status quo.
Opening dialogue from Brick:
Emily: Brendan.
Brendan: Emily.
Emily: Yeah... How's things?
Brendan: Status quo.
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The film was not bad. Loved 90% of the dialogue. Loved the Emily/Brendan relationship. Knew who he shouldn't have trusted right from the start. Can see why it was compared to Veronica Mars, except it's way gloomier than VM.
Regardless. The Emily/Brendan relationship sealed the deal for me. Heartbreaking, it was.
I downloaded the shooting script from the movie's official website and spent 50% of Trusts lecture reading it. Why do I have a thing for reading screenplays of films that I've already watched? I don't know. But there was this point in time during which I wanted to write screenplays, and I still think that such things can be self-taught. It's fascinating, figuring out how a story translates from paper to film.
Anyway, that's just one of my...I don't know, weird...hobbies. Or something.
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I should do Public Law readings. Yeah.
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Favourite poem at the moment: Jim Carroll's "While She's Gone". I vaguely emulated his style in the poem when I was in JC2 and I'm very ashamed to say that the stuff I wrote in that style really, really sucked. Completely ridiculous tripe, if you want my honest opinion.
Jim Carroll is...okay. I think he wrote a lot better when he was on crack. Which means he isn't really that talented. But still, loved The Basketball Diaries. Too bad I lost that book. Oh well, it matters not; I've outgrown that phase anyway.
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I really should do Public Law readings. Yep.
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I ate SO MUCH today that I just wanna DIEEE. Heavy lunch at a nice place near my house with my mom; pan-friend linguine with home-made mackerel otah. It got way too oily after a while and I didn't finish it. Really liked the ice-blended mocha with soya bean milk without chocolate, though.
Dinner with Mag at Melvados. Baked dory with garlic croutons, after which we shared a brownie. I FEEL SO FAT. But the food was awesome.
Happy lunch, happy dinner, unhappy Trusts lecture.
On second thought, BC was damn funny in Trusts today. I listened more today than I did the previous lecture so I guess that kinda counts as an improvement.
Mostly though, I'm still devastatingly apathetic and indifferent.
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Looking forward to Pei's birthday party on Wednesday. Something to do! Yay.
Really should do Public Law readings. Yep.statuos