Los problemas de mente sencilla: DAmnit!

Okay, So I'm late(once again) with my post and even worse, I've lost the topics of blog posts each week. I have a hunch that we're supposed to talk about one of the articles for this week, but I'm not sure what the second post is supposed to be. Damnit.

Ayight, So everybody has been talking about the Sorin article. Bitching bothers me, and I try to seperate myself from that type of discourse(if one wants to even consider it discourse), so I'll stay away from that article for this week. Instead, why don't we take a look at Uma Thurman as her character Mia Wallace from the movie
Pulp Fiction. I post this picture, because Cheryl Glenn's Article
Unspoken: A rhetoric of silence reminded me of a quote from the movie. If you have not seen the movie yet, I highly recommend it, especially if you like movies with alternative naratives. But before I digress from the relationship of movie and article, here is the quote and link to clip:
Mia: Don't you hate that?
Vincent: What?
Mia: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent: I don't know. That's a good question.
Mia: That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

The setting is at a restaurant, and the characters have met for the first time, and are basically out on a date. It has some elements of awkwardness due to the fact that his boss is also her husband. When analyzing the reasoning behind the silence, I found that I have been in a similar situation, but not necessarily with first dates, but just when meeting new people in general.
In this quote, Mia is referencing two different types of silences: The uncomfortable silence and comfortable silence. It seems that when people are uncertain where to pursue a conversation due to not being familiar with the other person, it seems that people tend to tread cautiously into conversation. Mia speaks about the uncomfortable silence as if it's worse than bullshit conversation. I guess it's this bullshit conversation that warms people up towards each other, breaks the ice,and allows the persons partaking to gradually open up to different topics in the conversation. Bullshit conversation offers a safeground it seems, everyone knows that a person shouldn't discuss politics and religion when meeting first time, even though these are all interesting topics that ould lend themselves to passionate conversation. So instead of deeper conversation, we stick to the walls of shallow areas so we don't drown with in a discourse that could piss off the other people. Or as our character points out, silence. Okay, to go back to the article, the author sites a list of meanings to interpret silences. I don't see any points that describe the situation as I have but combinations of the list(pg. 16)
The second type of conversation that she talks about is the comfortable silence, usually that's felt by both parties. I think of old people, who have been together for many years. While this sounds "pleasant" it also sounds boring and way too routine. I think the closest point that describes Mia's insight into silence is number 20: the person's silence reflects empathic exchange, the companionship of shared mood or insight. Within a relationship for so long, i would think that your soulmate and yourself would be so insync, that little to nothing has to be said to be understood. Ayight, I'm sure I could try to express my ideas better, but I'm spent. Here's some music. Pretty interesting Hip hop group. Try not to be offended by their name, while somewhat crass, it is a good play on word.