Done with school. (for the summer) This morning I ate a ton of Parmesan goldfish. They were pretty bad. I'm on disk 4 of season one of the X-files, which is fairly exciting- but not at all to read about in a blog. And speaking of great TV-DVD purchases; Pinky& The Brain Vol2- awesome. I'm also dying for Medium season 4. (anyone who hates Patricia Arquette I consider a personal enemy)
This blog is boring, so don't read it. But you should definitely comment and tell me how boring my blog is. (yeah, I ended a sentence with a preposition, so what?)
Okay, so movies;
V for Vendetta
Serenity
Matchstick Men
Lost in Translation
Virgin Suicides
Marie Antoinette (yeah, Sofia Coppola rocks)
Unbreakable
Sunshine
Metropolis
Being John Malkovich
Oceans 13
Gattaca
What Lies Beneath
Lars and The Real girl
Minority Report
Juno
The Stepford Wives
Aeon Flux
It may seem like a lot, but this list began back in march, maybe even a little from February.
A few notes: Lars was a lot more depressing than expected. I hope to like it a lot more when I see it a second time, like It was with Science Of Sleep (which I hated the first time, but now can't see enough). Sunshine is BRILLIANT, buy it. Juno- I'm beginning to see as slightly over-rated. It's not a bad movie, but for an Indie film, it's surprisingly cookie cutter. Although, I might be treating it unfairly because comparing any movie to Gummo is unfair. Being John Malkovich is a fantastic movie, the writing is phenomenal. Unbreakable may be the only M.Night movie I can stand to watch. I'm planning on seeing Speed Racer & Iron Man soon and will let you know how I like them.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Objects In Space & Plantonic Collisions
Wow. February Sucks. Thank god Its over. It's a good month for very very happy songs/music and movies about people who are miserable. Really, any movie about a person who is miserable if great because you can watch it whenever you're feeling miserable and you go "Hey! I'm not alone, hurray!". It sounds bitter, I think people automatically assume 'misery loves company' is a bad thing, like it's some sort of dark omen your parents tell you before you go to sleep where the moral of the story is nothing but a whole lot of propaganda that discourages thinking and encourages unchallenged-obedience. That sentence was way too long & I apologize.
My point is, 'misery loves company' has layers of meaning. In what could be termed the 'socially popular' interpretation you have "avoid miserable people because they try to screw up your life & make you not happy". & with such an interpretation, I ask myself "Are there really that many 'evil' people?". The second interpretation I discern is that people who are miserable need company or else they'll just go on deeper into their bitter resentment of whatever it is that makes them 'a miserable person'. Third (& final for all I can think at the moment) ; Misery loves company is Misery desires understanding/intimacy. &o when you say "Hurray! I'm not alone" it doesn't necessarily have negative connotations.
Psychology has turned from 'interesting' to 'streeful'. Math has turned from 'stressful' to 'obnoxious'. School = Work hard, Andrew = Work fast...It's something I need to work on. Also: Camera, sleep, CD, Money-job... As if life wasn't mundane enough. When you strictly avoid human drama, you begin to soak it up like a sponge unintentionally.
Movies watched in february/recently:
Almost Famous
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Serenity
The Life Aquatic
Lost in Translation
Matchstick Men
Rushmore
Michael Clayton
Saved!
The Virgin Suicides
I Heart Huckabees
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Mein Happy Music:
The Arcade Fire
Eisley
Bright Eyes
Mum
Menomena
Flaming Lips
Polyphonic Spree
My point is, 'misery loves company' has layers of meaning. In what could be termed the 'socially popular' interpretation you have "avoid miserable people because they try to screw up your life & make you not happy". & with such an interpretation, I ask myself "Are there really that many 'evil' people?". The second interpretation I discern is that people who are miserable need company or else they'll just go on deeper into their bitter resentment of whatever it is that makes them 'a miserable person'. Third (& final for all I can think at the moment) ; Misery loves company is Misery desires understanding/intimacy. &o when you say "Hurray! I'm not alone" it doesn't necessarily have negative connotations.
Psychology has turned from 'interesting' to 'streeful'. Math has turned from 'stressful' to 'obnoxious'. School = Work hard, Andrew = Work fast...It's something I need to work on. Also: Camera, sleep, CD, Money-job... As if life wasn't mundane enough. When you strictly avoid human drama, you begin to soak it up like a sponge unintentionally.
Movies watched in february/recently:
Almost Famous
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Serenity
The Life Aquatic
Lost in Translation
Matchstick Men
Rushmore
Michael Clayton
Saved!
The Virgin Suicides
I Heart Huckabees
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Mein Happy Music:
The Arcade Fire
Eisley
Bright Eyes
Mum
Menomena
Flaming Lips
Polyphonic Spree
Politics are boring. Whenever it's brought up at my house I'm the only person with my opinion and nobody can ever share anything except for their opinion(s). Opinions with facts & evidence to back them up are what make it possible to share political ideas &o when you only have opinions to share, but you don't have any kind of substantial evidence to explain why/how you feel, all you're really doing is saying what you think/feel and not WHY. Without the "why" political conversations are pointless. You might as well just be saying "I like icecream & I hate spinach.. but I couldn't tell you what spinach did, I just DON'T like it."
