Getting some
There is an expression that I really dig and its not something that I come across as much as I used to. The phrase is ‘They just get it”. Its not something that is easily explained, it can show up in a simple nod or perhaps even a joke told in the back of a bar but when it happens there is this unmistakable sense of recognition that tells you the person in front of you is cut from the same cloth. Its usually followed by a hey or whoa and that is all is needed.
This can also go for people you haven’t met, take Judd Apatow for instance, he just seems to get it. His writing is dead on with the way a lot of people talk and act, even if it offends. This couldn’t be any more apparent than in his newest movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and in particular the following scene.
How obvious is that scene and yet it appears for the first time in 2007. Something so natural and yet so dang funny, as if you were just talking to a friend. Looking forward to this one as all the Ray’s, Doors, and Walk the Line needed a little mocking.
The words of a guy that just gets it:
I’m a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That’s what kind of man I am. You’re just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It’s science.
Well if you were a man, I’d punch you. Punch you right in the mouth.
I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal. People know me. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
I’m gonna punch you in the ovary, that’s what I’m gonna do. A straight shot. Right to the babymaker.
We are laughing and we are very good friends. Good buddies sharing a special moment…laughing and enjoying our friendship, and someday we’ll look back on this with much fondness.