messed up movies and feeling like a mom
good day, today. i finally got a full, uh, day's sleep, which was great. and i got movies from adgy in the mail, which means i've finally seen the big lebowski. and it was super cool, of course, like all movies by the coen brothers are:) i had a weird moment during that scene in the bowling alley when you first see jesus, and it's all slow motion and everything, because it was very familiar, and i knew i'd seen it recently. then i remembered. when i was at the u of m last week, watching the commericals and music videos and student films before the movie, they showed that clip as part of an ad for the on-campus bowling alley:) i remember watching it at the time, thinking "geez! that is unbelievably good camera work for an on-campus bowling alley ad. they must've hired out." in fact, i think i turned to styletax and said something like that to her. it was also cool to hear the lines that adgy and jayj79 threw back and forth at each other via comments on my lj a few months back. "mark it zero, dude!" oh, ok:) i get it now. but yeah, thanks adg. it was great stuff.
he also sent me four other movies, just to fill out the box. i watched audition tonight. it's a japanese horror movie. for the first half hour or more, i honestly thought it was a romantic comedy, and i couldn't figure out why adg would send me a romantic comedy. that's so not his style. but i vaguely remembered mrstroppy reviewing the movie on his lj, and i thought maybe this was the one he said was slow at first, but the last half hour totally and completely made up for it. man alive, did it ever! what a trippy, messed up movie:) seriously. definetly the type of movie to make you flinch and jump and think about hiding your eyes, although (for me, at least) it wasn't scary. but it'd be cool to make a soundclip of when she keeps saying "deeper! deeper!" (dukka dukka dukka!) and use it on my computer, somewhere.
i went to a graduation reception today too--christin's. everytime i look at her, i just feel so proud. isn't that weird? random girl i babysat half a dozen, maybe a dozen times max, when she was really almost too old to need a babysitter and had a brother who was definetly old enough to watch her himself. but for the past couple years, i've just been struck, every time i see her, by how she's grown up. even moreso than with the kids i've known longer, and used to babysit more. i think it's because she seems more adult than a lot of high school graduates do. she has poise and grace and humor... hard to believe she's the little girl who would beg her mom to have me babysit her when it was rainy, because she was so deathly afraid of thunderstorms. she would cry, i remember. now she tells me she wants to major in german (she grew up in germany) and intercultural communication so she can work at the embassy in germany someday. when i hugged her today, she beamed at me and said, "it seems like just yesterday i was at your graduation reception!" no kidding it does.
the other favorite girl of mine who's graduating was there with her family, too. her reception's tomorrow. i went over to talk to marie (her mom) and heidi (her younger sister). this is the family i've always known, because we grew up going to the same babysitter. then when i was old enough, i began babysitting for all four of the kids in that family. i was the babysitter they always requested until emily (the oldest) was old enough to watch them herself. three of the four are in high school now, and one's in junior high. i eventually got to be closer to heidi (the third kid) than emily, because heidi came to camp and was in my cabin, so i was her counselor. the family goes to my church, and when heidi got into high school, she joined the church choir just like i had at her age. it's mostly an adult choir. in fact, emily, christin, and heidi all joined. mom (who's also in choir) says they joined to be more like me (it's an adult choir). but i digress. marie, the mom, as i was telling her all about my plans for china, just kept grinning and repeating, "i'm so proud of you, helen!" she must've said it four or five times. i had the experience of seeing how i felt about christin in her as she told me this. it's all left me feeling very... i don't now. just very.
he also sent me four other movies, just to fill out the box. i watched audition tonight. it's a japanese horror movie. for the first half hour or more, i honestly thought it was a romantic comedy, and i couldn't figure out why adg would send me a romantic comedy. that's so not his style. but i vaguely remembered mrstroppy reviewing the movie on his lj, and i thought maybe this was the one he said was slow at first, but the last half hour totally and completely made up for it. man alive, did it ever! what a trippy, messed up movie:) seriously. definetly the type of movie to make you flinch and jump and think about hiding your eyes, although (for me, at least) it wasn't scary. but it'd be cool to make a soundclip of when she keeps saying "deeper! deeper!" (dukka dukka dukka!) and use it on my computer, somewhere.
i went to a graduation reception today too--christin's. everytime i look at her, i just feel so proud. isn't that weird? random girl i babysat half a dozen, maybe a dozen times max, when she was really almost too old to need a babysitter and had a brother who was definetly old enough to watch her himself. but for the past couple years, i've just been struck, every time i see her, by how she's grown up. even moreso than with the kids i've known longer, and used to babysit more. i think it's because she seems more adult than a lot of high school graduates do. she has poise and grace and humor... hard to believe she's the little girl who would beg her mom to have me babysit her when it was rainy, because she was so deathly afraid of thunderstorms. she would cry, i remember. now she tells me she wants to major in german (she grew up in germany) and intercultural communication so she can work at the embassy in germany someday. when i hugged her today, she beamed at me and said, "it seems like just yesterday i was at your graduation reception!" no kidding it does.
the other favorite girl of mine who's graduating was there with her family, too. her reception's tomorrow. i went over to talk to marie (her mom) and heidi (her younger sister). this is the family i've always known, because we grew up going to the same babysitter. then when i was old enough, i began babysitting for all four of the kids in that family. i was the babysitter they always requested until emily (the oldest) was old enough to watch them herself. three of the four are in high school now, and one's in junior high. i eventually got to be closer to heidi (the third kid) than emily, because heidi came to camp and was in my cabin, so i was her counselor. the family goes to my church, and when heidi got into high school, she joined the church choir just like i had at her age. it's mostly an adult choir. in fact, emily, christin, and heidi all joined. mom (who's also in choir) says they joined to be more like me (it's an adult choir). but i digress. marie, the mom, as i was telling her all about my plans for china, just kept grinning and repeating, "i'm so proud of you, helen!" she must've said it four or five times. i had the experience of seeing how i felt about christin in her as she told me this. it's all left me feeling very... i don't now. just very.