"I sit here, in the hotel room, as Pompeii is premiered on Fox Movies Premium. Below, on the ground floor, the entertainers belt out songs way into the night, caring not for the sleep of the guests above them. The hotel’s tag line, intriguingly, is “Imagine the happening, all just by next door...”
We live in a world surrounded and crafted by the stories we are told and tell. What we hear, as much as anything, plays a big role in this. Yet for the most part, we rarely stop to listen. Hear, yes. Listen? That is another story completely."