The United States of Leland

It leaves me feeling pretty much nothing at all. But not in n hollow kind of way. More like, a swirl. A slow swirl of ambience, like floating up there somewhere, a million years away in outer space. Like seeing through a very pretty see-through veil. Like those feelings you get after you watch American Beauty. Maybe it’s the Kevin Spacey factor?

Two things for sure tho:

1. Now that I've seen Ryan Gosling in dark hair, there is zero percent of chance left for me to move on from him.

2. The movie has a soundtrack that's beautifully painful (sounds like my sort of music). Here's my favorite:

Don't Go Racing by Jeremy Enigk

"Don’t go racing when you’re on your own

Your feet down and raining

You see that you have flown

Now the years seem like memories, broken dreams

How can I turn back around?

Slip back and join in the crowd

If I could love you

Don’t go racing with the world in your head

It’s no generation

Now let the fear be memories, broken dreams

How can you turn back around?

Slip back and join in the crowd

Forces keep pushing me down

Yet I would love you

If you could love everyone of us

If I could love you."

you're not obliged to swallow anything that you despise

Go without,
'Til the need seeps in,
You're low anymore,
Collect your novel petals for the stem,

And glow,glow,
Melt and flow,
Eviscerate your fragile frame,
And spill it out in the ragged floor,
A thousand different versions of yourself,

And if the old guard still offend,
They got nothing left on which you depend,
So enlist every ounce,
Of your bright blood,
And off with their heads,
Jump from the hook,

You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise.

See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life,
And they got no right,
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right,

Just put yourself in my new shoes,
And see that I do what I do,
Because the old guard still offend,
We got nothing left on which we depend,
So we waste every ounce,
Of your bright blood,
And off with their heads,
Jump from the hook,

And you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise.

i heart The Shins. and this is one the best songs ever.     correcto mundo? :)