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“Two Lovers”

 
It seems strange nowadays, but I do have difficulty even picking a film.  Maybe I just do not want to waste my time watching some garbage.  The major difficulty is, of course, in defining what garbage is.  I can only pass a judgment after having watched a movie.  Now, I try to laugh at myself [...]

Quote from “Michael Clayton”

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538/quotes
[first lines]
 
Arthur Edens: Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it’s you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I… I know it’s a long way and you’re ready to go to work… all I’m saying is wait, just wait, just-just-just… please hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it’s…
 
I’m [...]

When everything is coming your way…

 
When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
 
Why did I pick this joke today?  I feel very much like I am in the “wrong” lane driving under influence.  Driving?  Not even driving.  All my wheels were taken off and I am just sitting there and taking [...]

Psychology and Media

Making Art of Madness
 
On Nov. 15, 1934, Virginia Woolf began her rewrite of a novel eventually titled “The Years.”  “Lord! Lord!” she noted in her diary, “10 pages a day for 90 days: three months … now, damnably disagreeable, as I see it will be – compacting the vast mass – I am using my [...]

Psychology – Bipolar Disorder (Manic – Depression)

The Turbulent Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder
 
From “Psychology. An Introduction. 8th edition” by Jerome Kagan and Julius Segal  (page 488)
 
When people have recurrent episodes of depression like the one just described, the disorder is called unipolar disorder.  But there is another severe affective disorder – known as bipolar disorder, and referred to in the [...]