we aim to be during this engagement meeting with acomm, a cool ateneo org on its way to accreditation run by really cool people. strains loves you too

dizzy. beautiful. not bad.

lisnin to beethoven's fur elise, elephant's theme song
sortof readin elephant reviews and edward de bono's toothbrush idea
feelin kinda good despite the slightly sick super sleepy feeling