When the Homily is about Immunology

Speaking of Wasting Time

The other night, in a fit of potentially sinful boredom (I suppose there is ALWAYS something better I COULD be doing...even now) I jumped back and forth between Red Green reruns and some TV special about the 100 greatest movies lines. Hopefully I have not, in admitting this, revealed to much of my true nature...but if you don't "bust a gut" laughing at "Handyman's corner" then you likely will never be able to have much fun hanging out with me. Hmmm...tangent.

Anyway...what amazed me about the 100 best movie lines show was not which line came in first or second or even 100th, but rather how many of them I absolutely KNEW, but had no idea where they'd originated - in fact I didn't even know they were from a movie and yet I was able to say the line precisely as the actor or actress of the film had delivered it!

Wow...movies have really integrated themselves into our lives, haven't they? For good or ill, they are the fireside stories, myths, and legends of our day. That we wander about quoting them without even knowing it, gives me pause to wonder to what extent we have changed our thinking via their influence...perhaps even without knowing it? Yes, the age old question: does art influence culture or does culture influence art? Usually I'd say that both are true...but when the question was originally posed, was media nearly as potent or engrossing as it is today? And yet, there I was consuming it...well c'mon man! It was Red Green for all love!