No. Not my bucket list. I'm not there yet. Not for decades.
The movie.
Did you know Hollywood sometimes misleads you in movie trailers and descriptions? It's true!
In this case, they make The Bucket List seem to be a wacky buddy comedy about two older gentlemen doing all the cool things they ever wanted to do in their declining years. When it really is a melodrama about two terminal cancer patients and their final struggle to make sense of life as it slips away.
The Bucket List features all the highlights of chemotherapy: the diarrhea and vomiting, hair loss, bleeding catheters, and your perpetual partner, the IV pump, wheeled around with you wherever you go. It aims for high-minded "make life count" but misses completely and hits "you're really screwed unless you're a billionaire with the cash to make your dreams come true" - and buy redemption.
I only bring this up because when you're in treatment they tell you to keep your spirits up, laugh and watch funny movies.
I watched The Bucket List.
Ooops. My mistake.
2 comments:
Nice DW! When are you going to start your podcast?
TS
Yo Dave...
just so you know, we're all thinking of you. Talk of your condition surfaced in December on a shoot, and the shoot, well, came to a stop briefly as we all went HOLY SHIT! Not Dave Winston.
Yes, I just got turned on to your blog, you are NOT writing alone... got the message about the big do in March...
and well, good luck...happy to see the Dave Winston humor is back, looking at the blog, I think you can give Dave Barry a run for his money. :- )
Good luck and again, everyone here at Out of the Blue gives a big old HOWDY and get well soon!! Ron C.
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