Ironic...

I haven't been active in this in a year, and what brings me back? Just what I said would not, a movie review...

Crazy Heart isn't the best movie I have seen, nor is it a great movie, but it is very good. And since my last post was about The Wrestler I feel compelled to say why it has brought me back to blog.

Both films have been written for my generation. As we age, as we see our gifts diminishing, our bodies begin to betray us, our lives slide inexorably into middle and old age, these fims speak to us. Somewhere, long ago, I read that at the end of life, we seek not wealth or fame, but redemption. For many people, that will mean some sort of deal making with god as they lay dying. For others, it is the Bad Blake version of trying to set things right, even if he has failed his own family, in The Wrestler, it was Randy Robinson redeeming himself through his own self-destruction.

So what?

I sit here today, a 53 yr old man with heart disease. Looking for ways to make my life mean something before the inevitable happens.

I am not near death. I am just undeniably mortal.