Last night some of us went down to the local bar to have drinks for Hip E.’s birthday. Then we came home and tried to watch Grigori Kozintsev’s three-plus hour version of King Lear. Pretty cool from what I saw. A rather bleak take on the play, and the subtitles were in Shakespeare, which was cool. Anyway, I fell asleep in Johnny D’s bed about 40 minutes in. I slept soundly (even with Johnny D’s penis up my butt!) for the rest of the movie and then woke up right at the end when the credits began to roll.
It’s amazing how this happens. May dad has slept through the second half of every movie he’s watched since 1996 and he always, always wakes up right at the end (and usually mumbles something about it being good before he stumbles off to bed). I don’t think this occurs because of the jarring nature of the music at the end or anything. I really think that the brain slips into a half-sleep mode, where it keeps track of the sounds and is able to detect some change in sound (or maybe image) that occurs at the end of the movie.
As a general matter, I love the brain. I love how you use your brain to try to figure out how your brain works. And how our brain can’t quite figure out how it works. Also, I enjoy telling people how I think that there is no “soul” and that all of our emotions and personality comes from our brain. We used to have a roommate that was really shocked by my position in this regard. Some people are stupid.
-Shark
3 responses so far ↓
Turd Ferguson // Mar 20, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I like how your brain tells you to say, when you need to think of an excuse, “I was at the pornography store. I was buying pornography.”
Hip E. // Mar 22, 2008 at 10:02 am
“Money can be exchanged for good and services.”
condon // Mar 24, 2008 at 11:37 am
Also, I enjoy telling people how I think that there is no “soul” and that all of our emotions and personality comes from our brain.”
Shark try On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins , it has a whole chaper on that. yo keeley!
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