Good Will Hunting and Me

So if you know me well you know I like to go out and dance at after hours clubs and absolutely worship dance music. I also get accused (jokingly mostly) of being gay quite often because, well, it's hard to explain why you are 30 year old man and go out dancing at mixed dance clubs like RISE in Boston at 3AM by yourself.

I often think of this quote when people give me shit about it. When I was living in Boston at first I didn't know where "the paradise" or "the dise" was. I saw this little bar across from street and up the road from the main MIT building entrance at the corner of Mass Ave and Albany and assumed maybe that was the paradise I had always heard of. It wasn't until I went to some shows at the actual Paradise music venue that I finally knew the Paradise Cafe wasn't "the dise". I didn't realize the nature of the place or that this was the place mentioned Affleck&Damon's "Good Will Hunting". Apparently it's least attractive aspects are that it has strippers and porn playing on Projectors. Yah, it's a gay bar I guess. The whole context of the quote I knew so well made alot more sense.

source http://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/BenandMatt/goodwillhunting.txt

PSYCHOLOGIST
Like what, Will?

WILL
I go places, I interact.

PSYCHOLOGIST
What places?

WILL
Certain, clubs.
(beat)
Like, Paradise. It's not bad.

Will gives the Psychologist a furtive look.

WILL (cont'd)
It's just that feeling when you can
take your shirt off and really dance.
(beat)
When the music owns you. Do you
understand?

PSYCHOLOGIST
I might understand that.

WILL
Do you find it hard to hide the fact
that you're gay?

PSYCHOLOGIST
What?

hilarious.

And I also leave you with this. A hilarious military Blog written by an agnostic Unitarian Universalist soldier who spent time in Afghanistan.

http://traversa.typepad.com/afghanistan_without_a_clu/