update
so, while i get some new tunes, look at the sunday classifieds online and otherwise catch up on a few things, i will expand on current events with me just a tad.
friday was a little busier than it might have been because i was unorganized. have been a lot recently. this is my problem. right when things get thickest and i need to tighten up, my head gets overwhelmed. still, did the main things i needed to do: confirmed with sulky_girl so i had a place to stay, got the materials i needed to bring for the test, got some laundry done and got to the bus station in a timely fashion (also arranged a time for my monday phone screening and shot off thank you notes to the corbis people).
...you know, looking at it written down, i got a little more done than i thought. there's just some damn much to do!
a scanner darkly is based on a philip k. dick novel, for those handful who are both interested and didn't already know. it's got some artistic firepower by is released through warner brothers independent, so people must've been working for closer to scale and a take of the unlikely profits--a labor of love, in other words, which is cool.
unlike blade runner and whatever that schwarzenegger abomination was --total recall--it's faithful to the book. this is good and bad. dick tended to churn out stuff to try to keep his financial head above water, so even his best, his writing is uneven, and they use a little too much of his purple dialog, like it was gospel or something. also, the drug culture as represented here is already passe. in the era of crack and meth, it's quaint to see a community of druggies crashing in a vaguely functional house, instead of a feral pack of street apes.
keanu is keanu. his stoner/everyman persona tends to be most effective when he's in a setting where everything around him is falling apart. his stolidity becomes a rock for the audience to hold onto. he's sorta a modern-day gregory peck and he has his moments. similar with winona ryder. but i cut her more slack because she's, well, winona ryder! i'm sure those of you who feel the same way about keanu understand. woody harrelson's just having fun and he's pretty funny. robert downey jr finally gets to play hunter s. thompson--in a manner of speaking--and goes to town as the paranoid, schixzoid, brilliant, scheming, manipulator of the drug house....
the fascinating thing about the movie is the rotoscoping. director richard lanklater--dazed and confused, before sunrise, school of rock--used a technique where animators essentially draw over every panel of a filmed sequence, making it into an ultra-realistic cartoon. it's a gimmick, but for a tale where the characters spend their time in unrealities of drug abuse, schizophrenia and hallucination, it allows the film to veer from gritty realism to the fantastic whith no gear-shifting involved. not unlike seeing a gilliam flick. no use me recommending it. this should tell you whether you want to see it or not....
stayed up way to late catching up on old times with sulky_girl and even when i did turn in, nerves kept me up a little longer. so it was about four hours later i had to get up for the west-b.
the test mostly just covers whether you know and understand basic math and language skills that high school students need to be taught. so it's not very hard. it's mostly meant to screen out the painfully stupid, the woefully uneducated and people who forgot almost everything they learned in school and didn't care to try to review beforehand. i'm sure i did okay. maybe did quite well. it was weird though. i hadn't taken a standardized test in more than >i?20 years!
back here for gaelfarce's game. probably ran 'til about 1 am with one thing and another. then a very tired me went to bed and slept in today.
hope you had a good weekend!
friday was a little busier than it might have been because i was unorganized. have been a lot recently. this is my problem. right when things get thickest and i need to tighten up, my head gets overwhelmed. still, did the main things i needed to do: confirmed with sulky_girl so i had a place to stay, got the materials i needed to bring for the test, got some laundry done and got to the bus station in a timely fashion (also arranged a time for my monday phone screening and shot off thank you notes to the corbis people).
...you know, looking at it written down, i got a little more done than i thought. there's just some damn much to do!
a scanner darkly is based on a philip k. dick novel, for those handful who are both interested and didn't already know. it's got some artistic firepower by is released through warner brothers independent, so people must've been working for closer to scale and a take of the unlikely profits--a labor of love, in other words, which is cool.
unlike blade runner and whatever that schwarzenegger abomination was --total recall--it's faithful to the book. this is good and bad. dick tended to churn out stuff to try to keep his financial head above water, so even his best, his writing is uneven, and they use a little too much of his purple dialog, like it was gospel or something. also, the drug culture as represented here is already passe. in the era of crack and meth, it's quaint to see a community of druggies crashing in a vaguely functional house, instead of a feral pack of street apes.
keanu is keanu. his stoner/everyman persona tends to be most effective when he's in a setting where everything around him is falling apart. his stolidity becomes a rock for the audience to hold onto. he's sorta a modern-day gregory peck and he has his moments. similar with winona ryder. but i cut her more slack because she's, well, winona ryder! i'm sure those of you who feel the same way about keanu understand. woody harrelson's just having fun and he's pretty funny. robert downey jr finally gets to play hunter s. thompson--in a manner of speaking--and goes to town as the paranoid, schixzoid, brilliant, scheming, manipulator of the drug house....
the fascinating thing about the movie is the rotoscoping. director richard lanklater--dazed and confused, before sunrise, school of rock--used a technique where animators essentially draw over every panel of a filmed sequence, making it into an ultra-realistic cartoon. it's a gimmick, but for a tale where the characters spend their time in unrealities of drug abuse, schizophrenia and hallucination, it allows the film to veer from gritty realism to the fantastic whith no gear-shifting involved. not unlike seeing a gilliam flick. no use me recommending it. this should tell you whether you want to see it or not....
stayed up way to late catching up on old times with sulky_girl and even when i did turn in, nerves kept me up a little longer. so it was about four hours later i had to get up for the west-b.
the test mostly just covers whether you know and understand basic math and language skills that high school students need to be taught. so it's not very hard. it's mostly meant to screen out the painfully stupid, the woefully uneducated and people who forgot almost everything they learned in school and didn't care to try to review beforehand. i'm sure i did okay. maybe did quite well. it was weird though. i hadn't taken a standardized test in more than >i?20 years!
back here for gaelfarce's game. probably ran 'til about 1 am with one thing and another. then a very tired me went to bed and slept in today.
hope you had a good weekend!