Post by sWiFTy on Aug 1, 2004 9:45:10 GMT -5
Donnie Darko hasn't change my life, it's added to the confusion though!
1. I bought 'Love Will Tear us Apart' when it was originaly released on 7" single ..
2. A year or two later, I stopped over at my best school freind's house (83,84?) and watched Sam Raimi's 'The Evil Dead' for the first time (his Dad owned a video shop, and we lied to his Mom that my parents wouldn't oject to me watching it).. it became and has remained to this day my all time favourite movie (I've posted religiously on the Deadites Online forum for a few years
www.deaditesonline.net/ , where I first learned about Donnie Darko (Evil Dead is the movie that Donnie takes Gretchen to see, if you look at the referance page, Donnie is in it)....this is where it gets a bit strange... while watching Evil Dead that night, it was the first time I got...umm...'fruity' with a member of the opposite sex ... but I won't go into that here
...then the next morning my parents mysteriously picked me up early from the house to break the news that my other best freind's Dad had killed himself in a field, and 'Tim is coming to live with us for a week or two'....strange night, even stranger week...
3. I bought Tears for Fears new album, 'The Hurting'
4. Fast Forward to Christmas '99 and I met my girlfreind, she was (and still is) so cute, but I couldn't understand why sometimes she couldn't come to see me, or let me go to her place .. then she broke the news that she'd just been diagnosed with schizophrenia (the same diagnosis that's offered for Donnie in the movie).. It was a bombshell but I decided to stand by her .. she was eventually sectioned under the mental health act and I partially became sucked into her world of hallucinations of time, sight and sound. Still to this day there remains occasions that I can't explain, like her telling me to project thoughts of colours in front of my face which she would correctly guess every time, and other experiences that I'm struggling to put into words here. She fought against taking her medication untill the medication suited her and the time was right for her. Fortunately for my own sanity, my job at the time was at a hospital (the same one she was sectioned at) and my job pryor to that was at a school for children with mental health issues, so I had many resources and people that I could un-officialy go to for help as her carer. She's now taking Olanzapine and living a normal life.
So, when we first watched Donnie Darko together, for all the reasons above combined, it felt like it had been made just for us, and we're still huge fans now ..
1. I bought 'Love Will Tear us Apart' when it was originaly released on 7" single ..
2. A year or two later, I stopped over at my best school freind's house (83,84?) and watched Sam Raimi's 'The Evil Dead' for the first time (his Dad owned a video shop, and we lied to his Mom that my parents wouldn't oject to me watching it).. it became and has remained to this day my all time favourite movie (I've posted religiously on the Deadites Online forum for a few years
www.deaditesonline.net/ , where I first learned about Donnie Darko (Evil Dead is the movie that Donnie takes Gretchen to see, if you look at the referance page, Donnie is in it)....this is where it gets a bit strange... while watching Evil Dead that night, it was the first time I got...umm...'fruity' with a member of the opposite sex ... but I won't go into that here
...then the next morning my parents mysteriously picked me up early from the house to break the news that my other best freind's Dad had killed himself in a field, and 'Tim is coming to live with us for a week or two'....strange night, even stranger week...3. I bought Tears for Fears new album, 'The Hurting'
4. Fast Forward to Christmas '99 and I met my girlfreind, she was (and still is) so cute, but I couldn't understand why sometimes she couldn't come to see me, or let me go to her place .. then she broke the news that she'd just been diagnosed with schizophrenia (the same diagnosis that's offered for Donnie in the movie).. It was a bombshell but I decided to stand by her .. she was eventually sectioned under the mental health act and I partially became sucked into her world of hallucinations of time, sight and sound. Still to this day there remains occasions that I can't explain, like her telling me to project thoughts of colours in front of my face which she would correctly guess every time, and other experiences that I'm struggling to put into words here. She fought against taking her medication untill the medication suited her and the time was right for her. Fortunately for my own sanity, my job at the time was at a hospital (the same one she was sectioned at) and my job pryor to that was at a school for children with mental health issues, so I had many resources and people that I could un-officialy go to for help as her carer. She's now taking Olanzapine and living a normal life.
So, when we first watched Donnie Darko together, for all the reasons above combined, it felt like it had been made just for us, and we're still huge fans now ..
