Foggy Morning/Straight Outta Compton

There's nothing quite like a frigid morning traffic light with fog rising from every car's tailpipe into the new morning's air.

Poetic, right?

That was a morning not long ago.

I almost didn't pay attention because of my typical internal morning brain fog. 

I had decided to forego scraping off my windshield that morning and often the cold, bright sunlight caught the crystals on my windshield, blinding me and making me nervous about living on the edge of safety. 

I swear everyone else on the road that day parks in a garage. There was no evidence frost on any other car I passed. 

I felt very conspicuous. 

Anyhow, beautiful, ephemeral fog.

I'm pretty sure ephemeral means "doesn't last."

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Nothing gold can stay.

Is that by Robert Frost? I could look it up.

I watched "Straight Outta Compton" last night with my friends.  I'm going to try to connect it to the fog in a few ways. 1)There was lots of smoking which looked like fog.  2)There were lots of shots of cars and several incidents of dangerous driving.  3)Friendships, lives, poverty, and riches came and went like fog.

My friend said the movie has a low "rewatchability" factor and I agree.  But I wanted to watch it in order to understand how, well, how everything.

The movie gave me pathos for the characters (which is what I was hoping for) and an image to pull to my mind if anyone starts talking about EZE or Tupac or Snoop or Ice Cube.  I have to trust that the movie stuck to history, but if I do then I can hold a conversation with someone about why Dr. Dre started "Aftermath" or why Ice Cube went solo.

How cool is that?

I need to watch more movies about real stuff.

I had wanted to watch the movie with my dad.  I had thought it might be a cool bonding experience since sometimes the two of us bond over watching something on the history channel for much longer than we expected.

Boy am I glad I didn't! I'm sure the party scenes are all in the name of historical accuracy, but these parties seem to be the kind where only the pretty girls are allowed in and they check most of their clothes at the door. And I mean most of them.

Just be aware of that.

Good movie.  Straight Outta Compton.