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This is not strictly on topic, but I remember my sister once asking me (she was in her mid-20s, me in my late teens) what I would wish for if I had 3 wishes. "Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS, global communist government without the need for violent revolution," I said. "Oh," she said, looking crestfallen and a mite wistful. "Why," said I, "what would your wishes be?"
"A chicken, a mouth organ, and a horse."
Ahem. Anyway, while just now leaping about the room singing along to REM and Husker Du in order to banish the blues from my head, it struck me that what I think I most want in the world - the one I definitely can't have, I mean - is someone to give me the budget & the cast for the Harry Potter movies, so I can direct them as I see fit. And, hell, rewrite the scripts/plots, as well. But mostly I just want to give them a better soundtrack: what were they thinking when they didn't use How Soon Is Now in Chamber of Secrets? "Harry Potter is the Heir of Slytherin!" they cry, as little, eye-linered, gothed-up Daniel Radcliffe mooches sulkily through the corridors to the refrain I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar... I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular... I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does... |
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