Taking Woodstock

I read the book Taking Woodstock about a month ago and have been anxiously awaiting the movie. The cliche about books and movies, well doesn't live in my life. I LOVE the book and I LOVE the movie. I saw it today, just me, and two others guys in a theatre at lunch time.

There's a magical quality about a movie, have you ever noticed how it's its own little world. You walk in, no matter the weather, and it's exciting. Food, games, and a room that you enter and your whole world changes for two hours. You only think of what is happening between those four walls. I think any movie is better in a theatre. That's why I could go almost every week. My life stops for two hours, I enter someone else's world and I leave slightly different when I entered.

Today was no exception. I cannot recommend this movie to anyone unless you have a love for the 60's. I began reading this book and well got totally blown away by the pure honesty of it. I could relate to Eli. Watching Demetri Martin as insecure yet mature Eli, I felt like I lived through Woodstock. I cried twice, laughed a lot, and smiled through the whole thing. I told my Mom, it was perfect for me.

I cannot tell you where the fascination for Woodstock came from for me. But I remember in high school, learning how to create power point presentations. Well I choice to do my presentation on Woodstock, lovely right!!?? And thus my fascination began....

Do you ever stop to think, was I destined for more, for something greater than this? I am drawn to Michael Lang, a guy who was so calm, he just saw the clear picture before anyone else did. I think of how much I struggle with this. Always trying to think I have an understanding when I am just walking without knowing where I'm going. He knew where he was going. What about me??

I want to get something out of everything, why God has created every little thing. In some strange way Woodstock was created for me. You may find this hard to believe, but what are you over looking, what was created so long ago but God had you in mind the whole time??