  So I followed the link on urlLink Haddock through to Tom Coates' urlLink plasticbag.org | about | faqs | What the hell is this site for?
which was okay, then I checked out urlLink Why on earth 'plasticbag.org'? , in which Tom mentions the plastic bag scene from American Beauty as a kind of inspiration after the fact. I remember this so well. I'd been rather depressed, and it so happened that I went alone to the Ritzy cinema in Brixton on my birthday, a few birthdays ago, to see American Beauty, and when I saw the plastic bag footage I wanted to get up and applaud. But I didn't. It was a film. That would have been wrong. Anyway, reminded of this scene I go off looking for references, and I find someone offering a urlLink Heraclitean reading of the two scenes in which the plastic bag footage is shown.
The thread doesn't exactly fly, but it was a nice little find for a very minor league Heraclitean living in Sydenham. There's also a lovely observation I found by Allen Claxton on urlLink Andstuff.org wiki: By far, though, for me, the best thing about American Beauty was the plastic bag, which, for me, hooks into what Colin Wilson (drawing on one of the James brothers) describes as 'prehension'--being so completely of and in touch with the world, that everything is astounding in its beauty. 
