"what's gone may be gone / but I won't go on playing dead"
1. Again I do not understand how it is almost 2am where does the time go SERIOUSLY.
2. I think I am just inordinately, tragically bad at multi-tasking, however much I'd like to believe that I'm truly awesome at it. I wanted to get around to tracking some of my January audios since I'll be racking up a BUNCH more in May (THREE WEEKS ZOMG), and thought I could at the same time catch up on my book and movie reviews. EPIC FAILURE THERE. I managed to track the FIRST ACT of A Little Night Music (awww, Natasha :( ♥ - also, Vanessa is a LEGEND and I am legit in love with Christine Baranski's sassy mcsassy line readings), write the book review and... nothing. FAIL FAIL FAIL.
3. Which means I am behind on emails and comments and I APOLOGISE to people, I am not ignoring you (well, no more than normal, anyway, ahahaha). Will hopefully get to it eventually. At least instead of getting caught up, I had a good weekend, with movies, friends and SLEEP. (Though not right now... obviously.)
4. I'm on a bit of a movie kick right now. Finally there are films playing in cinemas here that I want to see! Plus I finished my longass book Instance of the Fingerpost (mindbendingly good and so smart that it made my brain hurt from it) and am finally reading movie magazines again. So I'm looking forward to so many films! Can I say, OMG, posters and standees of Angels & Demons going up in cinemas everywhere = inordinatelyexcited!ellixian! I don't even know WHY, beyond the fact that I loved A&D a LOT more than Da Vinci Code and have always thought it'd be far more suited to a cinematic adaptation. I guess I'm a sucker for shiny pretty ads. Also I am a closet Tom Hanks fangirl (even with the mullet from DVC) and would watch him in anything (shut up). OH ONE MORE THING: EWAAAAAAN.
5. So this weekend I saw:
a. 17 Again, in which I discovered that I might, after all, have less disdain for Zac Efron than I first did after watching the original HSM. CURSES. Why so charming, Zac? With such disarmingly blue eyes? Sigh. The movie turned out better than I thought it would be, actually. I was expecting utter brainless dreck - and not that it WASN'T that, but it was fairly QUALITY brainless dreck. Good jokes, good performances, easy on the eyes... I CRIED, I ADMIT IT. Also, Matthew Perry. Awww. What happened to your hotness? D:
b. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil - one of the two films I've managed to catch during the Singapore film festival (FAIL, ME). A documentary of the most uniformally failtastic metal band in history. Basically the chronicling of an epic bromance and an ode to the untrammelled optimism of lead singer Steve 'Lips' Kudlow.
c. Revolutionary Road - OH KATE WINSLET HOW ARE YOU MADE OF SO MUCH EPIC AWESOME? Oh, and Leonardo too, I ALWAYS forget he's a good actor, which is bad of me and I'd like to think is an after-effect of Titanic Syndrome. But what a movie, my goodness. I loved watching the leads just rip into each other - acting their faces off and SHOUTING and SCREAMING - but also thought it was such a smart, painful dissection of a not-quite modern marriage. Oh god, who ELSE felt their lives were full of hopeless emptiness after the show and wanted to move to New York Paris? It can't JUST have been me.
6. Meryl on her surprising newfound bankability: "It's completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it. Which is so thrilling!" ♥ ♥ ♥
7. Oh random fail from today. I bought a bottle of Coke Zero to bring into the cinema with me - and of course, having MY luck, picked up a bottle that was sealed completely shut. I gouged out a chunk of my ring finger trying to open the damn thing. NOT exaggerating, it hurts like a MOFO when it comes into contact with water. So I brought the bottle back to the store, and turns out EVERY Coke Zero bottle there was sealed shut. WTF defective shipment!!! So I had to trade for something else of equivalent price, and picked Sarsi Light. Which tasted like SHIT so I dumped it after a few mouthfuls. Yuck, FML etc.
