One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

I told David earlier tonight that with what little free time I have left I watch movies, because they keep me from wanting to seek out a screaming death in fire. Then I watched Stranger Than Fiction, which is without question my new favorite movie to watch when life pisses me the fuck off. (Which is basically all the time.) It’s a feel-good movie that doesn’t feel like a feel-good movie.

There’s one quote I won’t share due to the fact that it’s a major spoiler, but basically the end of the movie is one really long awesome quote. Here’s the best part, which doesn’t really spoil anything (I hope:)

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose-plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and much nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange. But I also know that it just so happens to be true. –Helen Eiffel, Stranger than Fiction

Run, don’t walk, to see this wonderful movie.