May 15, 2011

On this date three years ago, I visited the bar at which IBEaters Carrie and Elinor were employed. The televisions in the bar are often tuned to movies. With no volume. Like as in we can’t hear their sound, not that the movies don’t take up physical room. Well, that either. Beside the point.

Anyway, the movie that was silently playing on the screen that night was “Hollow Man.” With no sound. You see? “Hollow Man” is about an invisible person*. So what ended up on the screens was a lot of panning shots of empty rooms, where important things were happening. Important things that we could neither see nor hear.

And it was at that point that I reached enlightenment.

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*It’s also, for the record, HORRIBLE.