8. OMIGOD BETH'S VOICE WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS IT DOING TO ME. (Never going to stop listening to this song ever in my life, guys, how does someone sound this sassy and incredible and DIFFERENT ASKDFHALDHASDA. I am never going to stop pimping or talking about the awesome 15-second closing note, so you might as well download it if you don't already know what I'm talking about.) In any case, I am starting to plot my theatre schedule. At the rate I am going I will be back at the Westside Theatre, like, four times over two weeks. EXCESSIVE MUCH? Or AWESOME? *cries*
2. I think I am just inordinately, tragically bad at multi-tasking, however much I'd like to believe that I'm truly awesome at it. I wanted to get around to tracking some of my January audios since I'll be racking up a BUNCH more in May (THREE WEEKS ZOMG), and thought I could at the same time catch up on my book and movie reviews. EPIC FAILURE THERE. I managed to track the FIRST ACT of A Little Night Music (awww, Natasha :( ♥ - also, Vanessa is a LEGEND and I am legit in love with Christine Baranski's sassy mcsassy line readings), write the book review and... nothing. FAIL FAIL FAIL.
3. Which means I am behind on emails and comments and I APOLOGISE to people, I am not ignoring you (well, no more than normal, anyway, ahahaha). Will hopefully get to it eventually. At least instead of getting caught up, I had a good weekend, with movies, friends and SLEEP. (Though not right now... obviously.)
4. I'm on a bit of a movie kick right now. Finally there are films playing in cinemas here that I want to see! Plus I finished my longass book Instance of the Fingerpost (mindbendingly good and so smart that it made my brain hurt from it) and am finally reading movie magazines again. So I'm looking forward to so many films! Can I say, OMG, posters and standees of Angels & Demons going up in cinemas everywhere = inordinatelyexcited!ellixian! I don't even know WHY, beyond the fact that I loved A&D a LOT more than Da Vinci Code and have always thought it'd be far more suited to a cinematic adaptation. I guess I'm a sucker for shiny pretty ads. Also I am a closet Tom Hanks fangirl (even with the mullet from DVC) and would watch him in anything (shut up). OH ONE MORE THING: EWAAAAAAN.
5. So this weekend I saw:
a. 17 Again, in which I discovered that I might, after all, have less disdain for Zac Efron than I first did after watching the original HSM. CURSES. Why so charming, Zac? With such disarmingly blue eyes? Sigh. The movie turned out better than I thought it would be, actually. I was expecting utter brainless dreck - and not that it WASN'T that, but it was fairly QUALITY brainless dreck. Good jokes, good performances, easy on the eyes... I CRIED, I ADMIT IT. Also, Matthew Perry. Awww. What happened to your hotness? D:
b. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil - one of the two films I've managed to catch during the Singapore film festival (FAIL, ME). A documentary of the most uniformally failtastic metal band in history. Basically the chronicling of an epic bromance and an ode to the untrammelled optimism of lead singer Steve 'Lips' Kudlow.
c. Revolutionary Road - OH KATE WINSLET HOW ARE YOU MADE OF SO MUCH EPIC AWESOME? Oh, and Leonardo too, I ALWAYS forget he's a good actor, which is bad of me and I'd like to think is an after-effect of Titanic Syndrome. But what a movie, my goodness. I loved watching the leads just rip into each other - acting their faces off and SHOUTING and SCREAMING - but also thought it was such a smart, painful dissection of a not-quite modern marriage. Oh god, who ELSE felt their lives were full of hopeless emptiness after the show and wanted to move to New York Paris? It can't JUST have been me.
6. Meryl on her surprising newfound bankability: "It's completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it. Which is so thrilling!" ♥ ♥ ♥
7. Oh random fail from today. I bought a bottle of Coke Zero to bring into the cinema with me - and of course, having MY luck, picked up a bottle that was sealed completely shut. I gouged out a chunk of my ring finger trying to open the damn thing. NOT exaggerating, it hurts like a MOFO when it comes into contact with water. So I brought the bottle back to the store, and turns out EVERY Coke Zero bottle there was sealed shut. WTF defective shipment!!! So I had to trade for something else of equivalent price, and picked Sarsi Light. Which tasted like SHIT so I dumped it after a few mouthfuls. Yuck, FML etc.
8. OMIGOD BETH'S VOICE WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS IT DOING TO ME. (Never going to stop listening to this song ever in my life, guys, how does someone sound this sassy and incredible and DIFFERENT ASKDFHALDHASDA. I am never going to stop pimping or talking about the awesome 15-second closing note, so you might as well download it if you don't already know what I'm talking about.) In any case, I am starting to plot my theatre schedule. At the rate I am going I will be back at the Westside Theatre, like, four times over two weeks. EXCESSIVE MUCH? Or AWESOME? *cries*