So many ideas, so few people to set them in motion. The Truth shall set you free, yet freedom never felt more like a cage. & BE noble.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
The Polyphonic Spree & Michael Clayton
I saw Michael Clayton again. Do you ever have dreams that include "people you knew as a child" but when you wake up, you cannot remember if you ever knew the people with those names? Part of dream this morning included me looking through old photographs of a school field trip but it took me a while to recognize all of the people I knew. Yet now that I am awake, I believe I only imagined the people I could not recognise in the photographs.
Anyways, I think I enjoyed it as much as a could. I hate the Gateway Theatre. Their arcade uses 'tokens', the chairs are uncomfortable, the theaters are too bright, and the atmosphere is very accomidating to the 'mall-rat' persona. Despite all that crap, it's a great movie & I hope to see it a third time in the theater.
I'm undergoing massive philosophical changes, mostly in an esoteric way. In void of human drama, I make a big deal about simple mistakes that nobody cares about. Like calling a visitor/relative the wrong name. Most people think of the imagination as something very distant from reality, but I've found in the past few weeks that the things I can imagine are more real than some of the things I actually feel & experience. But this factor of 'more real' is entirely psychological- for the things I imagine do effect my perception of reality, thereby making what I believe to feel as 'more real' an actual manifestation of whatever imaginary thing is effecting me.
But, concerning human drama-what's funny about making a 'big deal' is simply by recalling a mistake I made, it causes people to tell me "It's okay", "It's no big deal", or "Don't worry about it". It's sort of like a 'self-pity' trigger. People are Slow Guns, waiting to have their triggers pulled. Everything exists in the mind before it comes to pass in reality, therefore our dreams are the only factor of our identities that matter. THE UNICORN IS REAL BECAUSE IT BELIEVES IN ALICE!
Also; Reach For The Sun! 2000 places at once! Take them all together and keep them warm!
I'll close with an anecdote/review of a GREAT film.;
10/12/07: I saw Michael Clayton last night. It was awesome. Reminded me a lot of 'Pi'... My exact words were "It's like this generation's Pi". Tilda Swinton was amazing, Tom Wilkinson too. I was surprised because usually I get very bored in movies like that and It only got boring once. Although, the American mis-conception of " all lawyers are souless" aspect/theme in the movie was a bit obnoxious.
Oh, As I got out of the car to walk into the thearte I noticed the button on my pants had fallen off. It was a very interesting and somewhat thematic problem that was quickly solved by quick thinking not of my own. Whenever I was walking around I had my hands in my pockets and would periodically have to re-sitch them higher. What a weird word 'sitch'. What a bizzare phrase "Weird word". Its one of those that would sound very funny if you just repeat it over and over tens of times. Also, "Rainbow Sommersault", and "They are building something else."
I'll close with a list of phrases that sound best when repeated 32 times;
"We can not let you go in there"
"Data goes into my-mind"
"Racoon macaroon, bacon bacon"
"Mythical Carnivores who breathe & Spit-fire"
And lastly "How am I not myself?"
Anyways, I think I enjoyed it as much as a could. I hate the Gateway Theatre. Their arcade uses 'tokens', the chairs are uncomfortable, the theaters are too bright, and the atmosphere is very accomidating to the 'mall-rat' persona. Despite all that crap, it's a great movie & I hope to see it a third time in the theater.
I'm undergoing massive philosophical changes, mostly in an esoteric way. In void of human drama, I make a big deal about simple mistakes that nobody cares about. Like calling a visitor/relative the wrong name. Most people think of the imagination as something very distant from reality, but I've found in the past few weeks that the things I can imagine are more real than some of the things I actually feel & experience. But this factor of 'more real' is entirely psychological- for the things I imagine do effect my perception of reality, thereby making what I believe to feel as 'more real' an actual manifestation of whatever imaginary thing is effecting me.
But, concerning human drama-what's funny about making a 'big deal' is simply by recalling a mistake I made, it causes people to tell me "It's okay", "It's no big deal", or "Don't worry about it". It's sort of like a 'self-pity' trigger. People are Slow Guns, waiting to have their triggers pulled. Everything exists in the mind before it comes to pass in reality, therefore our dreams are the only factor of our identities that matter. THE UNICORN IS REAL BECAUSE IT BELIEVES IN ALICE!
Also; Reach For The Sun! 2000 places at once! Take them all together and keep them warm!
I'll close with an anecdote/review of a GREAT film.;
10/12/07: I saw Michael Clayton last night. It was awesome. Reminded me a lot of 'Pi'... My exact words were "It's like this generation's Pi". Tilda Swinton was amazing, Tom Wilkinson too. I was surprised because usually I get very bored in movies like that and It only got boring once. Although, the American mis-conception of " all lawyers are souless" aspect/theme in the movie was a bit obnoxious.
Oh, As I got out of the car to walk into the thearte I noticed the button on my pants had fallen off. It was a very interesting and somewhat thematic problem that was quickly solved by quick thinking not of my own. Whenever I was walking around I had my hands in my pockets and would periodically have to re-sitch them higher. What a weird word 'sitch'. What a bizzare phrase "Weird word". Its one of those that would sound very funny if you just repeat it over and over tens of times. Also, "Rainbow Sommersault", and "They are building something else."
I'll close with a list of phrases that sound best when repeated 32 times;
"We can not let you go in there"
"Data goes into my-mind"
"Racoon macaroon, bacon bacon"
"Mythical Carnivores who breathe & Spit-fire"
And lastly "How am I not myself?"
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