We live above a DVD-booth rental shop, so the stairways leading up to the 4th floor are papered with movie posters.  One thing I’ve come to appreciate about movie posters is that the images are so intense – each scene is a powerful emotional message designed to capture and communicate something about the experience of watching the movie.  Walking (or hobbling) through the stairway is like wandering through a gallery of intense emotional moments, and with over 100 posters, there’s a moment for every emotion.  Whether I’m headed off to work or trudging back, I can find a movie to match my mood.One of my favorite movie posters is for “Midnight Meat Train.”  A blurry image of a psychopath with a meat mallet, ready to brutally tenderize every part of your body.  It’s a great movie poster for foul moods, and one can just imagine Seoul readying herself to maul us.  Then there’s “The Wrestler,” for days when we feel beaten down and burned out.  There’s also a movie (top right) with Shia Lebeouf, which really just fills us with rage because we think of Indiana Jones IV.  On the bottom left, a beaming Ashton Couture with his beautiful girlfriend/wife Cameron Diaz…that is not quite a poster I’ve empathized with yet here…Finally, on the top middle, “The Transporter.”  I’m just waiting for that day when I can walk down the stairs and feel like Jason Statholm ready to seriously kick some ass.

So I think mood forecasts are in order, based on those movies whose posters just seem to say, “I feel you man – here, let me show you exactly how you feel, but more so.”  Expect such forecasts to follow…