feels_like_fire, posts by tag: el presidente - LiveJournal
(the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs)
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But more important than any of these was the vast, accretive weight of small things, from planes which hadn't crashed to men and women who had come to the correct place at the perfect time and thus founded generations. He saw kisses exchanged in doorways and wallets returned and men who had come to a splitting of the way and chosen the right fork. He saw a thousand random meetings that weren't random, ten thousand right decisions, a hundred thousand right answers, a million acts of unacknowledged kindnesses. ...For every brick that landed on the ground instead of some little kid's head, for every tornado that missed the trailer park, for every missile that didn't fly, for every hand stayed from violence, there was the Tower.
....here's a video of our President and his First Lady dancing at one of the many (very many, according to revid) balls they attended today, while Beyonce sings a truly fabulous version of Etta James' classic "At Last."
I am officially smitten. What a gorgeous couple, and what a lovely family. I'm still sort of stunned that this has finally happened and Shrubya's presidency is well and truly over.
In other news, I finally caved and signed up for a Netflix account, due to the increase in the number of movies I've been watching lately. Thus far in my queue I have "Zodiac," "High Plains Drifter," "The Prestige," "The Fountain," "Thelma & Louise," "Mystic River," "Fargo," "Juno," "The Full Monty," "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," "The Maltese Falcon," and "The Life Aquatic." I just recently watched (and now own) "Dirty Harry."
So... hit me up with a suggestion (or two) since it's fairly easy to just chuck it in the queue if it sounds appealing. :D