You know, I’m a true believe in the power of positive thinking.
Why be negative, right? Doesn’t it take way more facial muscles to frown than to smile? Or something like that. Why waste the energy? It also helps that I am a stubborn Taurus. And I’m here to tell ya – nothing’s gonna take me down. Not without a fight anyway. So in these trying times, I’ve come up with a little system to maintain the flow, the positive forward momentum if you will. A lot of it involves escapism. Take last weekend for example. I actually sat down and watched back to back to back shows of Monster Jam. Have you people seen this ever? You know the one; fiberglass shells of vehicles jacked up on these huge truck tires. OH MY GOD, it was glorious! I mean, I just couldn’t get over it. It was so good, in the midst of it all my friend came over and before long, I got her hooked too.
The whole scene was so surreal. These little truck shells (painted up to the hilt of course) on these big tires, were careening up, over and through cartoonishly painted cars, trucks, buses, even an RV for pete’s sake. This dude took out the RV with his Monster Truck, flipped over, blew a tire and jumped out of his (slightly afire) mad ride to a standing ovation. I’ve never seen anything like it! I must watch more.
The humongous tires skewer the perspective to such a degree, it feels like you are watching these teeny tiny characters in a teeny tiny land basically drive over dirt hills and destroy stuff. It is so far removed from my style I’m not even sure how I landed on this channel. Except that I do. I was looking to escape, to check out from reality and give myself a much-needed break from the action. And golly, did this do the job! It was so crazy, so ludicrous, it couldn’t possibly be real. It was like I stepped into this fantasyland of fantastical fodder, which instantly replaced the real world worries weighing down my mind. It could not have been more perfect for my Sunday Escapism Strategy.
So perfect that…hmmm…does anyone know when Monster Jam is coming to Philips Arena?
-Carla