The Wonders of Roving the Internet

How can I sleep when I am so excited about the world around me?
The internet allows me that opportunity…perhaps, to some extent, it always has.  The internet allows me to access artifacts being created or that have been created in the world that are so rare and beautiful.  I cherish them like close friends.  Songs, stories, films, and paintings all embrace us in the same way; finding a beautiful or inspiring song or “meeting” a character in a book is like finding a soul mate or having a memorable conversation with a complete stranger.  The internet expands the options for what an individual would typically and feasibly be exposed to in a regular “real life” environment.  I love it.  I have found myself…in art…mostly via the internet.
Tonight I watched a trailer for the Sigor Ros film Hiem, which means “home” in Icelandic.  Wow.  Perhaps we find now what our ancestors could only come by in books, but the fact that we can sit still in one place and mentally travel in the externalized cultural brain (the internet) is…magnificent, to say the very least.  This video trailer showed images of Iceland paired with perfect “travel through the attic” memory-conjuring piano music.  I really want to travel to Iceland.  Seriously, wow.  That was the first “wow” of the evening.  I’m thinking about buying the DVD, but…I’m not sure.  I have mixed feelings about Sigor Ros’ music.  On one hand, I think it’s beautiful, ethereal, and great…on the other hand, something about it bores me and almost bothers me.  I should probably give them more of a chance.
Then I found some other really strange and interesting artists, the most memorable (that I can recall offhand) being Amiiana.
Eventually, I found the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.  OSDFJAKDAJSDKLASJLK!KJKLJALKJSD!!!!!!  Yeah, that really says it best.  WOW.  I am rendered agape.  What can I even say?  The trailer blew my mind, and then I watched an excerpt on youtube from what I think is the beginning of the movie.  It’s based on a true story??!!!!  god, I love neuroscience…tales of neurological conditions which cause individuals to become heroes of their own brains.  So, I looked up information about Jean-Dominique Bauby on wikipedia and then…I found that the movie was based on his book, which he communicated via eye-blinks.  jalkjsfkjasdjaksdlfjsd!  I faint in my own awe.  I’ve begun reading the book on amazon, and I intend to buy it soon.
Another film that I am really looking forward to is Into the Wild.  The story looks incredible.  I love the basic philosophy of the lead character, and it’s another book I would love to read.  The only aspect of the film that worries me is based upon an interview that I saw with the lead character; I was not at all impressed with the actor in real life.  Something about his style of communication was very offsetting for me…he speaks so slowly, vaguely, and indecisively.  I can’t officially establish my point about the latter two…but he definitely speaks in an annoyingly slow-paced manner.
Other films I am looking forward to are The Kite Runner, which releases on March 25, and August Rush, which releases on March 11 (the trailers I saw on TV for this film, in my opinion, completely trivialized the story).
I should probably go to bed.