Theme Thursday : Wild Thing...

I'm sure that today, someone in blogland is paying homage to The Troggs and their universally known version of Wild Thing...or Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side...


I'm also fairly certain that another enterprising individual or group has come up with an equally compelling post devoted to Maurice Sendak's long popular children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, and the release of its cinematic adaptation...


This brings to mind various sides of wildness...from the unforgettable bathtub scene between Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes in Anthony Minghella's film, The English Patient, to the "soft, wet kiss that went on for days," between Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner in Bull Durham, all of us can relate to desire and the explosive power behind a single kiss, the touch of a hand or the gentle stroke of the cheek.


Beyond eroticism, however, wildness is often reflected in a final eruption of frustration as seen in Network, when a memorable Peter Finch as Howard Beale bellows, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"


While we may leave, divorce, marry, date, move house or resort to radical antics in the vein of not taking it anymore, few of us have the luxury of simply quitting a job and heading for New York or some or some other mythologized location as did Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. Fewer still pack a motor coach and travel the country sorting through the mistakes of our lives, as was done by Jack Nicholson's staid midwestern character in the 2002 film, About Schmidt.



Still, the allure of wildness, whether human or animal, facinates and beguiles...



When I think of wild things, memories of the sense of urgency dominating my youth, impulsivity and the desire to be anywhere but my own skin at that time, crowd my thoughts. The wildest, for me, has yet to occur.



What about you?

Wheelin' on the wild side...

Until Next Time...