Our bodies tore off swimming suits // and all the old notions // the cold ocean far away

Yea wow and her new album is the bee's knees all the way. And she played basically every track from it live the other day. AND she is wearing those shoes in a picture in the liner notes. My cardiac muscle is full of joy. The album cover somehow reminds me of another album I have by a group called Camera Obscura. What do you think?:



So a quick thought about something that should not even be bothering me in the least (this is saying something as I am admittedly and quite renowned the world over for my neurosis), but consider this: At the end of Forrest Gump we see how Forrest is united with Jenny (go go gadget resiliency!), but also we find out that the night Forrest and Jenny "had it", little Forrest Jr. was conceived. However we also see that Jenny has contracted HIV/AIDS at some point and actually is fading away just as their Love was realized. Seeing the last moments of the film on teevee not long ago made me think of an exchange I had with a friend just as we had been watching that same part a couple of years ago. I had said something about the child, that he totally looked like Forrest Gump or something silly, to which my friend leveled me by saying, in a rather "as a matter of fact" tone: "Yea, it's weird that you find out that Forrest and his kid have AIDS at the end".

What!!? It was something altogether different from any difference of opinion I think I've ever had about a film/movie. Something that I had subconsciously ruled out as an impossibility mixed together with something that is so radical in thinking/belief that it could not ever be considered as completely improbable. Only more people agree! I threw the matter onto myspace; Raj voiced his dissenting opinion:

"The movie never explicitly explains that Jenny did anymore fuckin after the magical night With Forrest, but anyone using more than 1% of their brain can safely assume that she did not take a vow of abstenance after that. Lastly as for Forrest and Forrest Jr. having the HIV, get that shit out of my face. A movie about a mentally slow man succeeding in this topsy turvy world will NOT portray his demise as a result of banging without a rubber."

John Harris introduced another possible direction altogether:

"you are totally right about forest 1 not having it but i think forest 2 might have it forest 2 isn't forest 1 child jenny only told him that so that he would take care of him forest only had sex with jenny once while in the late 60s she got aids in the early eighties the kid was still young in the 90s theres no way it was he kid! that was one long ass sentence. rock on brother!"

while Nick Higgins offered:

"Forest Gump is extreemly overated - so who cares?"

Now even as someone opposed to the infected Forrest I & II theory, I must concede it's existence as a viable opinion. There is nothing in the film to prove that Jenny and Forrest "made whoopie" pre- or post- infection, so there can be no objective conclusion as I understand. My only candle I carry into the night is this: how does giving Forrest Gump and "I see dead people" jr. AIDS not completely crush the spirit of the move entire?