Fading smiles

One of the things that I noticed on the tube today was this beautiful ... I'm talking just a damn pretty woman. Not hot or lust-inspiring, but the kind that makes you think - goddamn, she's beautiful. Like a holy image ... okay, a bit of an exaggeration and digression from the topic at hand too.

Anyways - there's this beautiful woman. Sitting prim and pretty, but looking fairly down - like most folks on the tube, I guess (barring the teenagers - as loud and annoying as they are, I have to give them that - most of the time, they're really fucking happy). But suddenly she gets this phone call - a short one, no more than ten seconds and she smiles once in the call and that lasts till the end of the call and for a short while after - say, another ten seconds. Then it fades away as her face settles into the earlier countenance. She gets another phone call after a while, this one makes her laugh (and, by God, she looked amazing), and this smile lasts on her face for a solid minute.

Yes, it may seem like I'm some sick voyeur, but it's something that I have never watched/studied before and I wonder what other people think in this regard. Cause in movies and tv, for example, you see people smile, laugh and such, but this slow fade of smiles ... never happens - perhaps because there isn't the time to develop those moments, yet it's still something of note.

Anyways, back to the Nintendo DS ... struck me that the system has amazing potential - not as a gimmicky device, but a place to craft a whole new medium of gaming. Imagine comic book style cutscenes taking advantage of two screens. I mean ... the gaming aspects are what Nintendo's selling, but I think it could go much farther - not just "touching is good," but a new gaming revolution. Fuck old style gaming. Here, you have a far greater level of interactivity available to the gamer. Tell two stories at once. Have different cinematic angles on each screen. Really push the idea into the next millenium type thing.

I had an idea for a webcomic thing. Hopefully in the coming weeks, I'll get around to actually making it and start posting it too. I'm looking forward to that - been meaning to do that for a while now.

Had a dream last night - the kind that starts off real good, but ends kind of hopelessly. Saw this girl I know and am at odds with - got to actually enjoy some time with her - idyllic moments that would be cherished forever if they were real, kind of thing. And then she left with her boyfriend, not me - to some distant part of the planet ... Finland, I think - some sort of teaching thing - we were all being sent to different places. I found out at the last minute that I was to go to Toronto, but I had only an hour till the flight took off and all my stuff wasn't even packed and I was rushing to get stuff ready, fully aware that there was no way in hell I would have even made it to the airport if I had already had stuff packed anyway. There was this great and overwhelming sense of doom and hopelessness ... I'd lost a love and all hope for the future ... something like that, I suppose.

Till another day - when the toad croaks the Greek National Anthem.