Do the Right Thing

[fflo]

No, not the movie.

I was about to post that it's harder to know what's the right thing to do than the wrong, but that's crap. But maybe it's easier to know when you've done the wrong one, vs. the right?

I dunno, cuz I dunno.

Another in the Whatever!™ series here at 'Ff'lo.

Comments

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

[fflo.livejournal.com]

you don't say so!

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

how come susanstinson's words ain't showin? is that some perk you payin' users get?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

they're not showing for me, either

maybe she's making a "no comment" comment...

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

doing (and reflecting upon) doing the wrong thing often makes one feel worse, but doing the right thing doesn't necessarily make one feel better...especially if when reflecting upon it, you forget about the real reason that it was the right choice in the first place and you struggle to figure out how it benefitted you, when sometimes it doesn't.

BTW...Icon love..is that from I <3 Huckabees? I forget which movie, but that was full of awesome.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh, you're a cutie in that icon, D! how do we ladies keep our hands off you?

this here icon is my huckabees one. the icon at the top's from Me and You and Everyone We Know---which was totally awesomeful. Ooh, and finding the link has just led me to Miranda July's blog---maybe I can RSSify that for livejournal, if it ain't already.

as far as the rights & wrongs, i've been through the sentiment of your sentence today, for sure. in the end, glad glad. if it is indeed resolved, the goodness v. badness. oh, one's badness! one (like the Queen of England, referring to one's self that way) can only one-der!

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

oh yeah....Me and You and Everyone We Know....man....all the indie movies I've watched in the last two years are blending together into one massive depressed orgy. :-P

And you've got me cackling loudly enough I'm sure the neighbors can hear....one-der! LOLS

[fflo.livejournal.com]

"LOLS" = "Laughing Out Loud, Suck-ah!"?

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

haha....well...it's kinda part of the whole "LaughS Out Loud" but it comes out as LOLS which is a little more understandable than LSOL which might have a more negative connotation. ;-)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

one massive depressed orgy

ho! c'mon, you aren't totally lifted up by the likes of those two films? dang if they didn't transport me to Happy Aestheticland...

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

well....those two could be uplifting.....but to add into that mix the likes of Love Liza and others on that plane, there's more depression that uplifting going on...Not that I don't LOOOOOVE me my indie films...believe me, I do.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

I found "You and Me and Everyone We Know" to be uplifting as well.
Interesting that John Hawkes, the leading man in that flick, is also in Deadwood. http://sprig5.livejournal.com/50968.html (For me, everything goes back to Deadwood.

I loved the awkward moments in "You and Me...."

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

yet another deadwood fan....I really must start watching this show....

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

it's my fave. i only own about 8 DVDs, and many of those are yoga DVDs. but i bought DW season 2. am trying to get the other seasons by various means as well.

[paperkingdoms]

Perhaps it's an issue of multiplicity -- there are often more wrong options than right ones. At least in "do the right thing" situations. I like to think there are more good/right paths through life than wrong ones.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

And here's a way to complicate the whole thing further, this quote from Doc Cochran in Deadwood:

"I see as much misery outta them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm."

With this quote, the doctor is referring to the Seth Bullock, former sheriff in Montana, and newly arrived in Deadwood (Dakota). At this point in the story, Seth always wants to do the right thing, no matter what structures it may upset.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

I think that's what Doc's referring to. Don't remember exactly. This is from episode 2 of season 1.
http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/episode/season1/episode02.shtml

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

bullock was actually a marshall in montana, as was wild bill hickock. (many of the deadwood characters were real people, although creator david milch didn't stick 100% to the truth in telling the stories. he didn't necessarily lie in a reductive or whitewashing way, for the most part.)