Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Have you ever seen Vanilla Sky?

Yesterday was my Executive Health Exam, the annual uber-physical provided free of charge to employees of the firm. The EHE building is on prime real estate, sandwiched between the NBC News studio and Nintendo World at 10 Rockefeller Plaza. I walked into the pretty lobby and checked in at the security desk. I told the guard/receptionist (who looked strangely like Idi Amin) that I was going to EHE on the 4th floor and presented my ID. A few seconds later, Amin presented me with this:

"Ok," I thought "this is really creepy." If you haven't seen Vanilla Sky, you have no idea why. Or, you have seen Vanilla Sky, but it was only mediocre, so you don't remember it all that well. I'll explain... Vanilla Sky stars Tom "Nut Job" Cruise. For the first 90 minutes, a lot of crazy, yet unexplained things happen. For the purpose of this story, you don't need to worry about what those things are. Anyway, after the 90 minutes of crazy, Tom ends up at the Life Extension Institute where he learns that he's dead and he's been suspended in a state of lucid dreaming. He had signed a contract with LEI to erase the memory of his death and to keep him in this perpetual state of false life. Honestly, I don't remember the movie all that well myself, but I'm pretty sure he jumps off a building or something at that point. The bottom line is that it's not good to end up at the Life Extension Institute because it means that life isn't real and in about 5 years, you're going to reveal that you're a wacked-out Scientologist and rally against Psychiatry.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So did you have the urge to jump off a building, or did you just turn your head and cough?!