*Guitar Twang* Dre-ea-ea-ea-eam, Dream Dream Dre-eam...

“Riding in Cars with Boys” made itself into a part of the week the other night, and so now as always in the aftermath, I have The Everly Brother’s “All I have to do is Dream” sailing around my head in all its 60s, innocent, lilting goodness.

On one hand, it is giving “Crying in the Rain” a bit of a rest, but on the other, it reinforces the fact that there seems to be a special segment of my brain permanently set aside for Everly Brother’s songs for whatever reason.

Anyways, in the movie was a quote that went something along the lines “life is made up of four or five significant days that shape the rest of your life” (that’s not verbatim but meh). However I disagree.

Going back about a week or whatnot, the channel 10 broadcasting executives, or whoever it is who makes these decisions decide to screen something else in the place of “Riding in Cars with Boys”. “The Shawshank Redemption”, a Michael Palin documentary….the “My Little Pony” movie. Whatever.

This results in:
a) An exodus away from screens Australia-wide?
b) Migration to another channel?
c) “My Little Pony” quotes for the next week and a half?

Whatever the options, if we view the past week alongside this alternate past week, they’ll be different. On the first level, people who had originally watched the movie would have spent their evening doing something else – watching another movie (creative), updating their stamp album…writing Christmas thank you letters. This would ultimately impact upon the rest of the week, whether that be conversations about a movie that otherwise wouldn’t have been screened, additional time to do other things, as schedule’s would have been reshuffled…and “All I have to do is Dream” (well probably) wouldn’t be stuck in my head.

Maybe it could even affect what you dream about, which in turn affects the mood you wake up in (though it’s difficult to put your finger on what kind of mindset dreaming about school croquet camp puts you in…).

Then on the second level, each of these small changes bring about further small changes, which in turn create even more small changes…causing the dominoes in your affect to fall in an entirely different direction than they otherwise would have.

…go too deeply into this and one could end up getting psychotic about how what they choose to put on their toast will end up affecting what career they follow.

But now they're axing the OC. Think how that'll wreak havoc upon the future of mankind. No really.

Anyways…Happy New Year!!!