Reading Notes - Movie Time

I would like to take this opportunity to begin talking about the movie.

First off, Scarlett Johansson = MEGA HOTTIE. Just don't let my girlfriend know that.

But seriously, this movie has a lot of interesting factors. In the debate of place versus non-place, the movie raises some cool scenes. Is a bar a non-place? To some people it is, while for some it isn't. Just passing through, havin a beer. Seems inconsequential to me. Would this be a non-place to this person? I guess so. But of the person who frequents the bar, goes out with his buddies every friday night, plays poor, camaraderie abounds? Sure seems like a place to me.

I still am pondering the whole karaoke and tokyo rush scene. IT all seems a little out there for me. I understand it was supposed to raise the relationship of murray and Johansson, but other than that, it really didn't raise that much in the theory of place for me.

I plan on expounding after movie has finished. Until then, adieu.

Reading Notes - The Non-Place

My local non-place is the West Transfer Point.

Let me explain myself. I never ride the bus. I have a car here in Madison, so I just drive everywhere. Since I work at Weather Central, which is located on the east side of the WKOW building on the Southwest Side, I pass the West Transfer Point every time I work. So, last night, I decided to take time and head over there. Now, since I don't ride the bus, I have what you may call a bus stigma. In my opinion, I would always think that you'd find rather, how you say, "uncouth" people at the bus stop. But, I forage ahead nonetheless.

I flet weird sitting there. Who sits at a bus stop? People were just walking through, standing and waiting for their next bus, or running right up to the one that had already arrived. This is the difference between place and non-place. When you stay at a location and become connected with it, it becomes a place. The only people that stay at bus stations are vagrants. I am no vagrant, let me tell you.

So, I continued onward, watching people come and go. There really was no talking, just kinda like how you would stand in an elevator looking straight forward. This is the epitome of the non-place. There's just no connection to it!

After a while, I got bored and just had to leave. I get creeped out by people being in close proximity to me too, so I was a bit uncomfortable as it was pretty busy at that hour. So, there's my non-place. With no connection to the location, anything can be a non-place, perhaps. But, any location can be a place. It truly is a grey area.