Sunday, January 21, 2007

   Meh

Ah, the joys of the college student’s weekend. Today (Saturday) I went in to work at 9:30 and worked my butt off pulling books for people and restocking shelves until 2:45. We were uber busy due to the fact that the classes where I work start on Monday. My feet hurt. After that lovely shift, I then went on a short trip to pick-up some of the art supplies I still need for school and came home to work on my Drawing homework. Apparently I’m stupid enough to want to stand on my feet for 3 and half hours. But then again, about half of my homework (time wise) is now done. Eh, I call it a draw ^_^ In other news, I shall tell the story of what I did last weekend. Since it was the last weekend of break for myself, as well as my friend Harimanne (her real name’s Marianne, but she got the nickname from our friend in sophomore year of high school and it stuck ^_^), we, along with our friend Keebs and her ever-present boyfriend, decided to rent a bunch of movies Friday night. We rented the old version of The Wicker Man, this incredibly cheesy and dumb horror flick called (and I kid you not) Witches of the Caribbean, and also Art School Confidential (mainly because Harimanne is a music major and wanted to see how things compare in art, because, as everyone knows, those two majors are twin sisters when it comes to the “living in a cardboard box” and “Do you want fries with that?” jokes). We watched the witches one first, and we alternated between laughing our asses off and being disgusted. The plot was really jumpy and at times nonsensical, but we got some laughs, so the movie served it’s purpose. After that we watched Art School Confidential, and both Harimanne and I thought it was fantastic. It’s basically a dark comedy about a guy in art school. I loved the scene where they were doing the first class critique ^_^ Harimanne and I compared notes on critiquing art and music, and we decided that art and music majors are equally pretentious and vague when they can’t think of anything constructive to say about the piece. There was much learned all around ^_^ Oh, and we never did get around to watching The Wicker Man. It got too late T_T On Saturday, Keebs decided we should watch some more movies, so we got Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Murder in Greenwich, and The Watcher in the Woods (a Disney classic, despite being a sci-fi thriller with bad acting). We only watched the last two of those, because it got too late to watch Talladega Nights. Also, if that wasn’t enough, I had promised Keebs a few weeks earlier that we would have a movie night on Sunday, and that crazy chick still held me to that promise, so we rented The Illusionist and Thank You For Smoking, only two this time, in order to make room to watch Talladega. The second one turned out to be ok, and funny in parts, but not all it was cracked-up to be and Talladega was stupid funny, as expected. The Illusionist, however, was an absolutely fantastic movie. Unfortunately, it’s one of those movies that can’t really be talked about without ruining the story. The main plus of the movie, though, was the fact that it was able to take some rather tired movie elements and use them well. I mean, there’s the whole “romance between people who are from different classes” thing, but unlike other movies, it isn’t something that’s constantly beaten into the viewer. I think it was only mentioned about twice the whole time. And the romance story itself is rather unconventional, due to the largely unexpected and shocking plot twist about half-way through the movie. Also, since the movie is set in Vienna around the turn of the 1900’s, they filmed the flashback scenes in a style that reminds me of old movies, and the overall color impression I got from the movie reminded me of sepia-toned photographs. It was neat. Anyway, I’m off to do some more homework now, so later ^_^ -Quotation of the Day- “Mother and daughter Girl Scout team selling cookies, found the door open, saw the blood, called the cops.” “There’s gotta be a merit badge for that, right?” -CSI: Miami-

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