Or so Gattaca says. I watched it with a friend yesterday, again, and still find the whole movie fascinating. If you remove the science fiction from the movie, it boils down to being able to do whatever you want, if you have the will and the desire to do so. Push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations where you don’t necessarily have a guaranteed safe outcome, and I think that you will be surprised at the outcome. We are all capable of exceeding our own preconceived notions of what is possible for us. Go for it.

Some conversations yesterday day led me to think of a great Swedish band called Pain of Salvation. They are prog metal, but less metal and more prog than most. Anyway, they were relevant yesterday because the etymology of the band’s name centres around the suffering we go through in order to achieve Nirvana. We have to do things that we know hurt in order to put ourselves in a better place at the end. Anyway, I’m picking a track from them called Disco Queen, because I think that my friend will like the song a lot. The chorus is pretty fun. Are you a Disco Queen? I bet you are. As an aside, the high pitch chorus in the song is still the same two guys who front the band. A rather hilarious acoustic version of them doing it live still cracks me up.