*see title of journal*
I am rapidly becoming the most boring person on Earth.
Regular readers will know that I am one of the least frequent updaters ever. This is because, in my natural state, I'm pretty damn boring. However, due to recent events, I am going to become even more boring. Because (short version) I am poor, I recently took on a full time temp job on top of my part-to-full time department store job. This means that this journal is basically going to be dead until I get a real, steady, full time job.
I'm not going to give up knocking off stupid humor pieces until then, but I have to admit that all I want to write is Lord Voldemort Just Wants to Go to Bed Already. So, please, just bear with me.
Go see: Night Watch. Russian supernatural thriller that is just plain awesome. Cool use of special effects that don't overwhelm the plot like some Keanu Reeves vehicles I could name. Best use of subtitles I've ever seen. It's organic, like they were always meant to be part of the movie. Kind of disjointed plot, but that's probably because there is the single movie's plot, and then the plot of the entire trilogy, and they're interwoven. Anyway, real cool.
Go rent: "Walk the Line." Okay, so the plot is every VH1's Behind the Music ever, but love, drugs and rockabilly never get old. And maybe Reese Witherspoon's performance wasn't quite Oscar-worthy, but it's a sure shot better than everything else she's done recently. Anyway, who can say no to two hours of Johnny Cash music as sung by Joaquin Phoenix?
Go read: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, if you haven't already. Totally fascinating, even at over 800 pages. Written like a history of the last (or maybe first new) era of English magic. Awesome use of footnotes; like a real academic text: always building the world. Well drawn characters who remain likeable despite faults, and some seriously well handled subplots. Totally engaging.
Go listen to: The Pretenders. Not for any particularly relevant reason, but just because Chrissy Hines will always rock. Also because the song "Middle of the Road" has a line that sounds like, "I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me."
Regular readers will know that I am one of the least frequent updaters ever. This is because, in my natural state, I'm pretty damn boring. However, due to recent events, I am going to become even more boring. Because (short version) I am poor, I recently took on a full time temp job on top of my part-to-full time department store job. This means that this journal is basically going to be dead until I get a real, steady, full time job.
I'm not going to give up knocking off stupid humor pieces until then, but I have to admit that all I want to write is Lord Voldemort Just Wants to Go to Bed Already. So, please, just bear with me.
Go see: Night Watch. Russian supernatural thriller that is just plain awesome. Cool use of special effects that don't overwhelm the plot like some Keanu Reeves vehicles I could name. Best use of subtitles I've ever seen. It's organic, like they were always meant to be part of the movie. Kind of disjointed plot, but that's probably because there is the single movie's plot, and then the plot of the entire trilogy, and they're interwoven. Anyway, real cool.
Go rent: "Walk the Line." Okay, so the plot is every VH1's Behind the Music ever, but love, drugs and rockabilly never get old. And maybe Reese Witherspoon's performance wasn't quite Oscar-worthy, but it's a sure shot better than everything else she's done recently. Anyway, who can say no to two hours of Johnny Cash music as sung by Joaquin Phoenix?
Go read: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, if you haven't already. Totally fascinating, even at over 800 pages. Written like a history of the last (or maybe first new) era of English magic. Awesome use of footnotes; like a real academic text: always building the world. Well drawn characters who remain likeable despite faults, and some seriously well handled subplots. Totally engaging.
Go listen to: The Pretenders. Not for any particularly relevant reason, but just because Chrissy Hines will always rock. Also because the song "Middle of the Road" has a line that sounds like, "I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me."