Damn the Weekend
Originally Posted at 01:02 AM on Jan. 20, 2004
The weekend hath ruined my time management. Without having to rush from task to task, with the next waiting its turn to call on my attention. There is no pressure to complete a task in a proper time frame. I've had a few assignments to do, and aside from pecking at the dullest one, they went virtually untouched until two hours ago. I've written my personal essay, an embarrasing, emotional look at a past occurrence I may or may not have the balls to post here. "An event where language changed your life." Maybe I'll post the final draft, we'll see. I will probably get picked to read it to the class, and I've almost come to grips with it. Nothing like a 19 year old guy talking about crying to leave a lasting impression on everyone. And it's only the third day of class, woo!
In other news, I took in a few movies this weekend (in class, rented, and played on network? cable) - You can click on the name of the movie to be linked to IMDB.com's entry about it, including cast, the poster for the film, and so on. American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, The Usual Suspects, Run Lola Run(German), Blow Dry, and Reality Bites.
American Movie is a documentary-type film that follows the life of a man trying to make a movie (Northwestern), and the things that happen, how life gets in the way, and other such things. I laughed, I felt bad, I was awed. If you're feeling artsy, run on over to Blockbuster's Sundance section, and pick this flick up. On the cover is a thin guy with huuuge glasses, and a guy similar to a character Horatio Sanz has played a number of times. (That character, Mike Schanck is at times, unintentionally, laugh-out-loud funny and terribly, terribly sad.)
The Usual Suspects directed by Bryan Singer (now well known for X-Men and X-2), is a crime-drama which I now highly recommend. I had actually seen the last 30 seconds or so of the movie on AMC before seeing the rest of it. Knowing how it would end, I was still very much entertained by the movie's twists and turns. I'm looking forward to watching it with my roomie again sometime this week. - Note: Kevin Spacey deserved, and took home an Academy Award for his performance.
Run Lola Run is a German story of a girl who must acquire 100,000 Marks and get them to her boyfriend within 20 minutes, or he'll be killed. The story goes along the lines of "what if" and kind of explores the butterfly effect, how one small thing in someone's life can entirely change the course of someone else's life (as opposed to actually using a butterfly). And the camera-use was simply phenomenal. I was pretty amazed by a few of the shots they did - Not in a Matrix-kind-of-way, but nonetheless. Also found in the Sundance section of your local Blockbuster.
Blow Dry is a dramedy starring Alan Rickman, a few English stars, Josh Hartnett (ick), and Rachel Leigh Cook (mmm). It is about a hair cutting competition and family, it takes place in a small town in the UK. Kind of like a down and out, comeback story, I can't really articulate it, but it was decent. I don't foresee watching it again anytime soon though.
Reality Bites is a movie starring Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn and Ben Stiller. Tagged, "A love story for the 90s," it follows the life of Lelaina and her friends. It was memorable for the cast, and yet another story of best friends falling in love, and overcoming the trouble it entails. I'd like to catch it uncut, unedited, undubbed sometime, but otherwise, I probably won't see it again.
The winners: American Movie, The Usual Suspects, Run Lola Run,
The okay-ish: Reality Bites, Blow Dry
Now to learn Spanish, and bore myself to sleep with more History of Science and Politics at the turn of the 20th century. (It doesn't sound nearly as boring as it is.)
Originally Posted at 01:02 AM on Jan. 20, 2004
The weekend hath ruined my time management. Without having to rush from task to task, with the next waiting its turn to call on my attention. There is no pressure to complete a task in a proper time frame. I've had a few assignments to do, and aside from pecking at the dullest one, they went virtually untouched until two hours ago. I've written my personal essay, an embarrasing, emotional look at a past occurrence I may or may not have the balls to post here. "An event where language changed your life." Maybe I'll post the final draft, we'll see. I will probably get picked to read it to the class, and I've almost come to grips with it. Nothing like a 19 year old guy talking about crying to leave a lasting impression on everyone. And it's only the third day of class, woo!
In other news, I took in a few movies this weekend (in class, rented, and played on network? cable) - You can click on the name of the movie to be linked to IMDB.com's entry about it, including cast, the poster for the film, and so on. American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, The Usual Suspects, Run Lola Run(German), Blow Dry, and Reality Bites.
American Movie is a documentary-type film that follows the life of a man trying to make a movie (Northwestern), and the things that happen, how life gets in the way, and other such things. I laughed, I felt bad, I was awed. If you're feeling artsy, run on over to Blockbuster's Sundance section, and pick this flick up. On the cover is a thin guy with huuuge glasses, and a guy similar to a character Horatio Sanz has played a number of times. (That character, Mike Schanck is at times, unintentionally, laugh-out-loud funny and terribly, terribly sad.)
The Usual Suspects directed by Bryan Singer (now well known for X-Men and X-2), is a crime-drama which I now highly recommend. I had actually seen the last 30 seconds or so of the movie on AMC before seeing the rest of it. Knowing how it would end, I was still very much entertained by the movie's twists and turns. I'm looking forward to watching it with my roomie again sometime this week. - Note: Kevin Spacey deserved, and took home an Academy Award for his performance.
Run Lola Run is a German story of a girl who must acquire 100,000 Marks and get them to her boyfriend within 20 minutes, or he'll be killed. The story goes along the lines of "what if" and kind of explores the butterfly effect, how one small thing in someone's life can entirely change the course of someone else's life (as opposed to actually using a butterfly). And the camera-use was simply phenomenal. I was pretty amazed by a few of the shots they did - Not in a Matrix-kind-of-way, but nonetheless. Also found in the Sundance section of your local Blockbuster.
Blow Dry is a dramedy starring Alan Rickman, a few English stars, Josh Hartnett (ick), and Rachel Leigh Cook (mmm). It is about a hair cutting competition and family, it takes place in a small town in the UK. Kind of like a down and out, comeback story, I can't really articulate it, but it was decent. I don't foresee watching it again anytime soon though.
Reality Bites is a movie starring Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn and Ben Stiller. Tagged, "A love story for the 90s," it follows the life of Lelaina and her friends. It was memorable for the cast, and yet another story of best friends falling in love, and overcoming the trouble it entails. I'd like to catch it uncut, unedited, undubbed sometime, but otherwise, I probably won't see it again.
The winners: American Movie, The Usual Suspects, Run Lola Run,
The okay-ish: Reality Bites, Blow Dry
Now to learn Spanish, and bore myself to sleep with more History of Science and Politics at the turn of the 20th century. (It doesn't sound nearly as boring as it is.)
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