So, a couple thoughts coming out oif this long weekend and into the backstretch before opening (Woohoo!):

This weekend, I watched "Grizzly Man", and my God, did that film stick with me. Terrifying, beautiful, intriguing, heartbreaking. Upon reflection in the last couple days, I was surprised at how much I was connecting the film to KCCFFF, especially in the connection between Heidi and Tim Treadwell, the subject of 'Grizzly Man'. One of the things they poured into in the film (and often criticized him for - rightfully so, in my opinion) was the fact that Treadwell knew what he was getting into and that his crime was in his delusion (or arrogance, depending on how you look at it) that he could bridge that gap between man and animal. Repeatedly, they speak of his desire to become a bear. It's strange, too, because as they go deeper into the film and his psychological breakdown, you certainly see that Treadwell DOES live amongst these bears as a sort of retreat from mankind. And you can almost see why he does. Or why anyone would be tempted top do so. Things are deceptively simpler with the bears. There is a romanticized nobility and honor he puts on the existence between him and the bears, and I think most of this is completely fabricated in his mind. I think it is very easy to project upon animals - whether it be a bear for Treadwell or a cat for Heidi - but it is such a dangerous temptation to fall into that deep and deluded a belief that you really could BOND with the animal. Or THINK like them. Or really, truly UNDERSTAND them. There is a line that exists between human and animals. I thought this was best summarized by the Native American museum curator in Grizzzly Man, who looked at Treadwell's actions in the film as violating something sacred - a contract between man and beast - that has existed for thousands of years. And while cats certainly ARE very diffferent - being domesticated animals, after all - the film DID present me with a new way to look at King. Though I have beeen approaching the King very much from his personalized or humanized traits, as Aaron wrote them, watching this film gave me a whole new view of the character, just from looking at him as an animal. The anger and betrayal he feels towards Heidi attempting to cross that line between man and animal. Interesting and fun stuff. Love, love, love digging into the layers! They never seem to end, Aaron!

ALSO, something I found in random research this weekend was that Calico Cats are almost NEVER male! It's like a freak of nature when they are - basically a male with two 'X' chromosomes. The possibility that this was simply random occcurence that you decided to make him a King, Aaron, was pretty quickly dispatched, since the aliteration would have remained with a Queen. So, any thoughts you'd like to share as to why the Calico's a 'King'.

Or is it just random, after all? ;p

See ya tonight, y'all!