The scenes in Contact from when Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) first hears the signal through to their realisation that they have found what they have been looking for. Every time I see the scene. Even if I think about the scene.
I took a picture of a niece of mine in my office room. When I looked at the picture later, after I developed the film, there was this apparition. A greyish out of focus some sort of being, long and slender, and it looked as if it had a head and a body with multiple limbs and slithery legs; I couldn’t figure out what the hell it was at all. Goosebumps popped up, just from the ominous shape of this thing… and all my hair stood on end and I could feel the cold sweat beading on my forehead.
Then I made myself laugh out loud talking myself into rationalizing there has to an explanation for this. I carefully looked at the picture going through what’s in the room in my head. I went to the room and scanned from the exact same spot I stood to take the picture. I couldn’t see anything. I stood there for a bit then I went back to the kitchen. I think my hands started shake at this point as I looked more carefully at the picture. My eyes were getting bigger, I could feel, and bugging out. I felt this electricity-like sensation going through my hands and body. A CHILL.
Then I felt really really cold… although it was hot August but air conditioned pretty cold though… I went to the room and started to match item by item that were in the room with the picture in my hand. There were nothing I could attribute to the thing that was in the picture. I repeat again trying to figure out exactly where I took the picture and every item in the room. I could not find anything at all… had to give up… I was just baffled enough to the point I started to get dizzy so I went back to the kitchen and sat down but still l couldn’t take my eyes off the picture.
I had to, I had to go back to the room even though I was all spooked by now and lightheaded. I was walking around desperately trying to make sense of this bizarre thing… I was mumbling something like, “Can’t be, can’t be…” and making myself dizzier by circling around in the room looking at everything randomly… and then I walked out of the room all exhausted and leaning my head against a door frame because I was just so dizzy… then I SAW IT.
[spoiler] My earbuds hanging on the above head bookshelf corner dangling in mid air. :rolleyes:
I had put a tiny nail there so I can hang my ear piece there. Not to forget them when I leave the house because I would always leave them in different pockets etc and forget to take them with me.
The black and grey earbuds with the black cords looped and hanging down… got in the picture very close to the lens hence blurring out of focus. :smack: 
I felt like an idiot but was sooo relived like a lost child finding a familiar road… O’ god I felt sooooooo stupid and happy. 
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Good Chills: The new Hobbit trailer, when the dwarves start singing. Brilliant!
Bad Chills: Last May, 4:00AM, my ex-wife sobbing on the phone, telling me my 5 year old child doesn’t have a virus…he has cancer.
Woeg I can’t even IMAGINE. That gave me chills reading it and I will hug my little boys a little tighter.
For me, it was last week. I had this SEARING pain in my left side, kind of parallel to my hip bone. I’d never had pain like that, like when the pain would surge it would take my breath away and make me want to throw up. For a moment I let my mind go to that place. I was thinking this was it… it’s a giant tumor, something horrible that will take me away from my husband and two little boys forever. It turned out to be a kidney infection which was quickly remedied and I feel good as new now, but at the time it was getting hard to think it was something so simple.
Went to the Seventh (hopefully) Annual A’Capella Extravaganza in Napa last weekend. The UCLA Scattertones performed, and they did a magnificent version of “No Woman No Cry”. The soloist, in the last moments of the song, hit a note that was so pure, perfect, and resonating that it made the audience just sit in rapt adoration, and the standing ovation was damn immediate. His voice was just… perfect. Its something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
The electric quitar in Daft Punk’s ‘Aerodynamic’, starting here at 1:02