4 posts tagged “movies”
What's your "go-to" movie? The one you watch when you need to just get away from it all?
Submitted by uncagedbird.
Depending on what kind of time I have:
Loooong time slot available: The LotR trilogy. Also my go-to books.
Littleish time slot available: "Ever After." I love this movie, and having watched it a good.... 3 billion times... I'm still not sick of it :)
So - I saw this movie by accident tonight.
I've been wanting to see it since the second it hit theaters. Numerous finance/time/location issues (they kept moving the damn thing around) made that difficult. Abby and I were in Berkeley today, having gone to a Friday sermon & prayer at UC Berkeley for a World Religions project - we went with Kimi, also in World Religions, and the three of us ended up having lunch with a group of the young Muslim women from Cal.
Abby and I had originally planned to see "Wristcutters: A Love Story" afterward -
In wandering around town to see if Wristcutters was playing, we noticed something on Shattuck Cinemas' show listings: "Across the Universe". We gasped. We cried. We nearly fainted. We realized that we had (by fate and nothing else) walked into SC at the very moment the previews were starting and we quickly bought tickets, ran inside, and plopped ourselves down in the middle of the theater.
This movie is AMAZING, everyone. There are some amazing voices in it, as well as great acting. It is INTENSELY trippy at times (given the subject matter it kind of HAS to be), and even Eddie.Freaking.Izzard. is in it with his rendition of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite." Sadie (Dana Fuchs) is one of my favorite characters in the film- she has this amazing Janis Joplin-esque voice (and it's obvious that the character is modeled after Janis) and rocks the hell out of this film. The "Let It Be" scene was incredibly moving - that's the first time I've cried at a movie in quite a while. I didn't think I would like Evan Rachel Wood in this but she did an amazing job as well. Jim Sturgess = someone I'd like to see a lot more of in the future.
Just see it. I could get very specific about the parts I like, but the point is simply that this movie is a must-see and something you have to see for yourself to truly appreciate it.
Abby and I went to see "Death at a Funeral" tonight.
It's GLORIOUS.
Alan Tudyk is hilarious in it. So is everyone else, but he really outshines most.
Go see it.
That is all.
Poetic process?! Write an essay on your poetic process?! I would rather she had asked me to ... I don't know ... give birth to a live brontosaurus right then and there!
Oh, speaking of birthing, I have a friend who is freaking out because another friend of hers just announced today that she is pregnant. A year ago, this may have freaked me out too, the fact that someone only a year older than I is now a momma. But in the past year, three people I know have either given birth or gotten pregnant -- one younger than myself, one my age, and one just a smidge older. So, surprisingly enough, my friends/acquaintances getting knocked up ... really isn't shocking news to me anymore.
But back to the essay ... It's for poetry class. The one that I enrolled in because I want to read and write poetry. I didn't say I want to write process essays. In fact, that was never part of the deal. Essays are the one form of writing that I despise with the fire of a thousand suns (to quote "10 Things I Hate About You")... Yes, yes, it's a creative essay, and I know and at least appreciate that, but, for the love of spoons, WHYYYYY??!
Speaking of aforementioned most wonderful teen movie ever made ... Should NOT have watched it last night. Why? We're reading "Taming of the Shrew" in Shakespeare right now. Which "10 Things" is entirely based on. I kept finding yet MORE similarities between the two in discussion in class today, and had a really, really difficult time not giggling throughout or raising my hand and pointing out the similarities to the rest of the class (I don't think my professor would have been amused...).
Speaking of not being amused ... as far as the M Center/ASC is concerned, I am not amused. They denied my petition to take the Italian class at Cal. DENIED it. As in, said NO. With absolutely no good reason (they won't even attempt to give me a reason why until tomorrow). This really, really, REALLY upsets me -- I spent sooo much money on books for that class (and I can't return two of them), and I really really really love that class, and I was just getting used to getting up at 6 a.m., and if I have to drop it then I will not be taking a decent amount of credits, I'll be over minimum credit, but the credits I earn this semester will still be ridiculously few, even with seven classes (this is what you get for taking four quarter credit classes...) and YAAAAAAGGGGHHHH I hates them.
One more thing: I managed to burn myself on the little heating unit in my room last night. I was either headed towards the sink or window and somehow (HOW?!) I tripped over something/myself .. hell, I don't know what happened. All I know is that I was suddenly and unpleasantly saying hello to the heating unit with my thigh, and as I was already wearing my pajama shorts, there wasn't even any fabric to burn first, it was just my skin and the heater gettin' close. Ow. It hurt.
Thankfully, I'm the kind of person who owns two first aid kits and two burn kits (sometimes I love my paranoia).
Okay. Back to trying to figure out how I go about writing a poem. :S
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