Mood:
amorousThe title says it all. It has happened, and I didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did. I may be falling out of love with a certain quarterback, maybe not though. I’m probably going to see the Steelers in August again, and we’ll have to see what comes of that, but this isn’t good. First of all, Ben is a lying bastard, because he totally has a girlfriend. The scary thing is, I don’t really care. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a Steelers’ fan, and love my Black & Gold (not the Saints, their stupid, BANDWAGON fans are getting on my nerves), but I’m not getting the heart beats faster thing about Ben anymore like I used to. Ironically, it comes when I finally find a website that has like a thousand photos of him, and I might not have a need for it anymore. Another strange thing is that this is what I wanted; I’ve just realized that today is the one-year anniversary of the incident that happened last year. I said that I didn’t want to hear from him at all until training camp. The old “no news is good news” cliche is what I was going on. Only now, I’ve found something (someone) else to fill the void. And it’s getting bad, real bad.
I now have to tell what, or should I say, who happened. It all starts on the day that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End came out in theaters. Me, being obsessed and a little miffed that I missed Spider-Man 3’s initial release, I ran out to see it that day. I caught like the 12:30 showing. Mini review: It was better than the second one, but nothing tops the first. I didn’t like the way they treated the whole Tia Dalma/Calypso release, and they scene with Jack Sparrow in Davy Jones’ locker with all his hallucinations ran WAY too long. Then there were the deaths, OMG, there were so many and a few of them were just too sad for words. The three saddest, in order of increasing sadness, were the boy at the beginning (the East India Company were hanging all the people they thought were pirates, or were being sympathetic towards pirates, or broke any of the laws and freedoms they had taken away for the time being such as freedom to assembly, stuff like that) who I thought was going to escape and he started singing the beautiful, yet haunting song that was like a call to arms for all pirates. The next terrible death was Gov. Swann, Elizabeth’s father. It was so sad, the EIC just killed him quietly because he asked too many questions and they felt he was no longer valuable to them. When Elizabeth was escaping from Davy Jones’ locker, she saw her father in a little rowboat and it meant that he was dead, and it was just a gut-wrenching scene to watch. But, the absolute worst death was that of Admiral James Norrington. Dude, you have no idea how much it pissed me off. Especially since he died saving Elizabeth, and “Bootstrap” Bill harpoons him. It was just messed up. Elizabeth thought that since he’d given his loyalties to the EIC, he had something to do with her father’s death, but he had no idea. Norrington did say he had nothing to do with her father's death, but it does not absolve him of his other sins. Then when he was breaking her and the Chinese pirates out of the brig, Elizabeth tries to get Norrington to come with them. He says he will, but she knows he’s lying, and then he says one of the sweetest lines to her, “Our fates were always intertwined, Elizabeth, but never joined.” Then, when she’s leaving the ship, a deranged Bootstrap discovers they’re escaping. To save Elizabeth, because she started to climb back when she sees they’ve been found out, Norrington cuts her escape line so she can’t come back to him. Davy Jones saw that the Admiral was dying, then asks if he fears death. Norrington defiantly stabs him with his sword, and Jones says “I’ll take that as a no. Nice sword.” Then James Norrington dies, and I was really sad. He died at the moment of his redemption, and his was the only really interesting character that just didn’t get enough screen time. And ever since seeing the third one, I’ve done little but watch the first two and I really noticed how much Norrington loved Elizabeth. In the first one he lets her go to be with Will, then in the second one when they meet back up, when their on the island that Davy Jones kept the chest, when Will shows back up, you can totally see the hurt and disappointment on Norrington’s face.
If you haven’t gotten it yet, I believe I now fancy the man who portrays James Norrington in all these movies, one Mr. Jack Davenport. It is getting so bad, when I watch the first two Pirates movies, I only watch his parts or I’ll put the first one in and listen to the audio commentary with him and Keira Knightley, which I watched ages ago and was surprised at how funny both of them were.
I feel a bit guilty, I’ll get over it though, I always do. It’s just that this time, going on four years, I thought it would last a bit longer. Don’t be shocked if Ben gets engaged or something after this upcoming season.
Nothing lasts forever, even cold, November rain.
Son of a bitch, this is that "Superman" photo I had been trying to upload FOREVER! Is this thing trying to tell me that ALL I had to do was rename it? Whatever.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
The messy hair is so cute.
I'm phasing.